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Putting on a beano

THE first summer Olympia art and antiques fair since 2019, which takes place on June 22-26, will be rather smaller than in the past with about 60 exhibitors, but there are some encouraging first-timers and the quality looks reassuringly high.

Lennox Cato of Edenbridge, Kent, is a first-time Olympian and will be one of several dealers offering particularly good examples of Regency furniture. This pair of very elegant chairs in the Roman taste dates from about 1810 and

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