The Salon Art+Design

Produced by Sanford Smith in association with the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, France’s most prestigious group of dealers, the Salon: Art + Design will showcase historic and modern design, art, furniture and objects from the Louis XIV era to the present.

The show kicks off with a preview party to benefit the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club. Hosted by James P. Druckman, President, Board of Trustees, and Jacques Grange, Chairman of the Benefit Committee, the gala will take place Wednesday, November 7 from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. The show officially opens on Thursday from 4:00-8:00 p.m. with a cocktail party hosted by SCENE Magazine.

The Park Avenue Armory reopens its doors to another antique fair this past Thursday, November 8th. The show will end on Monday, November 12th. Salon Art + Design was created by veteran show producer Sanford Smith. It is the first American fair to collaborate with the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, Europe's most prestigious association of dealers. Most of the dealers were in attendance at the renowned Biennael des Antiquaires in Paris, this past September. Altogether the mix of genres, periods and styles reflected the eclecticism of today's collector.

While this show highlighted 20th century and contemporary art and design, historic design were represented by the oldest decorative arts gallery in Paris, an Old Master dealer with multiple European locations, and a selection of dealers in ethnographic and Asian material. Collectors in attendance welcomed, once again, the opportunity to pair a Brueghel with a Jean Michel Frank table or a tribal mask with a Le Corbusier painting. The range and caliber of material at the Salon will attract discerning collectors, designers, and art enthusiasts  around the world. Images courtesy High End Weekly™

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by Julia Halperin

The Pavilion of Art and Design New York, the French design fair that launched a successful stateside edition last November, will not return to the Park Avenue Armory this year. In its place is a new, somewhat more focused fine art and design fair called the Salon of Art and Design, which will specialize in contemporary and 20th-century design. The fair will feature 53 dealers, many of whom participated in PAD, including New York’s Jason Jacques and Friedman Benda and Paris’s Galerie Vallois. 

“We’ll have the highest quality of art and design there is, and it will be primarily 20th-century, with just a few dealers who specialize in earlier work,” said veteran fair organizer Sanford Smith, who co-produced PAD NY with Patrick Perrin, founder of the French edition. For his new venture, Smith will team up with the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, a Paris-based association of 400 antiques, art, and design dealers that organizes the respected Biennale des Antiquaires. The partners hopes to recruit new names, like Tel Aviv’s Le Minotaure Gallery, alongside established galleries from PAD NY's roster. (...)

by Candace Braun Davison

New York Design Center President James Druckman and Designer Jacques Grange kick off a sophisticated new arts and design show on Nov. 7th, and you're invited.

Collectors and design aficionados have a whole new reason to visit New York—from Nov. 8-12, The Salon: Art + Design makes its debut, but you can get an exclusive peek at the antiques, artworks, and curios on display this Thursday, Nov.

The theme of the show is "eclecticism," chosen to highlight modern trends in collecting, particularly designers' interest in mixing pieces from various eras to create multi-dimensional, timeless looks. Furniture from mid-century to today will be featured, as well as modern, contemporary, Asian, and ethnographic art.

For tickets and additional information, visit The Salon's website.

The combination of contemporary art and design, mixed with ethnographic pieces speaks to the way people are currently furnishing their homes. The days of collecting in a single category of fine art or antiques have since passed. Adventurous collectors show a preference for mixing genres and artifacts. Reflecting the way we live now, The SALON is sure to be a destination for collectors, designers and architects with a preference for eclecticism.

THE SALON will feature 53 leading international dealers exhibiting the finest modern art and design from 1890 to the present, along with major works of ethnographic art. The roots of modern design are also represented by dealers of earlier material. Half of the dealers are members of the prestigious Syndicat National des Antiquaires, many of whom will be exhibiting in New York for the first time (...)

Sanford Smith and Associates in conjunction with France’s Syndicat Nationale des Antiquaires will introduce an elegant upscale new art and design fair, The Salon: Art + Design at the Park Avenue Armory from November 8-12 with a gala preview to benefit the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Clubon Thursday, November 7. The collaboration is especially fortuitous, as Kips Bay is well known for its annual Decorator Show House, a must-see for lovers of home design, art and architecture.

Of the Salon, Sanford Smith notes: “What distinguishes this from other American art and design fairs is the participation of the dealers from the Syndicat. These dealers, combined with our top American exhibitors, will bring to the Salon a level of quality that has not recently been seen at a New York fair, and visitors to the show will have the opportunity to view work that is not only fresh to the market, but of the highest caliber. Our collaboration with the Syndicat, is sure to make the Salon the most elegant, eclectic show in New York this fall.” (...)

