Small Fairs for Big Budgets

Winter in New York doesn’t necessarily mean freezing temperatures, and talks of Snowmageddon, instead, it is a time to warm up your home, or imagination, with some of the world’s top antiques, from the most respected dealers in America. And so it was last month, even with the impending bad weather, thousands of people, including myself, flocked downtown to The Metropolitan Pavillion for the Metro Show, and many more went uptown to America’s most eminent art fair, The Winter Antiques Show. Since it’s all about business, and for the love of art, (and the sheer pleasure of feasting my eyes on an array of museum quality art and design) I drank a couple of double espressos, took my share of vitamin c, and head out to brace the cold.

This time around, I was highly focussed on the ceramics (a shame I didn’t personally attend the New York Ceramics and Glass Fair, this year), as well as the outdoor pieces since I had a particular project in mind. I tend to go for the whimsy and divine, as most of my readers already know. But I was re-directed by the project at hand, and took note of other highly desirable objets.