About Us

Hello! Welcome to M D Cannell Antiques.
We are a unique Antiques and Interiors business dealing in beautiful hand selected Antiques and artifacts from the UK and Europe and specialising Persian Rugs, Salvage, decorative items established in Norfolk over 35 years ago specialising.
OPEN BY LUCK or APPOINTMENT
and Friday – Sunday.

We are also home to the annual Raveningham Sculpture Trail which welcomes between 5000 – 8000 visitors every summer to experience original sculpture and art installations in our 3 acre wild and tame gardens.

“Sometimes the objects themselves are folklore and sometimes it’s where they have been found. “Many of the stories of old antique dealers have become folklore in a trade which relies more than most on anecdotes.”

Mal Cannell began buying and selling from the age of 16 (tomatoes and glass bottles!) and comes from a long line of Cannells who have made their home in Norwich & Norfolk since the English Civil War. For half a century he has specialised in trading in antiques, rugs, decorative objects and textiles from Europe and further afield. He has shops at The Raveningham Centre and at Bayfield Hall, near Holt, supplies shops across the UK and has been featured in national publications and on Channel 4. His customers include interior designers, royalty and those with an eye for the beautiful or unusual. 

Mal is also a traditional folk singer with a keen interest in folklore customs and runs his own folk club in Raveningham. He has adventured with renowned folklorist and friend Jennifer Westwood and recorded an album of poetry to raise money for charities as well as writing for the Marshlore Zine.

“In the antique rug trade, we say: ‘the rugs are free it’s the stories that cost the money…So I will keep telling the stories and some will turn to folklore.” Mal Cannell (M D Cannell Antiques).