Young Collectors Soiree Explores "Timeless Elements; Contemporary Flair"
Presented by SunTrust
Join us for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres with
Veranda Editor-at-Large Carolyn Englefield while she tours the show floor and provides insights on how to
Mix the New with the Old.
Thursday, February 11 ~ 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Young Collectors Soiree Tickets are $45 at the Door
RSVP to Debra Bodily
dbodily@cheekwood.org
Nashville Convention Center
601 Commerce Street
Complimentary parking ~ courtesy of SunTrust ~ available in the SunTrust Parking Garage (4th Avenue between Church & Commerce Streets)
Young Collectors Soiree Chairmen
Brooke Sevier
Meg White
For more details about the Young Collectors Soiree, please visit:
www.antiquesandgardenshow.com/events.php
ANTIQUES AND GARDEN SHOW ADVANCED TICKET LOCATIONS:
~Davis-Kidd Booksellers
~Borders Books
~Harris Teeter (beginning January 27)
2010 Advance Tickets are $10 (through February 10) and $15 at the door. Show dates, times and location: Thursday and Friday, February 11-12, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday, February 13, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Sunday.; Nashville Convention Center
For tickets and Show information visit www.antiquesandgardenshow.com or call (615) 352-9064 or (800) 891-8075
20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Preview Party ~ Wednesday, February 10, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Young Collectors Soiree ~ Thursday, February 11, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Jazz Night At The Show ~ Friday, February 12, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Ask An Expert ~ Saturday, February 13, 20-minute sessions beginning at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.
20th Anniversary Sponsors: Bass, Berry & Sims, PLC; Barry Real Estate Companies; Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC; Boyle Investment Company; Nashville Commercial; Pinnacle Financial Partners
Liquor/Beverage Party Sponsor: Jack Daniel Distillery and BonTerra Vineyards
Marketing Sponsor: BOHAN Advertising/Marketing
Lecture Series Sponsor: Andrew W. Byrd & Company, LLC
Preview Party Sponsor: First Tennessee
Jazz Night Party Sponsor: Nashville Scene & NFocus
Young Collectors Soiree Sponsor: SunTrust
Printing Sponsor: McQuiddy Classic Printing, Athens Paper
The William Stamps Farish Fund; Exchange Club of Nashville; The Hilton Nashville Downtown; Union Station-A Wyndham Historic Hotel; Veranda Magazine; Mix 92.9; Seigenthaler Public Relations
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC; Caterpillar Financial Products Division; Corrections Corporation of America; Covenant Capital Group; event logistics, inc.; GenCap America, Inc.; GSB Foundation; Nashville Lifestyles; Sherrard & Roe, PLC; Walker, Tipps & Malone, PLC
Robert W. Baird & Company, Inc.; Beach List Direct, Inc.; Bowne of Nashville; Davis-Kidd Booksellers; Diversified Trust Company; Flower Magazine; H.G. Hill Realty Company, LLC; Highwoods Properties; Lipman Brothers, Inc; Mr. T's Patio; Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, PC; Louie M. and Betty M. Phillips Foundation; Tennessee Bank and Trust; R.J. Young; Wells Fargo Commercial Bank
Raffle Sponsors: Embers Grill & Fireplace Store of Brentwood; Cindi Earl; Bradford's; Bob and Martha Nemer of The Cotton Mill; Loews Hotels
Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville P.O. Box 50950 Nashville, TN 37205 (615) 352-1282
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
REMEMBER WHEN---WE WILL MISS KEVIN VELLE
We just learned of the sudden death of Kevin Velle, an honorable man. From the archives of my mind I look back at better days...I want to think of all the good and positive memories of people I have known.
Here is a reprint from the New York times of a good week from the past. Life is short.
October 20, 1994
Season Opens For Folk Art
By SUZANNE SLESIN
ON your mark. Get set. Go -- for that sponge-ware pitcher!
The opening today of the 16th annual Fall Antiques Show at the Pier signifies open season for folk art -- all those charming, irresistible objects and artifacts sought after by collectors and ordinary people for whom capturing and living with folk art has become a way of life.
The show, at Pier 92 on the Hudson River at West 55th Street, is one of the bonanzas of American folk art, with merchandise from 1800 through the 1950's presented by 103 of the top dealers in the field from across the country. It is an event where objects with wonderful surfaces, original lively paint and not-to-be-believed patinas -- and sometimes price tags to match -- make many people's hearts race and checkbooks flip open.
