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Lillian Nassau LLC of City participated in the dealer Stephen Score indulges his love of color, pat- show for the first time. From left, exhibitors Eric Silver and “We’ve already sold a variety of things, tern and light in the booths he designs for Palm Beach. Arlie Sulka with show organizer Kris Charamonde. including a Fletcher & Gardiner tea and coffee service and an 1840s Chinese Export Macklowe Gallery, Jeff R. Bridgman American Antiques, silver punch bowl,” said Mark McHugh of York County, Penn. Spencer Marks, East Walpole, Mass. Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. Day weekend. We’re glad we time for a glamorous opening Kravis Center and a block as the organizers call them- — Promising reports from the went. night party benefiting the Boys away at City Place, a complex selves, are devoted marketers frontlines of the four-year-old Visitors who were not strand- & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach of upscale shops and restau- who set aside about $1 million Hyland Granby Antiques, Hyannisport, Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & ed by the ice storms that earli- County on Friday, February 16. rants. to promote their fair. Mass., sold its rare campaign sideboard, Antiques Show lured us to the er in the week brought much of In all, the clubs raised close to The Palm Beach Jewelry, Art “We call it integrated market- above left, early in the show. capital of luxe over Presidents’ the country to a halt arrived in $100,000, organizers said. & Antiques Show was open to ing,” Charamonde explains. We can confirm that the gate the general public from Satur- “You get up in the morning and — officially put at 50,000 — day, February 17, through read the paper, which has was extremely good through Tuesday, February, 20. Orga- something in it about our show. James Graham & Sons, New York City the run of the five-day show. nizers Kris Charamonde, Scott You get in your car and onto I- The Palm Beach County Convention Center The Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Diament and Robert Samuels, 95, where you see us on a bill- is the spacious, luxurious setting for the Antiques Show intermittently three certified gemologists board. At the dentist or hair- 200-dealer Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & gets so busy that valets stand with a background in the jew- dresser, you pick up a Antiques Show held each Presidents’ Day in the street turning people elry business, picked Presi- magazine and read about us weekend. The show is just a couple of miles away. In Florida these days, dents’ Day weekend because again. On your way home, you from West Palm Beach airport, making for parking one’s own car is gener- Monday is a national holiday turn on National Public Radio easy in and out. ally not done. For the fleet of and many students have the and you hear about us. We foot, however, there was more week off, so families travel. have hundreds of banners parking across the street at the The Palm Beach Show Group, around the city. You can’t not know about the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show.” The fair sets up in the Palm Beach County Convention Cen- ter, a new, state-of-the-art facil- ity with all the latest ameni- ties. With 100,000 square feet of exhibit space and more than 200 exhibitors, this is a very big show. The quality of exhibitors is generally quite James M. Labaugh Antiques, Pound Ridge, high and, remarkably, there is N.Y. Leon Weiss, Gemini Antiques, Chester, N.J. little overlap in merchandise. Allow plenty of time to see the show and make sure that you Notus, New York City, offered antique Portuguese and have a map. It is easy to miss Brazilian furniture. booths or even entire aisles. Charamonde likes to compare the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show to Maastricht and Art Basel Miami, two high- quality megafairs. Some visi- Alan Granby and Janice Hyland, Hyland Granby Antiques, tors say the Palm Beach Jewel- D. Roger Howlett, Childs Gallery, Boston. Hyannisport, Mass. Courtesy Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & ry, Art & Antiques Show Childs Gallery did well with works by Sally Antiques Show. resembles June Olympia in Michael, aka Mrs Milton Avery, and Henry London in its elegant installa- Botkin. Howlett’s rarest piece, center, was a tion, size, diversity and the Frank Stella canvas painted while the mod- quality of its contents. ern master was at Princeton. Review and Photos by The promoters spend much of Antiques and The Arts Weekly the year visiting other fairs in Laura Beach, Contributing Editor search of exhibitors they believe will make their show interesting. One of our particu- Thomas Colville Fine Art, New Haven, Conn. lar favorites was Notus Gallery Holly Johnson Antiques, Knutsford, UK of New York. The husband and wife dealers Stephen Hurrell and Julie Sherlock specialize in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century art and antiques from Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show organizers Portugal and its former Robert Samuels, Scott Diament and Kris Charamonde. colonies, especially Brazil. It is an area that very few other American dealers have tackled Palm Beach and one where some outstand- ing bargains still exist. The Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show was lucky this year to have leading Tiffany specialists Lillian Nas- sau LLC from New York. Owner and expert Arlie Sulka has been integral to the big Tiffany exhibitions in New York this spring and is helping to present “Designing Women: David Showmaker, Elizabeth Flower and Peter Tillou, Peter American Women in the Deco- Betsy Craig and Ira Spanierman of Spanier- Tillou Fine Art & Antiques, Litchfield, Connn. Courtesy rative Arts, 1875–1915” at the Nakkas Fine Rugs & Textiles, Istanbul, man Gallery, New York City. Courtesy Palm Michael Teller, T.K. Asian Antiquities, Williamsburg, Va. Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show. New-York Historical Society. In Spanierman Gallery, New York City Turkey Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show www.AntiquesandTheArts.com www.AntiquesandTheArts.com 48 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — March 30, 2007 March 30, 2007 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 49

