MADAM – The Virtual Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair ended last Sunday (May 31) and we are now busy trying to gauge the short-term results. The main reason for putting it on was always to give all the exhibitors, who missed out on the real fair, a platform in May, and I am really touched by the many lovely messages sent to thank me and the team for our efforts.
We were also really grateful to receive a huge amount of support from the dealer associations, the trade press, independent journalists, our media partners, the National Trust and last but not least, fellow fair organisers.
Reports about sales are patchy (although experience tells us that dealers aren’t always happy to come forward about their individual fair successes) and we can’t boast some magic surge over the 17-day run of the online show, but we can see traffic to individual dealers’ websites and, as usual, those who really made a big effort reaped the rewards.