By Tuesday, more than 1,500 people had paid $150 each for tickets to last night's preview party, sponsored by Country Living magazine and benefiting the Museum of American Folk Art. The party was also the place for those who wanted first crack at the stuff.
Over the last two decades, folk art has come to include both the six-figure weathervane and flea-market finds. It has leapfrogged from the arena of antiques to that of art, and prices have risen accordingly.
Whether buying or only looking, visitors to this four-day event can take in a range of merchandise -- from quilts to corner cupboards, from shooting-gallery targets to hardware store fittings -- illustrating the vibrant decorative expression that Eileen Dubrow, a dealer from Bayside, Queens, described as "a need to have something more than just a functional object." Mrs. Dubrow was selling an ornate 1858 staghorn and carved wood coat and umbrella stand that had stood for years in her home. "We wanted to bring something new and fresh to the show," she said. It could be in your foyer for $35,000.
Other treasures whose prices reflect their rarity included a pristine 1857 shirred wool rug depicting a lion in a jungle at the Kelter-Malce booth ($20,000); a graceful 1808 early bentwood American chair, from Samuel Herrup Antiques ($4,800), and at the Gemini Antiques booth, a rare mechanical bank depicting three black baseball players ($6,000).
As always, painted furniture -- from blanket chests to side chairs to a five-piece bedroom set of 1880 cottage furniture (at the Judith and James Milne booth, for $12,500) -- is an anchor of the show.
"It wasn't magical until someone put the paint on it," Robert Snyder, a Zieglersville, Pa., dealer, said of a 1920's oak extension table whose legs were painted red, white and blue. The patriotic table was priced at $4,800.
Connie Hayes described her mid-19th century pumpkin-and-rust corner cupboard, selling for $14,600, as having "wild paint." A more sedate blue-green seven-foot apothecary cabinet with 40 drawers, at Nan and David Pirnack's booth, was going for $7,500.
At the show -- running today and Friday from 11 A.M. to 9 P.M., Saturday until 8 P.M. and Sunday until 6 P.M. -- curiosity seekers who pay the $10 admission each day can check out the 1906 "Stamp Man," a two-piece suit covered with canceled 1- and 2-cent stamps, offered by Frank and Barbara Pollack for $2,750. Or Richard and Betty Ann Rasso's beautifully carved record player, crafted by William Plummer, a self-taught artist who died in 1942. How much? It's yours, for $35,000. Whether it can it be converted to play CD's might be the real question.
Huge items, like a forest of 26 painted barbershop poles ($18,000), offered by Harvey Pranian at the Harvey Antiques booth, and a fetching 1925 7-foot-4-inch cement swimmer by George Suchy, at the Walters Benisek Art and Antiques booth ($9,500), were reminders of the spatial constraints that put the brakes on impulse items.
"It's a Saturday night church," J. Kenneth Kohn, a psychiatrist and the owner of With All Due Ceremony, of Elkins Park, Pa., said as he lifted the top off a $4,500 26-by-36-inch model of a church to display the interior, a dance hall decorated for Christmas. "I'm semiretired, so this is therapy," he said of his involvement with folk art.
Dr. Kohn is not alone.
Photos: Shooting-gallery target; $12,000 for two, from Stephen Score.; Cement swimmer sculptured by George Suchy in 1925; $9,500, from Walters Benisek Art and Antiques.; Shirred wool rug depicting a lion; $20,000, from Kelter-Malce.; Kenneth Kohn lifts top off his $4,500 "Saturday night church." (pg. C1); Revolving hardware store fixture that held nuts and bolts; $2,400, from. Kevin R. Velle; This rare cast-iron mechanical bank, showing three black baseball players, is going for $6,000 at the Gemini Antiques booth.; A two-seat garden settee, made of horseshoes; $2,200, from Linda and Howard Stein.; The "Stamp Man," a suit and cap covered in canceled 1- and 2-cent stamps, is going for $2,750, from Frank and Barbara Pollack.; Intricately carved record player; $35,000, from Richard and Betty Ann Rasso.; Bentwood chair, an 1808 design, is $4,800 at Samuel Herrup Antiques.; A blue-green Shaker-style apothecary cabinet with 40 drawers is $7,500 at Nan and David Pirnack Antiques.; This maple Queen Anne highboy, made in the mid-1700's, was painted 100 years later; $59,000 at Kemble's.; Mid-19th-century coat and umbrella stand is $35,000 from Richard and Eileen Dubrow.; Group of 26 painted barber poles is $18,000 from Harvey Antiques. (pg. C10) (Photographs by Ed Quinn for The New York Times)
Here is a reprint from the New York times of a good week from the past. Life is short.
