The Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory is revving up for its grand opening next week, when it will draw some of the world’s best dealers for its 58th year. It opens to the public January 20 through 29 with proceeds going to the East Side Settlement House, which aids the needy in the South Bronx. Go visit, and you’ll surely find treasures galore. For example, furniture designer Harry Bertoia (1915”1978) created this sterling silver wire and ebonized wood pendant (dealer: Lost City Arts). I will be hosting the Young Designers evening from 7 to 9 on January 26, when you can meet over 70 of the city’s greatest designers (www.winterantiquesshow.com). Photo: Courtesy of The Winter Antiques Show
How much would you give for a letter by Thomas Jefferson? Historic letters like this will become more precious as time goes on, as snail mail becomes a thing of the past (dealer: Kenneth W. Rendell Inc.). Photo: Courtesy of The Winter Antiques Show
You don’t necessarily have to have a garden for this huge sarcophagus-style planter depicting the fall of Phaeton, circa 1900. Instead, you could put it in a large foyer or bathroom” use your imagination. It was made in Italy, but it once graced the grounds of a Stanford White-redesigned (dealer: Barbara Israel Garden Antiques). Photo: Courtesy of The Winter Antiques Show
This oil-on-canvas work by American painter Marsden Hartley is from his Berlin Series No. 1, from circa 1913. (dealer: Jonathan Boos). Photo: Courtesy of The Winter Antiques Show
I would have a knight in my house, if I could. This handsome one previously lived at Hever Castle in Kent, England, and was owned by Viscount Waldorf Astor. This is Northern Italian armor for the tilt, from Milan circa 1580 (dealer: Peter Finer). Photo: Courtesy of The Winter Antiques Show
