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FLOCKING to FLORIDA FEATURED ARTICLE ❯❯ Page 16-26 AMERICA: A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT antiquestradegazette.com FLOCKING TO FLORIDA FEATURED ARTICLE ❯❯ Page 16-26 BITES FROM THE BIG APPLE FAIRS & AUCTIONS IN NEW YORK ❯❯ Pages 4-10 BIDDING DATES FOR THE DIARY US AUCTION CALENDAR ❯❯ Pages 23-26 Courtesy of The Travel Channel. 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PAGE 003 2225 BLEED US.indd 1 15/01/2016 09:40:29 antiques trade gazette antiques trade gazette User: INITIALS Issue No: 0000 Issue Date: 00/00/15 File Name: IE01- PROOFED: User: INITIALS Issue No: 0000 Issue Date: 00/00/15 File Name: IE01- PROOFED: 4 antiquestradegazette.com Antiques Trade Gazette 5 new york Braving the elements for the bright WINTER ANTIQUES SHOW: MEET THE EXHIBITORS lights of New York’s shows and sales n The Winter Antiques Show and Old Masters under the spotlight early in 2016 Anne Crane & Anna Brady report ELLE SHUSHAN JUST as countries have Shushan is a specialist in portrait miniatures their seasons, so does the based in Philadelphia and has exhibited at the WAS for 17 years. Commercially it has always art market – and it often served her well, “or at least well enough”, follows meteorological but just as important is that this “elegant, fluctuations. innovative” fair is simply “so much fun”. It has the advantage of The Metropolitan Increasingly, New York is seen as Museum of Art located on its doorstep: the place where the action is in the “Having the largest and most diverse museum first months of the year. in the world within walking distance is an The city draws collectors and irresistible magnet.” dealers from across the US and Shushan also exhibits at Masterpiece further afield to take part as buyers London, one of more than a dozen dealers and sellers in a roster of events that who do both events yet, she says, they are very are staged at a time when much of different. “The Winter show is 61 years old, has Europe is in one of its fallow periods. WINTER ANTIQUES SHOW Above: a view of last year’s 73 exhibitors and a museum loan show in a very The January focus on the Big When New York’s Winter Antiques Show New York Winter Antiques Show. compact, historic space. Everything about seven- Apple has grown up around the (WAS), grande dame of the US fairs year-old Masterpiece is new and grand, with Winter Antiques Show, which has scene, was established back in 1955, the Right: a nest of pine hand- more than 160 exhibitors, four restaurants and been bringing buyers to town for exhibitors were entirely from the US. painted signwriter’s pigment a sculpture garden.” But “both are exuberant, more than 60 years. Jump to the 1980s and American drawers, inscribed with initials and must-see events, both at the top of their game”. A series of related events have antiques proliferated. Americana date 1924, from Peterborough in What sort of visitors does WAS attract? coalesced around this venerable fair, Week was born as the auction houses Cambridgeshire, England. “Because the first four days of the winter show ranging from the big Americana scheduled their Americana sales to The 4ft 1in (1.24m) wide piece coincide with the Americana auctions, and the auctions to a specialist ceramics fair coincide. will be at the Winter Antiques show is about one-third Americana dealers, and more general shows. Today, while not deserting its Show with Robert Young dedicated collectors and curators of all things More recently, late January and Americana roots, WAS reflects a global Antiques priced at $12,000. American fill the show to overflowing through early February have put Old Masters market by increasingly catering to the first weekend. under the spotlight. They feature international tastes, as its 61st run at the “Additionally, European curators and major series in the auction houses Park Avenue Armory will attest. swelled recently and in 2015 six of the and beneficiary is a not-for-profit collectors are at the fair all week between and a trail of selling shows devoted WAS has further diversified this year by nine new exhibitors were from London, organisation: the East Side House viewing the Old Masters sales and Master to Old Master drawings staged in dropping its 1969 dateline entirely to allow