Young Collectors Night at the WAS

Please click the image to see my pick item from Young Collector's Night as described on Thomas Jayne's Blog, Decoration Ancient and Modern

Photo credit New York Social Diary

I noticed a pattern...

After leaving the Winter Antiques Show I scrolled back through the images on my phone and noticed there was a definite trend to the objects I photographed...

 An ancient torso...

A John Singer Sargent portrait...

An Art Deco mirror...

And a Rockwell Kent...

I really didn't know I was this predictable. 

Oh well, I guess there are worse things to be attracted to.

Neo-Regency Hair

I've always loved men's hair from the Regency period... so wild and untamed, but at the same time so calculated and deliberate... I've been attempting it for a while now, but just can't get it right on my own...

 

Prince Regent George IV had the right idea...  and so did this little article...

 

... and so did the costume directors of Vanity Fair...

 

...Colonel Thomas Pinckney, Jr. was obviously very stylish as seen in this c. 1801-2 miniature from the Gibbes Museum, recently on display at the Winter Antiques Show...

 

Neo-Regency hairstyles from a recent Burberry Prorsum show... amazing how right at home these hair styles would have been 200 years ago... now it's time for me to master it for the upcoming Charleston International Antiques Show Preview Party...

Things I Need NOW

 I love this antique harp case from Jayson Home & Garden an amazing online home store with the greatest new and vintage furniture...

 and this awesome little black bird from 1st Dibs...

 and I can't really imagine a more amazing mirror than this Fornasetti faux malachite and Greek key mirror...

if I can't have a live peacock, then I could definitely learn to be happy with this taxidermied one instead...

 and I could always make room for a gilt serpent... especially when there are two in twined around a convex mirror...

 

and I still haven't recovered from Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz's antique wallpapers... she had a similar grisaille panel in her WAS booth as this French 19th century panel made by J. Dufour that I found on this amazing blog.

The Park Avenue Winter Antiques Show

The Park Avenue Winter Antiques Show is one of my favorite events. It's worth visiting just to see some of the period Aesthetic Movement rooms. The building is in the process of being restored, but I love it as is.

The loan exhibition this year was done by Historic Charleston Foundation which included one of my favorite Charleston paintings:

Portrait of Mrs. Robert Gilmor, Jr by Thomas Sully, 1823 

 Most of the dealers are amazing, these three were my favorites:

	Antique photography from Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs These amazing vintage lamps from Liz O'Brien
	and my favorite dealer, Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz with her amazing antique wallpaper.