October 20, 1994
Season Opens For Folk Art
By SUZANNE SLESIN
ON your mark. Get set. Go -- for that sponge-ware pitcher!
The opening today of the 16th annual Fall Antiques Show at the Pier signifies open season for folk art -- all those charming, irresistible objects and artifacts sought after by collectors and ordinary people for whom capturing and living with folk art has become a way of life.
The show, at Pier 92 on the Hudson River at West 55th Street, is one of the bonanzas of American folk art, with merchandise from 1800 through the 1950's presented by 103 of the top dealers in the field from across the country. It is an event where objects with wonderful surfaces, original lively paint and not-to-be-believed patinas -- and sometimes price tags to match -- make many people's hearts race and checkbooks flip open.
By Tuesday, more than 1,500 people had paid $150 each for tickets to last night's preview party, sponsored by Country Living magazine and benefiting the Museum of American Folk Art. The party was also the place for those who wanted first crack at the stuff.
Over the last two decades, folk art has come to include both the six-figure weathervane and flea-market finds. It has leapfrogged from the arena of antiques to that of art, and prices have risen accordingly.
Whether buying or only looking, visitors to this four-day event can take in a range of merchandise -- from quilts to corner cupboards, from shooting-gallery targets to hardware store fittings -- illustrating the vibrant decorative expression that Eileen Dubrow, a dealer from Bayside, Queens, described as "a need to have something more than just a functional object." Mrs. Dubrow was selling an ornate 1858 staghorn and carved wood coat and umbrella stand that had stood for years in her home. "We wanted to bring something new and fresh to the show," she said. It could be in your foyer for $35,000.
Other treasures whose prices reflect their rarity included a pristine 1857 shirred wool rug depicting a lion in a jungle at the Kelter-Malce booth ($20,000); a graceful 1808 early bentwood American chair, from Samuel Herrup Antiques ($4,800), and at the Gemini Antiques booth, a rare mechanical bank depicting three black baseball players ($6,000).
As always, painted furniture -- from blanket chests to side chairs to a five-piece bedroom set of 1880 cottage furniture (at the Judith and James Milne booth, for $12,500) -- is an anchor of the show.
"It wasn't magical until someone put the paint on it," Robert Snyder, a Zieglersville, Pa., dealer, said of a 1920's oak extension table whose legs were painted red, white and blue. The patriotic table was priced at $4,800.
Connie Hayes described her mid-19th century pumpkin-and-rust corner cupboard, selling for $14,600, as having "wild paint." A more sedate blue-green seven-foot apothecary cabinet with 40 drawers, at Nan and David Pirnack's booth, was going for $7,500.
At the show -- running today and Friday from 11 A.M. to 9 P.M., Saturday until 8 P.M. and Sunday until 6 P.M. -- curiosity seekers who pay the $10 admission each day can check out the 1906 "Stamp Man," a two-piece suit covered with canceled 1- and 2-cent stamps, offered by Frank and Barbara Pollack for $2,750. Or Richard and Betty Ann Rasso's beautifully carved record player, crafted by William Plummer, a self-taught artist who died in 1942. How much? It's yours, for $35,000. Whether it can it be converted to play CD's might be the real question.
Huge items, like a forest of 26 painted barbershop poles ($18,000), offered by Harvey Pranian at the Harvey Antiques booth, and a fetching 1925 7-foot-4-inch cement swimmer by George Suchy, at the Walters Benisek Art and Antiques booth ($9,500), were reminders of the spatial constraints that put the brakes on impulse items.
"It's a Saturday night church," J. Kenneth Kohn, a psychiatrist and the owner of With All Due Ceremony, of Elkins Park, Pa., said as he lifted the top off a $4,500 26-by-36-inch model of a church to display the interior, a dance hall decorated for Christmas. "I'm semiretired, so this is therapy," he said of his involvement with folk art.