including Daniel Crouch Rare Books, Settlement, a charity which provides Drawings week. Then there are the New Manhattan’s galleries by resident contemporary material, accommodating a Apter-Fredericks, H Blairman & Sons and social services in the south Bronx. Yorkers – by definition enthusiastic shoppers and ‘guest’ dealers, many of whom group of new design dealers such as Todd Bowman Sculpture. All return in 2016. Though benefitting from a loyal – for whom the show has been an annual have decamped from London for Merrill Studio Contemporary. “I love it: where else would you want exhibitor and visitor base, the latter adventure for generations.” the occasion. They are among the dozen to be in January?” says Claire Brown of travelling from across the US for this key For the first time this year, thanks to the So there is plenty to tempt the new exhibitors for 2016, who also London antiquities specialists Rupert social occasion, WAS is not immune to dropping of the fair’s dateline, Shushan will visitor to brave the sometimes hostile include Michael Altman Fine Art (New Wace, exhibitors for 15 years. “It’s a very challenges. Foremost, says Sweeney Singer, exhibit the work of living artists alongside her elements of a New York winter and York), Galerie St Etienne (New York), successful fair for us, oddly I suppose as are “the costs of producing a premier, ten- period miniatures, namely the work of Bettina venture into the bright lights of the Thomas Heneage Art Books (London), it’s mainly known for Americana. day show in New York City, the relevance von Zwehl, a London photographer who saleroom or showroom. Over the Kagedo Japanese Art (Washington) “The attendance is consistently good, of ‘antiques’ for the next generations, and shoots portraits in miniature. next ten pages ATG gives a snapshot and Sylvia Powell Decorative Arts, an people can still walk when it snows, and the art world’s focus on contemporary art.” of what the auction houses and art pottery specialist who is one of 17 our American clients seem appreciative It is fortunate, though, to retain its dealers have set out on their stalls to exhibitors from the UK. that we make the effort to go to them.” location for 2016. The Park Avenue coax prospective purchasers to open This British contingent in particular has Executive director Catherine Sweeney Armory hosts numerous art and antiques their wallets and pocketbooks. Singer thinks this year’s 73-strong exhibitor shows throughout the year. But over And for those who have made list is the most diverse yet and disciplines the Christmas period the New York Below left: Babylonian marble frog it across the Pond and are familiar exhibited for the first time include Post reported that the New York Art, weight dating to c.2nd Millennium BC, 4 with those seasonal fluctuations, Contemporary Chinese painting and Antique & Jewellery Show will lose its x 5¾in (9.8 x 14.7cm), carved the New York chill is swiftly Picasso ceramics. November slot in 2016 to make way from a pale pink marble, followed by the balmier Interior designers in the US are powerful for an expanded programme of live priced in the region climes of Palm Beach as tastemakers. Keen to strengthen alliances, performance events. Whether this will be of $60,000 from the traditional buying the WAS has enlisted a group of honorary the only fair to be dropped by the city’s Rupert Wace trail makes its way down design chairs to lend their support: Nate key venue is yet to be seen. at the Winter south for the Florida fairs Berkus, Ellie Cullman, Alexa Hampton and WAS runs from January 22-31 with a Antiques season. Markham Roberts. preview on January 21. Show. Unusually, the WAS founder, owner n winterantiquesshow.com PAGE 004-5, 8-10 2225 US.indd 2 15/01/2016 09:41:22 antiques trade gazette User: INITIALS Issue No: 0000 Issue Date: 00/00/15 File Name: IE01- PROOFED: 4 antiquestradegazette.com Antiques Trade Gazette 5 new york WINTER ANTIQUES SHOW: MEET THE EXHIBITORS Whisk(e)y and wellies: surviving the Braving the elements for the bright freezing Big Apple in January THOUGH December was unseasonably mild in a whole roast chicken” on snowy evenings after lights of New York’s shows and sales New York, the big cold snap may yet still come. a long day’s work.
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