May 7th, 2012 
Hui 
Patinamania is not enough for describing the dominant theme in the 23rd street Armory Show. The obsession with surface and paint has already stirred up interests and prices in many folk art areas, such as dower chests or weathervanes; now dealers must prove that collect-ability and bargains can still co-exist, in an antiques show. At the 23rd [...]
May 3rd, 2012 Hui 
The Philadelphia Antiques Show has a new look. Certainly the brand new Pennsylvania Convention Center better serves the show with its central location and super-wide aisles, but more importantly the vetted show has adopted a more flexible standard on what can be brought in. Many new faces, together with “newer” merchandise liberate the show from [...]
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Tags: Charles Wilson Peale, Dolan/Maxwell, Don Thrash, Donald Cresswell, Dornach, Edward Burd, Guy Pene Du Bois, Harriet Candy Peale, Jonathan Boos, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Antiques Show, Philadelphia Print Shop, Robert Aibel, Robert Schwartz, Robert Vickery, Schwartz Gallery 
No Comments » April 23rd, 2012 UAA Team 
A highlight of an upcoming sale at Clars Auction will be an original bedroom suite created by Pottier & Stymus for San Francisco silver baron James C. Flood and his mansion called Linden Towers. Linden Towers was, at the time, regarded as the most elaborate country estate of the period. With an estimated worth of [...]
Posted in Antiques, Auction, Furniture Tags: Clars Auction, James C. Flood, Linden Towers, Pottier & Stymus 3 Comments » March 23rd, 2012 UAA Team 
A three-door mahogany bookcase crafted around 1890 by the renowned American furniture maker R. J. Horner, sold for $22,425 by Stevens Auction at a sale of the living estate of Brenda McCarthy of Tupelo, Mississippi. The bookcase boasted Atlas statue sides and curved glass on the center door. It was monumental in size – 5 feet [...]
Posted in Antiques, Auction, Furniture Tags: A&S Antique Auction Co, Atlas, R. J. Horner No Comments » February 20th, 2012 UAA Team 
Coinciding with Winterthur’s reopening this spring, the museum will host the 11th annual Sewell C. Biggs Winterthur Furniture Forum, Furniture in the South: Makers & Consumers, on March 1 and 2. An array of scholars and specialists, including distinguished curators from Winterthur, will lead two days of fascinating lectures and workshops focusing on southern regional [...]
February 9th, 2012 Hui 
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York—the first retrospective on Phyfe in 90 years was long over-due. It was postponed so long due to the financial situation that at one time I thought it would never materialize. The first retrospective show of Phyfe’s furniture, also at the Met, curated by Charles Over Cornelius in 1922, [...]
Posted in Furniture, Museum, Show & Gallery Tags: Duncan Phyfe, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1 Comment » January 19th, 2012 UAA Team 
With all the brouhaha over the Duncan Phyfe show at the Met, you don’t expect you could find a attributed Phyfe sideboard for sale in the price range of a ten year old used car. If you’re visited the show, or even if you haven’t, you may want to watch this auction. Thomaston Place is offering a New [...]
Posted in Antiques, Auction, Furniture, Museum Tags: Boscobel, Duncan Phyfe, Hudson Valley, Met, Thomaston Place No Comments » January 17th, 2012 ewmiller 
A fancy painted card table, by Thomas Seymour, a blown flask, a winter painting by Walter Palmer and two sofas in a classical form provide additional highlights in a an auction featuring a broad spectrum of American art and decorative arts. Keno Auctions’ Important Americana, Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts kicked off Americana Week activities. The Boston [...]
January 6th, 2012 UAA Team 
“Brown furniture” and “Victorian”are not words you commonly hear in the same breath with “auction records,” but there are welcome exceptions now and then. A rare, museum-quality mechanical rosewood drop-front secretary desk, made around 1860 and attributed to the renowned American furniture maker Thomas Brooks, recently sold for $21,280 at only the second auction held [...]
November 11th, 2011 UAA Team ![Jack Boucher [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.urbanartantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Governors_Mansion_1010_Colorado_Street_Austin_Travis_County_Texas-150x150.jpg "Governor")
The 2011 Theta Charity Antiques Show in Houston will have a special display of items from the Texas Governor’s Mansion. For the first time since the devastating fire in 2008, the mansion will release a collection of fine and decorative arts to display at this year’s show. Jane Karotkin, Texas Governor’s Mansion Curator/Administrator of Friends [...]
