Website: http://www.eco.co.ukYesterday ABJ and I went to visit the London Fine Art Fair at Olympia exhibition centre. ABJ had managed to secure a free day-pass for two people for the fair so we turned up and saved a total of £22 in ticket prices. The exhibition centre was built in 1885 as a dedicated exhibition centre. It is not, as I had thought, a transformed train station...
After getting our bags searched we entered the cavernous exhibition space. It was a breath-taking first-impression - the huge expanse of girders was painted white and extended high above us:
We walked thoroughly around the ground floor looking at the hundreds of different stalls along the way. We've both been to similar exhibitions and we both felt that this was was very quiet. Despite it being mid-afternoon on a Saturday there were very few people around and every stall looked pretty deserted of customers.
We saw lots of interesting things, many of them not things I would classify as "fine art". We saw suites of armour:
as well as stalls selling exquisite fossils, retro film posters, furniture, even cold-war era binoculars... There were also a few paintings and sculptures, the kind of thing I would expect.After snooping around the ground floor we ascended a flight of stairs to "The Orangery" and did a circuit up there. After I was hit by a hay-fever sneezing fit we continued on our way and took in the birds-eye view:
By this time we'd decided that everything was way out of our price range, so we left. ABJ had to have her bag searched again, even though it's far too small to steal anything that was on sale...We saw a cute car on the outside:
Summary: Good to finally see the interior of the Olympia exhibition centre.
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