ANTIQUES AT THE ARMORY

JANUARY 18-19-20, 2008

HEAD FOR ANTIQUES AT THE ARMORY SECTION

SET 36 PT

Antiques At The Armory Opens Friday, January 18

Set 24 pt

Three-Day Show At 69th Regiment Armory Under Stella Management

 

 

NEW YORK CITY — Lots of fresh-to-the-market material, ranging from Seventeenth Century furniture to designer Twentieth Century furnishings is the key to what keeps the January show at the 69th Regiment Armory lively and crowded from its Friday, January 18, 11 am opening until Sunday’s closing. Dealers promise everything from rare weathervanes and out-of-sight folk art to industrial-style lighting and pop art.

Whether customers come to the Armory to add decoys or stoneware to a collection or in search of high-style modern design furnishings to decorate a loft, they will find it.

Weathervanes will be abundant, ranging from $2,000 to $40,000. Dealers promise some rare ones in the forms of horses, sheep, a cow, cannon, rooster, eagles and more.

Folk art paintings and signs will be plentiful. Snyder & Wilson of Wiscasset, Maine will offer a hooked rug, 6 feet wide, featuring a scene of a town square.

Praiseworthy Antiques of Guilford, N.Y., has acquired an unusual collection of folk art paintings, all by one artist, all of women, and all fresh to the market.

Judd Gregory from Dorset, Vt., offers a massive architectural door surround, a 7-foot-tall 1880s pond boat, a diminutive mahogany chest and a New York City grained mahogany bookcase.

Jeff Henkel from Pennington, N.J., promises modern surprises such as some Jacques Adnet lighting, a rare Mastercraft brass credenza and an Emile Galle plaster panel.

Antiques at the Armory brings a welcome excitement to Antiques Week, offering Americana collectors, ceramics buyers, decorators and young collectors many surprises, fresh-to-the-market material, the latest trends and traditional high-quality furnishings.

The Kembles of Norwich, Ohio, will have fine American formal furniture, including a Massachusetts Queen Anne high chest in tiger maple circa 1830–50, with beautifully shaped skirt and cabriole legs; a Rhode Island Chippendale slant front desk in tiger maple with block and carved shell interior, circa 1780; and a rare intricately hand carved Angel Gabriel weathervane with a weathered gilded surface circa 1800.

George and Debbie Spiecker of North Hampton, N.H., will present a Thomas Fentham mirror, a rare military weathervane and stunning American furniture.

Michele Fox and Susan Parrish offer quilts and textiles, including beacon blankets and homespun.

The Billets, Balsamo Antiques and Schorr & Dobinsky will entice and delight young decorators with collections of architectural and industrial material. Josh Lowenfels, new to the Armory show this year, offers far out folk art, outsider art and Americana.

Kip McKesson offers African art, while Nancy Prince brings Native American artifacts and baskets.

A to Z, all areas of collecting are covered in this eclectic, not-to-be-missed event.

 Antiques at the Armory takes place in the 69th Regiment Armory in the Gramercy Park section of New York City, Lexington Avenue at 26th Street. Show hours are Friday and Saturday, 11 am to 8 pm; and Sunday 11 am to 5 pm. Stella Show Mgmt Co. provides free shuttles to the American Antiques Show and the Winter Antiques Show every hour on the hour during show days, and departs the other shows to return to 26th Street every hour on the half hour. For more information www.stellashows.com.