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Gloucester Antiques Centre News and Events

 

National Antiques Week - August 10th 2010

NATIONAL ANTIQUES WEEK 2010

15-21 November

National Antiques Week is co-ordinated by Antiques news and Fairs working with a group  of media and antique dealers’ associations who pool their resources to promote the event on behalf of the antiques trade.

THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE GROUP IS:

To promote the antiques trade to the public and to encourage a younger audience to visit antiques shops and fairs.

The theme for 2010 will be “Now is the time to buy antiques” developing the theme of 2009 which was “Antiques are Green” .

The publicity campaign for National Antiques Week, starting in the summer of 2010, will demonstrate and celebrate the green credentials of antiques in addition to what excellent value for money antiques represent when compared to similar or equivalent high street purchases.

The date of National Antiques Week 2010 has been arranged to coincide with The Winter Fine Art and Antiques Fair at Olympia from 15-21 November www.olympia-antiques.co.uk and Clarion Events, organisers of this prestigious event have graciously offered to sponsor National Antiques Week and to integrate National Antiques Week into their events programme at the Winter Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair.

Antiques news and Fairs will publish full details of all National Antiques Week events and promotions in July 2010.

www.nationalantiquesweek.co.uk

 

Monthly Newsletter - 20th May 2010

To supplement our website, we are sending out a regular email newsletter providing updates on interesting items in the centre, new dealers and events. Please click here to subscribe.

 

Join us on Facebook - 8th Feb 10

You can now follow Gloucester Antiques Centre on Facebook. For the latest updates, featured items and antique related discussions please visit our Facebook page.

 

Customers can now buy online from GAC - 11th Dec 09

 

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website. The new website allows customers to buy Antiques from the centre online. Customers can purchase via the website and have antiques and collectables shipped to them directly. If customers prefer, they can also purchase from the website and collect goods purchased from the centre.

Stephen Zacaroli, General Manager of Gloucester Antiques Centre said: “This is a significant step forward for us, our dealers and our customers. The ability to transact online is something which is now taken for granted in many areas of business, but Antiques Dealers do tend to lag a bit behind in adoption of new technologies. This brings us bang up to date and allows customers from all over the UK and Worldwide to purchase from us.”

Evan Maindonald, Director of Gloucester Antiques Centre said : “Since we bought Gloucester Antiques Centre in 2006, we have focused on streamlining and modernising the way it operates in order to improve the service and value we deliver to our customers. Our new website is an important step forward in achieving this. We intend to continue to develop the website as a platform to enable customer to purchase a wide range of Antiques from our dealers.”

While all of the stock at the centre is not yet loaded onto the website, new items are being added all the time. The range of items on the new website provides an interesting taste of what is available at the centre.

 

 

Gloucester Antiques Centre helps care home residents take trip down memory lane- 4th Dec 09 

Residents of three care homes in Gloucestershire are now able to take a trip down memory lane thanks to a new initiative by Blanchworth Care Homes and Gloucester Antiques Centre.

Three Blanchworth care homes, Astley House in Cheltenham, Church Court in Stroud and Breadstone House near Berkeley have each redecorated and furnished a sitting room in the style of the 1940s to encourage residents to rekindle their memories from when they were younger.

The idea came from Linda McNee, Director of Nursing at the UK-wide care home group, as a way to enhance the daily lives of residents, and the company turned to Gloucester Antique Centre to bring their idea to life.

Antiques Centre General Manager, Stephen Zacaroli, said: “It was a wonderful project to work on.  We were asked to source a range of items from 1940 through to 1952, covering most of the Second World War period and beyond, to just before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.  This was a time of austerity when every item in the home would have had a practical use – and we were able to provide practically everything.”

The team at Gloucester Antique Centre were so keen to help that they researched the era in depth, even holding a private viewing evening for Blanchworth staff.

Tony Foxwell, care home manager at Astley House in Cheltenham, reports that most items are authentic, but new drapes and new sofas has to be ordered to comply with modern regulations.   “We are as authentic as health and safety legislation will allow,” he said.

In each of the rooms there are tables, chairs and many items from an era now almost unimaginable for many people under sixty.   There are no televisions, computers and few of the modern amenities that many people regard as standard today.

According to Tony, many residents are really enjoying the room.  “It is helping to bring back sometimes long-forgotten but happy memories,” he said.

For Gloucester Antiques Centre, it was great opportunity to contribute to a project which could make a real difference to people’s lives.

“We are used to sourcing period pieces for TV period dramas, such as the BBC’s Cranford,” said Stephen.   “But this was an opportunity to bring an era back to life for those who lived through it – so we had an excellent reference point to ensure that all of the pieces were in line with the appropriate period.”

 

Gloucester Antique Centre takes on new General Manager - 14th Sep 09

With turnover having doubled and a list of dealers waiting to take space in the newly-relocated Gloucester Antiques Centre, a new General Manager has been appointed to cope with the increase in business.

Stephen Zacaroli (known as Zac), will join Gloucester Antique Centre on Monday 14 September, from Worcester Antique Centre which he set up in 1991 and has run for the last nineteen years.

Evan Maindonald, who owns Gloucester Antiques Centre, said: “We’re delighted to add someone with Zac’s expertise to our staff. It will releive the pressure on our existing management team who have been working incredibly hard since we relocated to Gloucester Quays in July, and enable us to make the most of our new premises."

Zac first saw the new Antiques Centre when he was visiting Gloucester Quays Designer Outlet Centre this summer. Zac said "My first thought was ‘wow’, and my second was, ‘I want to work there’.”

Zac has had a life-long love of Antiques, which started with his great-grandmother’s collection of Victorian porcelain, much of which is now in his possession.

“My specialist knowledge lies particularly in English porcelain, silver, glass, clocks and period watches, jewellery, furniture and Decorative Arts, especially Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movements”, he says, but having run an antiques centre for almost 20 years, there are few antique eras that Zac doesn’t have experience of.

 

 We are now open at Gloucester Quays - 15th July 2009

It’s has been a very busy time in the last six months planning our move to Gloucester Quays. The last month, in particular, has been manic. However, we are now open in the new building and it is fantastic. Everyone has been extremely complimentary about the location, the quality of the fit out and the general appearance of the new centre.

A number of new dealers have joined us and the general quality of our stock is vastly improved. We encourage you to visit us, browse the centre and have a bite to eat in our cafe overlooking the Docks. Our first day has been very busy and we are very happy with the way things are going in the new centre so far. We will shortly update the website with more pictures of the new centre and details of our new dealers.

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