| Winter Antiques Show Gets Set To Dazzle
On Thursday evening, the Winter Antiques Show at the Seventh Regiment Armory will open to a crowd of collectors and socialites who have paid hundreds of dollars a ticket to get a first look at the objects for sale. The Winter Show, which, along with the International Show, is one of the premier antique shows in New York, exhibits the finest examples of everything from English furniture to American quilts; from antique jewelry to Chinese ceramics, and from medieval sculpture to objets de vertu the French term for beautiful but useless things, like Faberg. "Dealers save their most important pieces for the Winter Antiques Show, so people know they are going to see things they wouldn't see the rest of the year," the show's executive director, Catherine Sweeney Singer, said. "Dealers will say to a client: I have a piece that I know you're going to be interested in, but you need to come to the opening night party to see it.'" The party, sponsored by Elle Decor typically raises over a million dollars for the show's owner, the East Side House Settlement.
ANTIQUES: Valentine's Day has origins in Rome
Valentine's Day is a celebration that dates back to Feb. 14, 270, when a priest named Valentinus was executed in Rome for supporting Christian martyrs. According to legend, Valentinus, while in jail, befriended his jailer's blind daughter and miraculously restored her sight. Before he died, he sent the girl a note signed "from your Valentine." Feb. 15 was already the pagan feast of Lupercalia, a raucous celebration where a young Roman man chose his mate for the holiday by drawing her name from a box. But years later, when the church tried to stop this pagan celebration, it changed Lupercalia to St. Valentine's Day, a holiday for lovers to exchange tokens and notes. Although today most people send paper or e-mail valentines, there have been many other ways to express sentiment on Valentine's Day.
The serial collector
CHICAGO - For the wildly creative, it can be exasperating to live in a prosaic one-bedroom apartment. "They all look the same. It's impossible to do anything different with them," laments Chicago hairstylist John Lanzendorf. But rather than complain, Lanzendorf managed to make his ho-hum, 1,000-square-foot Streeterville apartment unique. "I started collecting," he says, in a tone that suggests the answer was obvious. Did he ever. First came several hundred Steiff teddy bears, followed by parrots - more than 300 in bronze and 10 rare live ones. Whenever he would tire of a collection, which took about 10 years, he would sell it off and start anew. "My mother used to drag me antiquing as soon as I could walk, so the acquisition process is in my blood. I'm a little obsessive-compulsive about it," he admits.
Jawonio starts online auction to raise funds
Since its inception 60 years ago, Jawonio has been raising money to help support programs for people with disabilities. On Friday it began a new fundraising effort with the launch of an online auction, one of the first by a nonprofit organization in Rockland County. The auction, which offers 90 items of art, collectibles, sports and movie memorabilia, vacations, jewelry and more, will continue for four weeks. Many items were donated; others were collected for golf outings or were bought specifically for the auction. All proceeds will go toward helping people with disabilities and special needs. Jawonio hopes the new Web site and online auction will work hand-in-hand to publicize its work and programs, as well as become a new tool for fundraising.
AntiquesYes.com Presents Major Auction of Architectural and Garden ...
/24-7PressRelease/ - PORTSMOUTH, RI, February 10, 2007 - AntiquesYes.com, the Internet auction site famous for quality, service, and record setting prices, is presenting an important Architectural Antiques Auction set to open on Tuesday, February 20, beginning at 9 pm EST. There will be a sneak in the WebWilson.com Image Galleries that will be updated continuously in the week prior to the auction opening. There will also be several Early Bird lots to wet your beak while waiting for the auction to open. Among the hand-picked lots that will sell to the highest bidder are stained and decorative windows from the collection of H. Weber Wilson, author of Great Glass In American Architecture, and vintage plumbing items selected by Jill Wilson, contributing author to Details, published by Gibbs-Smith in October of 2006.
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