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Offering an abundant array of extraordinary works, the 59^th Annual Winter Antiques Show, January 25-February 3, 2013, is a showcase for collectors and enthusiasts alike. The seventy-three exhibitors have brought rare and aesthetically striking material from ancient Greece and Rome through to the modern period. Visitors will see exquisite works of art by leading artists such as John Singer Sargent and James Buttersworth, fine jewelry and portrait miniatures, elegant traditional furniture with classic design or fanciful painted surfaces nearby modern furniture by leaders in their field such as Wendell Castle. The variety of material is evident when booths that face one another hold within whimsical examples of folk art or elegantly engraved suits of armor. This is a fully vetted show and is unsurpassed in America.

This year's loan exhibit, "Newport: The Glamour of Ornament," features collections from the Preservation Society of Newport County. Primary among the art is Giovanni Boldini’s Elizabeth Drexel Lehr (1905), whose crimson gown captivates all who see her (and is also the cover of our 13^th Anniversary issue).

The Winter Antiques Show is an annual benefit for East Side Settlement House.  For more information visit  www.winterantiquesshow.com

Kicking off New York City’s 2013 “Americana Week” show schedule is The New York Ceramics Fair (January 23–27), with an opening night preview party on January 22. At the Bohemian National Hall (321 East 73rd Street) for the third year in a row, the Ceramics Fair brings together forty galleries from England, Europe, and across the US. Offerings include porcelain, pottery, glass, cloisonné and enamels, as well as an educational lecture series. Visit www.caskeylees.com.

The Metro Show NYC opens its second year at the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W. 18th Street) with a preview reception January 23 and extends through January 27. This year the show recasts the “A” word (antiques) into the now trendy Historical Design. New dealers include Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts and Fred Giampietro Gallery. The Metro Show welcomes Editions | Artists’ Book Fair to the adjoining building. Visit www.metroshownyc.com or call 800.563.7632.

Opening on January 25 and running through the 27, Antiques at the Armory, Lexington Avenue at 26th street, 69th Regiment Armory, features one-hundred select exhibitors of American & European antiques, period furniture, Americana, folk art, garden and architectural artifacts, fine art and prints, and much more. Shuttle service is available between the Armory show and the Winter
Antiques Show. Visit www.stellashows.com or call 973.808.5015.

Opening the evening of January 24 with a gala preview to benefit East Side House Settlement, the Winter Antiques Show, 67th and Park Avenue, marks its 59th year as the most prestigious antiques
show in the country. Through February 1, seventy-five exhibitors will offer works from antiquity through the 1960s with one-third of the show’s exhibitors specializing in Americana with the rest featuring English, European, and Asian fine and decorative arts. This year’s loan exhibit features “Newport: the Glamour of Ornament,” celebrating The Preservation Society of Newport County. Popular lectures relating to the exhibition and the Expert Eye series are held through the duration of the show. Among the new exhibitors is Allan Katz Americana. Visit www.winterantiquesshow.com or call 718.292.7392.

Though after Americana Week, be sure to visit Outsider Art Fair at Center 548, 548 West 22nd Street in Chelsea, from February 1–3 with a preview party January 31. Under new ownership (Wide Open Arts), the fair celebrates its twenty-first year. Visit www.outsiderartfair.com or call 212.337.3338.

The 2012 Winter Antiques Show, held at the Park Street Armory in Manhattan, celebrated its 58th year this January 20-29. This most prestigious of American antiques and art shows featured seventy-five exhibitors showing the “best of the best,” from antiquities to the 1960s. While the majority of exhibitors specialize in American art, furniture, and decorative arts, renowned dealers of English, European, Asian, tribal, and material from antiquities share the floor. The energy was lively and sales were strong across the board, from 20th-century mobiles by Alexander Calder and Wharton Esherick wagon wheel chairs, to paintings, pottery, furniture, folk art, a Greek bronze horse, and rare illuminated manuscript.
 
Events included a gala opening night party, young collectors night, VIP tours, expert lectures and book signings, and a loan exhibit featuring Historic Hudson Valley. All net proceeds from sponsors, special events, and ticket sales support East Side House Settlement, a non-profit in the South Bronx providing social services to community residents.

This January marked the 58th year of the celebrated Winter Antiques Show, arguably the finest antiques show in the United States. Held at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, 75 exhibitors from the across the globe came together for what was a beautiful display of museum quality American, English, European, and Asian fine and decorative arts. Displaying an eclectic mix of vetted works from antiquity through the 1960s, the show is a mainstay among curators, collectors, dealers, and designers. See the following gallery to view photographs of every exhibitor’s booth at the show.

This weekend could be the first time so many of Charleston's finest antiques were crated up and shipped North since the end of the Civil War.

But this time, it's about prestige -- not plunder.

The Historic Charleston Foundation has assembled 70 paintings, ceramics, pieces of furniture, jewelry and metalwork to be featured later this month at the 57th Annual Winter Antiques Show in New York.

The exhibit, expected to be seen by about 25,000 collectors and enthusiasts from around the world, will be novel because it will feature several pieces that have not been previously displayed in public.

Brandy Culp, a curator with the foundation, helped assemble the exhibition and will give one of five lectures about it during the show.

"The point of the exhibit is the level of sophistication and craftsmanship you see in the city from the 18th to the early 19th centuries," she said. "Charleston is known for its consumer base that was very interested in having the latest fashion from abroad."

The exhibit marks only the second time in 17 years that the Winter

Antiques Show's featured collection comes from the South -- and the first time that it comes from a collaboration of institutions, she said.