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Green Park Road, Bath, BA1 1JB.
8am-4pm. Free. 07711 900095;
vintageandantiques.co.uk
28th-29th Shepton Mallet
Antiques, Vintage & Collectors
Fair, Royal Bath and West Showground,
Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 6QN.
9am-1pm Friday, 9am-5pm
Saturday. £10 Friday, £5 Saturday.
01636 702326; iacf.co.uk
East
2nd Copdock Monthly Antiques
& Collectors Fair, The Best Western
TALKING SHOP
Ipswich Hotel, Old London Road,
Copdock, Suffolk, IP8 3JD. 9am-3.30pm.
£2. 01702 410171; gnbfairs.com
Eesome 8th-9th St Ives Antiques Fair,
Burgess Hall (One Leisure), Westwood
Road, St Ives, Cambs, PE27 6WU.
Hana Bauman-Lyons chats to us about her online shop, Eesome, 10am-4pm Saturday, 9am-3pm Sunday.
which specialises in vintage ceramics from around Europe £2.50. 01480 896866;
stivesantiquesfair.co.uk
9th Antiques & Collectors Fair,
How did Eesome begin? big trips to Europe each year – part Sarratt Village Hall, The Green, Sarratt,
Eesome started as a hobby four years sourcing, part exploration, part travel. Herts, WD3 6AS. 9.30am-4pm. £1.
ago. It was a side project to keep me 07887 648255; marcelfairs.co.uk
inspired in my unfulfilling work life. The What price range can we expect? 16th Ware Vintage Fair, The
inspiration for it was a combination of my Keeping a broad price range has always Drill Hall, 17 Amwell End, Ware,
interest in ceramics and design, my love been important. We sell small practical Hertfordshire, SG12 9HP. 10.30am-4pm.
of travel, my desire to do something that pieces of studio pottery from around £20, £2. 07519 276507; haddonevents.co.uk
impacted positively on the planet, and my up to bigger statement pieces and 22nd-23rd Long Melford Antique
drive to work for myself doing something I antiques in the high hundreds. We have and Vintage Fair, The Old School,
love. The development of Eesome was an a wide range of customers, so we like to Long Melford, Suffolk, CO10 9DX.
organic process, learning as I went. offer something for every pocket. 9.30am-4pm. £1. 01449 740601;
facebook.com/longmelfordfairs
What products do you sell? What do you regularly stock? 23rd Antiques, Retro, Vintage &
We predominantly sell ceramics from My favourite pieces are the one-off items Collectors Fair, Brentwood Centre,
across Europe – everything from made by unknown or small-scale Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood, Essex,
mid-century Scandinavian pieces (such as craftspeople, studio potters and CM15 9NN. 9am-4pm. £3.50 (£5
the Noomi Backhausen plate for Soholm) designer-makers over the past few before 10am). 01702 410171;
and British studio pottery, to provincial decades. These are very special pieces gnbfairs.com
utilitarian ware (such as the large olive that have a handmade quality and
pots we recently brought back from a charm you cannot reproduce.
Greece) and unglazed terracotta
cookware from Italy and France. Although What is it like to run Eesome? Central
our items are sourced from different As we sell online and our pieces are little,
countries and span different ages, they we are able to keep a lot of stock in a 9th Malvern Flea & Collectors Fair,
have a common aesthetic of earthy tones, small space, which has been useful for Three Counties Showground, Malvern,
raw textures and elegant forms, as well the growth of the business. Selling online Worcs, WR13 6NW. 7.30am-3.30pm.
as a handmade quality. has a lot of pros, but when dealing in £5. 01636 676531; b2bevents.info
such tactile pieces, it’s important to have 16th Biggleswade Antiques
How do you source the items? a place where people can come and see & Vintage Fair, The Weatherley
It starts with a lot of research. I like to them in person. We tackle this by running Centre, Eagle Farm Road, Biggleswade,
understand the history of ceramic regular pop-ups. Plans to open our own Bedfordshire, SG18 8JH. 10am-4pm. £2.
production in an area before I visit, so I shop are in the making. 01480 382432; madisonevents.co.uk
know exactly what to look for. I do a few eesomeshop.com 16th St Albans Antique and
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