Dr. Kohn is not alone.
Photos: Shooting-gallery target; $12,000 for two, from Stephen Score.; Cement swimmer sculptured by George Suchy in 1925; $9,500, from Walters Benisek Art and Antiques.; Shirred wool rug depicting a lion; $20,000, from Kelter-Malce.; Kenneth Kohn lifts top off his $4,500 "Saturday night church." (pg. C1); Revolving hardware store fixture that held nuts and bolts; $2,400, from. Kevin R. Velle; This rare cast-iron mechanical bank, showing three black baseball players, is going for $6,000 at the Gemini Antiques booth.; A two-seat garden settee, made of horseshoes; $2,200, from Linda and Howard Stein.; The "Stamp Man," a suit and cap covered in canceled 1- and 2-cent stamps, is going for $2,750, from Frank and Barbara Pollack.; Intricately carved record player; $35,000, from Richard and Betty Ann Rasso.; Bentwood chair, an 1808 design, is $4,800 at Samuel Herrup Antiques.; A blue-green Shaker-style apothecary cabinet with 40 drawers is $7,500 at Nan and David Pirnack Antiques.; This maple Queen Anne highboy, made in the mid-1700's, was painted 100 years later; $59,000 at Kemble's.; Mid-19th-century coat and umbrella stand is $35,000 from Richard and Eileen Dubrow.; Group of 26 painted barber poles is $18,000 from Harvey Antiques. (pg. C10) (Photographs by Ed Quinn for The New York Times)
Sunday, January 3, 2010
2010 UPCOMING SHOWS
SAVE THE DATES:
January 23-24, 2010
Americana & Antiques @ the Pier
Pier 92, 55th & 12th Avenue
www.stellashows.com
February 10-13, 2010
Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville.
Nashville Convention Center
www.antiquesandgardenshow.com
★April 16-18, 2010
★Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques & Garden Fair
★Glencoe, IL
★www.chicago-botanic.org
January 23-24, 2010
Americana & Antiques @ the Pier
Pier 92, 55th & 12th Avenue
www.stellashows.com
February 10-13, 2010
Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville.
Nashville Convention Center
www.antiquesandgardenshow.com
★April 16-18, 2010
★Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques & Garden Fair
★Glencoe, IL
★www.chicago-botanic.org
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
PDF IN 2009
OFF TOPIC OF THIS BLOG, BUT GOOD TO KNOW.
PDF’s Top Ten List 2009
Support PDF
Funded $5 million through our diverse research programs to support the best scientific investments in Parkinson’s, including three leading Parkinson’s research centers and 24 individual investigators.
Continued our commitment to training future leaders in Parkinson’s through our Fellowship and Career Development Programs, which supported 42 fellowships for researchers, clinicians and medical students.
Remained responsive to new and existing research opportunities, including awarding $300,000 in emergency bridge funding to four leading Parkinson’s scientists and ramping up support for the promising Longitudinal and Biomarker Study in PD (LABS-PD) Project.
Advanced the state of clinical research to improve the development of new therapies for Parkinson’s by preparing 37 people with Parkinson’s to become clinical research advocates through our Second Clinical Research Learning Institute and by laying groundwork, through a series of roundtable discussions, for a clinical study to investigate the therapeutic potential of exercise.
Hosted a new series of online educational programs to ensure all people with Parkinson’s have access to the latest information from the leaders in the field. The seven programs attracted almost 7,000 registrants.
Advised, through our National HelpLine and Ask the Expert service, thousands of people with Parkinson’s, family members and health care professionals from all 50 states and six continents, on issues relating to diagnosis, treatment, caregiving and more.
Distributed 50,000 free educational publications to people around the US and around the world, to ensure people with Parkinson’s are armed with the facts and resources they need to live well.
Celebrated our fourth year working with our People with Parkinson’s Advisory Council, a group of 13 individuals who advise PDF on its programs.
Recommitted ourselves to our new financial assistance program (established in 2008 with an annual $50,000 grant to the Melvin Weinstein Parkinson's Foundation) for people with Parkinson’s to cover emergency needs, such as the purchase of wheelchairs, walkers and canes as well as home care and other assistance.
