Put an Ikea book shelf in your room and you'll call it furniture. Put an antique, bizarrely unique chest in the same room and hey, it's statement art. We don't tend to go for cool pieces of furniture any more (mostly because of the price) but I remember growing up and playing in my elderly neighbour, Auntie Milly's house. It was a wondrous treasure trove of unique lamps, beautiful cupboards and quirky little things like a weather barometer. It's a way of decorating without planting a painting on your wall.
I went along to this Decorative Fair in Battersea Park (which just so happens to run three times a year) because an advertisement in the Evening Standard offered one free entry. It's with no doubt one for the posh folks. Visitors can bring their dogs along and you'll see them wondering around having minor feuds with other pretty little dogs. But don't let that stop you from going. If you like the pictures below there's more where that came from.
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Name: The Spring Decorative Arts Fair
When: 23 - 18th April 2013
Where: Battersea Park, London, SW11 4NJ
Room Count: 1 with around 140 exhibitors
Standard ticket price: £10 each on the door, includes a catalogue which allows free re-entry
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