For the first time, FAB Paris, France’s flagship art, antiques, and jewellery fair, which takes place at the Grand Palais from September 20-24, 2025, will be opening its doors to classic car dealers.
FAB Paris announced today that its fourth annual fair will take place from 20 until 24 September 2025 at the Grand Palais and, for the first time, will include classic car dealers, enriching the mix on display with a category that has consistently been in the top three of alternative investments over the last ten years.
Louis de Bayser, President of FAB Paris, said, “This forthcoming edition of the fair marks a great new chapter in its development. For the first time, a new collecting category – classic cars, art on wheels – will be welcomed to our September event, a wonderful month for the arts in Paris, with international collectors, curators and tourists converging on the city to take advantage of all it has to offer.”
Holding the event in September strategically positions the fair right at the start of Paris’ autumn art season.
One hundred internationally renowned art and antique dealers, representing over 20 categories in the fields of fine art, furniture, antiquities, and jewellery, will convene under the spectacular glass dome of the Grand Palais.
For the occasion, French designer Constance Guisset has created a masterful scenography that responds to the architecture of Paris’s Art Nouveau landmark and showcases her signature use of colours and light.
FAB Paris 2025 will offer 100 Internationally-renowned Galleries
Eminent art dealers who contributed to the reputation of the fair and its predecessor, the venerable Biennale des Antiquaires, will return. Among them are Aaron, Steinitz, Léage, Xavier Eeckhout, Applicat-Prazan, Berès, Yann Ferrandin, Kevorkian, Rumbler, David Lévy, La Présidence, Sismann, Dina Vierny, Von Vertes, Alexis Pentcheff and Jean-Christophe Charbonnier.
They will be joined by equally illustrious newcomers, including the leading Parisian Art Deco gallery Vallois; Galerie Perrin, an authority in French 18th-century fine art; the Belgian art dealer Patrick Derom who specialises in modern movements from Symbolism to Pop Art; Galerie Mendes, reputed for its expertise in 16th to 19th -century French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese paintings; Sarah Sauvin, young specialist in fine prints by old and modern masters and two specialists in antique and vintage jewellery, VKD Jewels (Amsterdam and Milan) and the French Maison Riondet.
Under the leadership of contemporary art gallerist Georges-Philippe Vallois, a group of art dealers will collaborate in an unprecedented joint exhibition. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, the former director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou and Kunsthalle Bern, the show will be staged in a dedicated 140-square-meter space within the fair.
Testament to Martin’s approach to showing art beyond historical and cultural categories, the exhibition will feature tribal (Claes), medieval, Renaissance (Brimo de Laroussilhe) and contemporary art (Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois) alongside rare books and manuscripts (Stéphane Clavreuil). All the works have been selected for their formal resemblance.
Georges-Philippe Vallois commented, “FAB Paris is the only fair in France representing our respective disciplines to the highest level”.
The Musée Nissim de Camondo in the Spotlight
Building on its longstanding relationships with France’s most renowned museums and private institutions, FAB Paris will host a special exhibition dedicated to the Musée Nissim de Camondo’s superlative collection of 18th-century French decorative art.
Located in a magnificent hotel particulier in the heart of Paris, the museum opened its doors in 1936, following the death of French banker and art collector Moïse de Camondo (1860- 1935).
The French Count bequeathed his home and collection to the French State to honour his son, Nissim, a fighter pilot who died in World War I. With the museum closed for renovation until 2026, the exhibition will be a unique opportunity to discover treasures which have not left the home of their last custodian for the past 90 years.
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