LA Antique Show with opening Gals on April 22 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica (April 22-26, 09)
THE LOS ANGELES ANTIQUES SHOW ADDS EXHIBITORS, DESIGNER INSTALLATIONS, RENEWS ITS CHARITY PARTNERSHIP WITH P.S. ARTS
The 14th Annual Showcase Will Be Held On April 22-26, 2009 in Los Angeles
Presented by the Antique Dealers Association of California (ADAC), The Los Angeles Antiques Show 2009 has announced that the show will return to Los Angeles for a 14th year with a newly defined aesthetic. The Antiques Dealers Association of California, along with the Show’s chairs, Robert Willson and Laurent Rebuffel, will work together to achieve the strongest line of exhibitors yet. The Antiques Show has joined hands once again with charity partner to celebrate this year’s Opening Night Preview Party, on the evening of Wednesday, April 22, 2009. The Opening Night Preview Party will be the first buying opportunity and kick off the weekend long event with an extraordinary design committee, crossing vocabularies of collecting and decorating, lecture series, tours for families, and ultimately the masterful presentation of 60 of the premier antique and fine art dealers from the United States and Europe. Audi and Carolina Herrera are graciously sponsoring the LA Antique’s Show Opening Night Gala.
The Los Angeles Antiques Show is a widely anticipated event featuring 60 premier antique and fine art dealers from the United States and Europe. It is one of the most prestigious, highly regarded show among West Coast collectors. The show will consist of many returning dealers including Kentshire from New York, Downtown from Los Angeles, Dan Stein from San Francisco, French Country Living from France and new additions including, Dragonette from Los Angeles, top photography dealer Peter Fetterman, Eostone Fossils, specializing in unique fossil murals, San Francisco oriental rug dealer Peter Pap, and Docantic and Converso, both 20th Century dealers.
The four day event is attended by leading design professionals such as Kim Alexandriuk, Elizabeth Barondes, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Tim Clarke, Timothy Corrigan, Lizzie Dinkel, Peter Dunham, Sasha Emerson, Oliver M Furth, Jane Hallworth, Juliette Hohnen, Antonia Hutt, Kathryn Ireland, Kerry Joyce, Jeffrey Alan Marks, David Phoenix, Laurent Rebuffel, Loree Rodkin, Windsor Smith, Madeline Stuart, James Swan, and Robert Willson, as well as important collectors and celebrities. Renowned event-designers Dolphin Promotions produce the four day event, which presents the exhibitors with professionalism and style at Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Air Center. The Opening Night Preview Party is produced by Carleen Cappelletti, of Best Events.
The Opening Night Preview Party will kick-off this year’s event. Benefiting partner P.S. ARTS, the Preview Party, with Hosts Ellen DeGeneres & Portia De Rossi, and Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Meyer, will bring together more than 1,000 of the community’s most influential individuals. With the help of Audi and Carolina Herrera, the Preview Party will honor elite members of the art, design, architecture and entertainment worlds.
The Antique Dealers Association of California, founded in 1924, is a group of knowledgeable dealers pledged to integrity and fair dealing in the buying and selling of antiques. Members are experts in their individual fields with inventories ranging from 17th century baroque to Americana , from 18th century ceramics to fine rugs and textiles, from fine art to Asian antiquities to 20th century photography and design.
P.S. ARTS is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to restoring arts education programs to public elementary and middle schools in disadvantaged areas, predominately serving children who live at or below the national poverty level. P.S. ARTS, which was originally founded by Paul Cummins as an outreach project of the Crossroads Community Foundation, provides comprehensive, skills based, and sequential classes in visual arts, music, theater and dance to nearly 12,000 students in Los Angeles County and California’s Central Valley. P.S. ARTS also offers arts-related workshops for classroom teachers, integrating creative expression and arts into the core curriculum. Recognized by local, county and state agencies as an outstanding arts provider, P.S. ARTS now serves as a national model, advocating arts for all students. P.S. ARTS strives to raise more money to provide even more children with access to the arts.
The Opening Night Preview Party will be held at Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Air Center on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. The Collectors’ Preview will be held from 5:00 pm – 7:00pm and the Preview Party will be held from 7:00pm – 10:00pm.
The Los Angeles Antiques Show, also taking place at Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Air Center, has show hours from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm on Thursday, 4/23, Friday, 4/24 and Saturday, 4/25. Show hours on Sunday, 11/27 at 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Ticket prices will be $15 for daily admittance, which includes return entry and catalog. For more information about the LA Antiques Show, please visit www.losangelesantiqueshow.com, or contact Lisa Forst or Tina Malhotra bluPRint Public Relations, at 310.208.1300.
THE 14TH LOS ANGELES ANTIQUES SHOW, BENEFITING P.S. ARTS
Wednesday, April 22 – Sunday, April 26, 2009
Santa Monica Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California
Thursday – Saturday: 11 am – 7 pm; and Sunday: 11am – 5pm
www.psartsantiques.com
General Admission Ticket Prices: $15.00 each
The Los Angeles Antique Show is a widely anticipated event showcasing over 60 exhibitors, including top antique and fine art dealers from around the world, representing furniture, objects, paintings and decorative arts from antiquity through the 20th century. This show is the only one of it’s kind, bringing together the most prominent architects, designers, and artists gathering on the west coast, amidst the backdrop of the finest décor and antiquities.
This Years Highlights Include:
The Antique show will consist of many returning dealers including Kentshire from New York, Downtown from Los Angeles, Dan Stein from San Francisco, French Country Living from France and new additions including, Dragonette from Los Angeles, top photography dealer Peter Fetterman, Eostone Fossils, specializing in unique fossil murals and San Francisco oriental rug dealer Peter Pap.
Design Committee:
LA Antique Show design committee includes Kerry Joyce, Madeline Stuart, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Joe Nye, Thomas Lavin & Waldo Fernandez.
OPENING NIGHT GALA:
Wednesday, April 22nd (5pm – 10pm)
Opening Night Preview Party, a Benefit for PS Arts
Ticket Information: www.LosAngelesAntiqueShow.com
VIP Advanced Collectors’ Preview: 5pm – 7pm Ticket Prices: $750 couple, $500 individual
Opening Night Preview Party: 7pm – 10pm Ticket Prices: $200 couple, $150 individual
About PS Arts:
PS Arts is dedicated to restoring arts education in public schools by providing comprehensive, skills based, sequential classes in dance, music, theater and visual arts, and serves thousands of children in some of the most underserved neighborhoods in California. The evening gala, with committee – with its VIP host and honorary committee (exact names TBD), welcomes guests, at this invitation-only event, to more than 1,000 of the community’s most influential professionals and kicks off the weekend long event attended by more than 2,500 patrons of the art and antiques world.