Was rated a Four-Star Charity by Charity Navigator, making PDF the only Parkinson’s Charity to receive both this and the Charity Seal of Approval from the Wise Giving Alliance of the Better Business Bureau (BBB).
Please accept our appreciation for your support and our best wishes for a happy and healthy new year.
Robin Anthony Elliott
If you have or believe you have Parkinson’s disease, then promptly consult a physician and follow your physician’s advice. This email is not a substitute for a physician’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease or for a physician’s prescription of drugs, treatment or operations for Parkinson’s.
www.pdf.org |Contact Us|PINS Helpline: (800) 457-6676
© 2009 Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, Inc.
PDF’s Top Ten List 2009
Support PDF
Funded $5 million through our diverse research programs to support the best scientific investments in Parkinson’s, including three leading Parkinson’s research centers and 24 individual investigators.
Continued our commitment to training future leaders in Parkinson’s through our Fellowship and Career Development Programs, which supported 42 fellowships for researchers, clinicians and medical students.
Remained responsive to new and existing research opportunities, including awarding $300,000 in emergency bridge funding to four leading Parkinson’s scientists and ramping up support for the promising Longitudinal and Biomarker Study in PD (LABS-PD) Project.
Advanced the state of clinical research to improve the development of new therapies for Parkinson’s by preparing 37 people with Parkinson’s to become clinical research advocates through our Second Clinical Research Learning Institute and by laying groundwork, through a series of roundtable discussions, for a clinical study to investigate the therapeutic potential of exercise.
Hosted a new series of online educational programs to ensure all people with Parkinson’s have access to the latest information from the leaders in the field. The seven programs attracted almost 7,000 registrants.
Advised, through our National HelpLine and Ask the Expert service, thousands of people with Parkinson’s, family members and health care professionals from all 50 states and six continents, on issues relating to diagnosis, treatment, caregiving and more.
Distributed 50,000 free educational publications to people around the US and around the world, to ensure people with Parkinson’s are armed with the facts and resources they need to live well.
Celebrated our fourth year working with our People with Parkinson’s Advisory Council, a group of 13 individuals who advise PDF on its programs.
Recommitted ourselves to our new financial assistance program (established in 2008 with an annual $50,000 grant to the Melvin Weinstein Parkinson's Foundation) for people with Parkinson’s to cover emergency needs, such as the purchase of wheelchairs, walkers and canes as well as home care and other assistance.
Was rated a Four-Star Charity by Charity Navigator, making PDF the only Parkinson’s Charity to receive both this and the Charity Seal of Approval from the Wise Giving Alliance of the Better Business Bureau (BBB).
Please accept our appreciation for your support and our best wishes for a happy and healthy new year.
Robin Anthony Elliott
If you have or believe you have Parkinson’s disease, then promptly consult a physician and follow your physician’s advice. This email is not a substitute for a physician’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease or for a physician’s prescription of drugs, treatment or operations for Parkinson’s.
www.pdf.org |Contact Us|PINS Helpline: (800) 457-6676
© 2009 Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, Inc.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW
AND DID IT EVER.
AS OF THIS EVENING THERE ARE STILL MANY SNOWED IN.
DREAMS COME TRUE.
A WHITE CHRISTMAS
Saturday, December 19, 2009
STORM TRACKER
It is Friday night 12/18/2009.
All you hear about on the news (east coast U.S.A.) is storm warnings and watches. Predictions of the worst in 43 years for a pre-Christmas winter storm.
As I see it not all predictions come to pass. We have been in an economic storm for over two years. Not all predictions come to pass.
Some say the storm has passed.
Some say the storm continues.
Some say the storm is getting worse.
Some say the storm is getting better.
Some say, "what storm" ???
It all depends on where you stand, sit, or whatever.
I guess we will see.
All you hear about on the news (east coast U.S.A.) is storm warnings and watches. Predictions of the worst in 43 years for a pre-Christmas winter storm.
As I see it not all predictions come to pass. We have been in an economic storm for over two years. Not all predictions come to pass.
Some say the storm has passed.
Some say the storm continues.
Some say the storm is getting worse.
Some say the storm is getting better.
Some say, "what storm" ???
It all depends on where you stand, sit, or whatever.
I guess we will see.
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