By Rosemary Feitelberg

THIS OLE HOUSE: Fashion types were out in force for Wednesday night’s preview gala for The Salon: Art + Design Preview Night Gala Benefitting Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club. This year’s chair Jacques Grange, whose clients have included Pierre Berge and Yves Saint Laurent, Princess Caroline, Valentino and Aerin Lauder, must have been right at home at the Park Avenue Armory. Ronald Lauder, Wilbur and Hilary Ross, Josie Natori, Bunny Williams and Reed Krakoff were among the first to file through.

NEW YORK—Among the best in art and design from the United States and Europe is on display at the Park Avenue Armory. The Salon: Art Modern + Design is a new show borne of a collaboration between The Syndicat National des Antiquaires and Sanford L. Smith and Associates, the producer of several American art fairs.

A collector’s paradise, more than 50 dealers are showcasing an eclectic mix of design-inspired furniture and lighting, African sculpture and visual art.

The Salon runs from Nov. 8 to Nov. 12, 2012.

All photos © Arts Observer

The combination of contemporary art and design, mixed with ethnographic pieces speaks to the way people are currently furnishing their homes. The days of collecting in a single category of fine art or antiques have since passed. Adventurous collectors show a preference for mixing genres and artifacts. Reflecting the way we live now, The SALON is sure to be a destination for collectors, designers and architects with a preference for eclecticism.

THE SALON will feature 53 leading international dealers exhibiting the finest modern art and design from 1890 to the present, along with major works of ethnographic art.

The roots of modern design are also represented by dealers of earlier material. Half of the dealers are members of the prestigious Syndicat National des Antiquaires, many of whom will be exhibiting in New York for the first time.

The Salon: Art + Design

A new show with 53 international exhibitors

November 8-12, 2012Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue & 67th Street
New York, New York
http://thesalonny.com/The SALON: Art+Design, produced by Sanford L. Smith & Associates LTD in collaboration with The Syndicat National des Antiquaires, will premiere at the Park Avenue Armory with a Gala Preview benefitting Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club. 53 leading international dealers exhibiting the finest modern art and design from 1890 to the present, along with major works of ethnographic art. Over half of the dealers are members of the prestigious Syndicat National des Antiquaires, many of whom will be exhibiting in New York for the first time

The Salon: Art & Design will open on Thursday, November 7th with a gala preview from 5:00-9:00pm to benefit the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club at the Park Avenue Armory. The Salon will include 25 of France’s most prestigious dealers, many of whom will be exhibiting in New York for the first time. Sanford L. Smith & Associates will collaborate with the Syndicate National des Antiquaires, the largest and most prestigious association of art and design dealers in France and producer of the renowned Paris Biennale. 

Jacques Grange, Benefit Committee Chairman and James P. Druckman, President, of the Board of Directors of Kips Bay and The New York Design Center will preside over a noteworthy benefit committee of important collectors and designers including Debra Black, Lee Mindel, Delphine & Reed Krakoff, Stephen Sills, Robert Couturier, Terry du Gunzberg, Bunny Williams, Tony Ingrao, Allison Maher Stern, Francois & Ketty Maisonrouge, Richard Meier, Jonathan & Lizzie Tisch, Patricia & Michael Sovern, Richard Meier, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, and Brian McCarthy.

he fair, which runs from November 8th-12th, will be a reflection of today’s current trends in collecting, featuring great works of design, furniture from mid-century to the present, the finest in modern and contemporary art, Asian and ethnographic art.  The Salon is built around the notion that adventurous collectors no longer buy only one genre of antiques and fine art. Unlike antiques shows of the past, booths in the Salon will be designed with an eye toward the designer as well as the collector. Each work within the 53 booths will be vetted by a committee of experts to ensure its highest caliber and authenticity.

Notable dealers will include: L’Arc en Seine-Paris, Galerie Beres-Paris,Galerie du Passage, Christian Deydier-Paris, Barry Friedman/Friedman Benda-New York, Galerie Gmurzynska-Switzerland, James Goodman-New York, DJL Lalique, New York, Galerie Vallois-Paris, Alain de Monbrison-Paris and Modernity-Stockholm. (...)

by Barbara L Dixon

Syndicat National des Antiquaires presents the most prestigous and world known art dealer's picks from the international art & design show in New York.