“I’ve sold a ton of paintings here over the past three years,” said New York dealer Alexander Acevedo. The talk of The Caldwell Gallery, Manlius, N.Y. Alexander Gallery’s booth was this monumental canvas by Rosa Bonheur. Acevedo was in intense negotiations on the M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans, La. seven-figure canvas on the fair’s third day. Palm Beach Richard Cook and William Cook of William A.B. Levy Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Fla. Courtesy Palm Jacques de Vos Galllery, Paris Cook, Marlborough, UK Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show. by Sally Michael (1902–2003), wife of painter Milton Avery, keeping with the select materi- ensuring that this year’s Palm area. Even Winter Antiques influence the way people col- build the fine art of the compo- and works by Henry Botkin, a als offered at the show, Lillian Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show chairman Arie Kopelman lect and decorate. Many nent of the fair, which boasts a Boston artist who was the Nassau Gallery will also stage Show was a serious venue for was spotted on the floor this exhibitors, including Score, worthy contingent of American cousin of . a comprehensive exhibition of American Art Nouveau design. year. chose lighter, brighter palettes fine art specialists. There is no Childs Gallery’s centerpiece Tiffany lamps “that demon- Many leading dealers from “There are lots of nice people than they would for their precise agreement on which was a student work by Frank strate the full range of Louis the well-established trading here, old-time Palm Beach peo- booths at home. A highlight of paintings sell the best here, Stella from his Princeton days. Comfort Tiffany’s (1848–1933) grounds of the Northeast ple who are very knowledge- Score’s stand was “Sunset though light, loose palettes and “We brought more traditional genius,” according to Sulka. exhibit here. They say they are able and love beautiful things,” Sail,” a delicate pastel on paper marine themes are safe bets. paintings than modern ones. The exhibition will take place always surprised at how many said Boston dealer Stephen by Theodore Wendel, who stud- “Half of my sales have been to We’ve sold a few things,” said at the East 57th Street gallery of their customers from Score, who sees in Boston and ied with Monet in Giverny. existing clients, half to new New York dealer Vincent Val- in Manhattan and will be open Boston, New York, Philadel- Palm Beach a common love of The Palm Beach audience customers,” said Connecticut larino, fresh from an excellent through June 14. phia and Washington either traditional design. appreciates paintings. With dealer Thomas Colville. “Peo- showing in Los Angeles. Lillian Nassau LLC joined have homes in Palm Beach or Florida’s persistent warmth, that in mind, the organizers ple like American Impression- The usual bell curve applied Macklowe Gallery of New York, are simply vacationing in the light and abundant flora does have worked assiduously to ist and Modern paintings here. to sales, which seemed to be “They are crazy about Wyeth here,” said Portland, Maine, They aren’t so keen on Euro- across the full range of special- dealer Tom Veilleux, who arrayed works by Jamie Wyeth, pean and Hudson River School ties. Warren Wheelock, William Zorach, Rockwell Kent and canvases.” Hyland Granby Antiques of Thomas Wilmer Dewing. John Howard at Heritage, Woodstock, UK “I’ve sold a ton of paintings Hyannisport, Mass., sold a here over the past three years,” large, rare campaign sideboard said Leon Weiss of Gemini which acquired ShaDor Man- square feet. Our goal is to get show at Navy Pier in Chicago said New York dealer Alex early in the show, and silver Antiques, who joined Ameri- agement a year and a half ago, 600 dealers. Attendance was for 2008. Acevedo, in the midst of negoti- dealers Spencer Gordon and cana specialists such as Diana is returning for a second time 30,000 last year. We hope it The Palm Beach Jewelry, Art ations with a French client on Mark McHugh said that they Bittel, Jeff Bridgman and to the Baltimore Summer will be 50,000 this year,” said & Antiques Show will return to a seven-figure equestrian can- had done very well, selling Roberto Freitas. “We’ve sold a Antiques Show, set for Labor Charamonde, urging all the Palm Beach County Con- vas by Rosa Bonheur. pieces in the $1,000 to $25,000 painting, three sculptures, a Day weekend, August 30–Sep- Antiques and The Arts Weekly vention Center February “I love this show. I’ve already range and shipping to five weathervane and three tember 2. readers to visit. 15–19, 2008. signed next year’s contract,” states. mechanical banks.” “We’ve expanded the Balti- Palm Beach Show Group is For information, 561-822-5440 said Maine dealer Tom Veil- “This is our first time here,” The Palm Beach Show Group, more show. We have 250,000 also contemplating a major or www.palmbeachshow.com. lieux, who arrayed works by William Zorach, Rockwell Kent and Jamie Wyeth. ‘Bedford Decorates’ Returns To “It’s been a very good show for WWW.RAFAELOSONAAUCTION.COM us,” said Roger Howlett of  Ita Howe Gallery, Ming and early Qing porcelain, Bethle- Childs Gallery. The Boston Bedford Spring Antiques Show hem, Penn. dealer sold colorful paintings BEDFORD, N.Y. — The Bed- available at the door for $100. 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