Antiques :: The New York SunAntiques :: Stories from The New York SunStaten Island Has Antiques, Too- July 30, 2008 Staten Island is far removed from Manhattan's antiques and auction scene, but where there is supply and demand, there is a market. And Richmond Galleries, Staten Island's only auction house, serves that market. Founded in 1888 by Clare Brown, the business was originally a carriage and storage company. The Brown family has operated the company for 120 years, but the stock has shifted with the times. Today, Richmond Galleries sells a variety of merchandise, much of which comes from lawyers...http://www.nysun.com/antiques/staten-island-has-antiques-too/82834/ Antiques the Hell's Kitchen Way- July 30, 2008 While the new flea market in Fort Greene has shoppers and churchgoers at odds, things are relatively peaceful at the Hell's Kitchen flea market. Dealers from all around the Northeast come to this stretch of pavement on 39th Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues. When the "Garage," the market's two-floor annex in an indoor parking garage on West 25th Street, closes this fall, the former garage-based dealers will join the gang on 39th Street. But even that is likely to be a smooth transition...http://www.nysun.com/antiques/antiques-the-hells-kitchen-way/82833/ Shopping the Bridgehampton Fair- July 30, 2008 If the drive from Manhattan to Montauk gets you down, there will a pleasant diversion along the way later this month: the Antiques & Design in the Hamptons show from August 15 to 17. A benefit for the Bridgehampton Historical Society, this four-year-old event includes 50 dealers under sprawling white tents on the grounds of the historical society's Corwith House. Located in the heart of Bridgehampton, the fair is orchestrated by Stella Show Management Company, a Manhattan-based firm that...http://www.nysun.com/antiques/shopping-the-bridgehampton-fair/82835/ Colors That Last Forever- July 23, 2008 This Friday, the Enamels Room at the Frick Collection will reopen to the public, after several months of refurbishing. Included among its bronzes, Limoges dishes, and paintings by Duccio, Piero della Francesca, and others will be an entirely new addition: a splendid majolica charger that once belonged to Baron Adolphe de Rothschild and that has now been donated to the museum by Dianne Modestini, in memory of her late husband, Mario. To an eminent degree, this work exhibits one of the great...http://www.nysun.com/antiques/colors-that-last-forever/82464/ Selling Prints for Generations- July 23, 2008 If you have an interest in 19th-century American prints, chances are good that you will one day find yourself at the Old Print Shop. The gallery is crammed with wooden cases containing maps and prints of every possible subject. The walls are hung with Currier & Ives scenes, Audubon birds, and the occasional Winslow Homer print. The warm, crowded shop has occupied the same first-floor storefront on Lexington Avenue, between 29th and 30th streets, since the 1920s. And after 110 years in...http://www.nysun.com/antiques/selling-prints-for-generations/82427/ Castle Howard, Revisited- July 23, 2008 When the new film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited" opens Friday, audiences will see an estate of unparalleled splendor: Castle Howard, the palatial 18th-century home and gardens where the movie was filmed. Located in the northern English town of York, the home was also used as the setting for the television miniseries adaptation of the same novel that ran in the early 1980s. When the team behind the new feature film scouted a location for the cinematic version, they...http://www.nysun.com/antiques/castle-howard-revisited/82428/ A Designing Gentleman- July 16, 2008 The late 18th century and early 19th century was an active era for English collectors of art, furniture, and objects. Men such as architect Sir John Soane who filled his London townhouse to the roof with curiosities led the way. But one collector of the period, Thomas Hope (1769-1831), can also claim to have designed his own furniture for popular consumption. The dual sides of Hope's achievement as a collector and a designer will be on display at the Bard Graduate Center's exhibit...http://www.nysun.com/antiques/a-designing-gentleman/81979/ Cathedral Restoration, Courtesy of Magna Carta- July 16, 2008 To embark on the mother of all restoration projects, it's good to have the mother of all historical documents to help with the fund-raising efforts. An original 1215 version of the Magna Carta, which sat lost and forgotten in the archives of England's medieval Lincoln Cathedral for six centuries, is coming to Manhattan this fall. The visit is part of an aggressive fund-raising campaign aimed at restoring the cathedral, which conservators and architectural consultants estimate will have to...http://www.nysun.com/antiques/cathedral-restoration-courtesy-of-magna-carta/81980/ Wine, Sun & Shopping- July 16, 2008 EAST HAMPTON The East Hampton Antiques Show is only in its second year, but its benefit preview last weekend suggested that it is poised for success. Presented by the East Hampton Historical Society, the show included 60 dealers selected for their understanding of East End tastes. "We chose dealers who are based out here or who have a lot of clients here," the society's executive director, Richard Barons, said. "It's not Americana. We wanted something different. It had to be worth the...http://www.nysun.com/antiques/wine-sun-shopping/81981/ Summer Antiques Fairs and Finds- July 9, 2008 During the dog days of summer, the New York City antiques scene disperses. Dealers take Friday afternoons off. Collectors go on vacation, taking their appetites for acquisition with them. Even so, July and August offer fairs to attend, objects to discover, and bargains to be found. You need only know where to look. And that means a trip outside of New York City maybe to the Hamptons, where collectors and dealers companionably cohabitate in vacation settings, or Rhinebeck, a small town in...http://www.nysun.com/antiques/summer-antiques-fairs-and-finds/81467/ |