The Salon: Art + Design is being premiered in New York City November 7th and will run through November 12th at the Park Avenue Armory. It is a momentous occasion as this very international show is featuring carefully curated pieces from 53 exhibitors from 10 countries among them the U.S., France, England, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Monaco, and China. Twenty-five of the galleries and dealers are members of the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, the most prestigious dealers’ organization in France and producers of the famous and well respected Paris Biennale. The Syndicat along with Sanford L. Smith & Associates, a show producer for over 30 years, have joined forces to introduce a mixed art and design exhibition of the highest quality. This eclectic fair is bringing together international art and furniture dealers with the finest historic and modern art and design from Louis XIV to the present. (...)

En partenariat avec Sanford L. Smith & Associates, le Syndicat National des Antiquaires lance The Salon, un nouveau rendez-vous autour de l’art et du design.

Avis aux passionnés d’art et aux collectionneurs. Du 9 au 12 novembre 2012, The Salon : Art + Design/ NY éclot dans la grosse pomme. Créé sous l’impulsion de Sanford L.Associates et du Syndicat National des Antiquaires (la plus importante association professionnelle du marché de l’art en France), cet évènement met en vedette cinquante trois principaux marchands internationaux. Ils dévoileront leurs plus belles pièces (peinture, sculpture, art asiatique et africain, mobilier, arts décoratifs), comme ce bureau dos d’Ane Louis XV de 1742 (Galerie Kraemer) , ou cette table Taj Mahal imaginée par le Studio Job en 2012 (Carpenters Workshop Gallery).

Elisa Seydi

The Salon : Art + Design, du 9 au 12 novembre 2012,
The Park Avenue Armory,
643 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065, États-Unis
Thesalonny.com/

Bureau dos d’Ane Louis XV de 1742 © Stamped by Jacques Dubois (Master Ebéniste in 1742) (© Galerie Kraemer)

A new art and design fair comes to the Armory this November

Mark your calendars: There’s a new fair in town, and this one has a decidedly French accent. “The Salon: Art & Design,” at the Park Avenue Armory, will bring a number of esteemed French and European dealers to New York, many of them exhibiting here for the first time. A partnership between France’s Syndicat Nationale des Antiquaires and fair organizer Sanford Smith, the Salon will feature furniture, modern and contemporary art, and Asian and ethnographic art, uniting dealers from both the U.S. and Europe in a high-quality, eclectic showcase. “The Salon will include some of the world’s most prestigious dealers, 20 of whom just participated in the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris,” says Christian Deydier, president of the Syndicat. “For a very long time, American collectors have traveled to Europe and established long-lasting relationships with dealers from the SNA, and a large number have also been visiting the Biennale over the years. We feel it’s nice for the SNA to come and meet these collectors in their own country, as well as to attract new ones.”

The SNA had been exploring the possibility for a while. Once the idea for the Salon was hatched, “a lot of our members very rapidly expressed their interest,” says Deydier. Among the notable European exhibitors are L’Arc en Seine, Galerie Berès, Galerie du Passage, Galerie Vallois, Galerie Gmurzynska, Modernity, Alain de Monbrison, and, of course, Christian Deydier. New York dealers include James Goodman, DJL Lalique, and Barry Friedman. “It will be interesting to see the dialogue that will take place between the American and the European dealers, all united by their love and passion for their work,” adds Deydier.

The fair kicks off with a preview night gala on November 7 to benefit the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, an organization that serves more than 12,000 disadvantaged New York youths with educational and physical education programs. The chair of the benefit committee is Jacques Grange, so it promises to be as stylish as it is worthy. Gala tickets start at $250 and daily admission is $20.

“The Salon: Art & Design,” November 8–12, Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York, New York, 212-616-3930; thesalonny.com

A new art show in NYC.

Like a chic, one-stop decorating shop, Sanford Smith and France's Syndicat National des Antiquaire's debut furniture and art show is bringing together hundreds of works from 53 international dealers — including many who have never before shown in the United States — that span style, era, and genre.

Recognizing today's demand for interior design that has a layered, collected look, the fair will feature modern works from 1890 through the present, along with ethnographic art. Booths at The Salon: Art + Design might pair, say, Art Deco chairs by Pierre Chareau with a contemporary painting by Max Ernst near modern Japanese stoneware.

Exhibitors include L’Arc en Seine-Paris, Barry Friedman/Friedman Benda-New York, and Modernity-Stockholm, with some spaces curated by top decorators, such as Patrick Hourcade.

The fair runs November 8-12 at the Park Avenue Armory, with a gala preview November 7 benefiting the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club. Daily admission is $20 ($10 with a student ID). For more information, visit thesalonny.com.

Image: Carlos Enríquez. Mulata a la Luz de la Luna (Mulatto Woman Under the Moonlight), 1952. Oil on canvas. 29 ¼ x 24 inches