Macklowe Gallery is the world's premier dealer of museum-quality Twentieth Century Decorative Arts. For over 40 years we have specialized in French Art Nouveau furniture and objects, Tiffany lamps and glass, French cameo glass by Daum and Gallé, bronzes, ceramics, lithographs, and fine antique and estate jewelry.
Over the years purchases have been made by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Virginia Museum, the Detroit Museum, the Denver Museum, the Cleveland Museum, the Dayton Museum, the Nassau County Museum, the Corning Museum, the Houston Museum, the Chrysler Museum, the Australian National Gallery and others.
Well dear clients and friends your intrepid Art Nouveau travelers were at it again recently, dropping in last month to see our friends at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. The VMFA is the third and final stop for the exhibition entitled “Tiffany: Color and Light” that began last September in Paris and spent the winter in Montreal.
Macklowe Gallery is proud to have lent a rare “Woodbine” table lamp for the exhibition, as well as arranging for unusual mosaic and turtleback inkwells to be lent by a generous private collector.
And what an exhibition it is, brilliantly curated by Rosalind Pepall of the Montreal Museum, Alice Cooney Freylinghuysen of the Metropolitan Museum, and independent curator and all-around charmer Martin Eidelberg. There is a richly illustrated catalogue, but you really need to see the pieces in person to get the full experience as the curators intended. The exhibition is brilliantly laid out and takes advantage of the McGlothlin wing, part of the VMFA’s new 165,000 square foot expansion.
Hillary and I were lucky enough to attend the opening evening, and let me tell you friends, Virginians know how to throw a party! All the patrons were dressed up in festive black tie, enjoying the exhibition while the champagne was flowing. The dinner was beautifully presented and far more delicious than any I’ve had at catered events in New York, but all this was just the backdrop. My “dinner partner” seated just to my right was none other than Frances Lewis herself! She regaled me with stories of how she and Sydney discovered this or that masterpiece, whether it was at Macklowe Gallery or in the finest galleries in Paris. Seated across from us was John Snow, who may not ring your “Tiffany bell” but was generous enough to have left his position as Chairman of the railroad company CSX to be Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush. He was less interested in talking about himself than about the Leonard Cohen concert he and his wife had recently attended, which got us into a table-wide discussion of what’s good in music today. I never thought I would be recommending Ron Sexsmith and Julian Coryell to the former Secretary of the Treasury, but there we were just having a grand time.
Before dessert there was a performance given in which a dancer, clad in flowing white, the gauzy fabric concealing wooden poles that extended from her hands at least 3 feet, performed a dance “a la Loie Fuller”. Many of you know the original Loie Fuller from the various bronzes of her by Raoul Larche and images of her done by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and other artists of fin-de-siècleParis. Hers was a dance of metamorphosis, and this evening the dancer came to life as colored light images of Tiffany lampshades were projected onto her, turning her into a dragonfly one moment and a magnolia blossom in the next.It was such an unexpected and ethereal moment of beauty, and a highlight of the evening.
The Museum was a natural fit for the Tiffany exhibition, as it happens to have the country’s very best permanent collection of 20th Century Decorative Arts, with an emphasis on French Art Nouveau and Art Deco furniture and objects and Tiffany Studios lamps and glass. There are pieces here you just won’t see anywhere else, collected with great passion by Sydney and Frances Lewis. They were aided by our dear departed friend Frederick Brandt, who was the long-time curator of this department.Barry Shifman is the “new” curator and has ably filled Fred’s shoes, taking the collection forward with a discerning eye.
The loan exhibition “Tiffany: Color and Light” runs only until August 15th, so run don’t walk and make plans to visit. I would love to lead a group there and I know we would be treated to true Southern hospitality, so let this be an open invitation to all of you for one of the weekends in August. If enough people wish to convene in Richmond to see the show and the Museum’s permanent collection, we can plan a weekend’s activities to accompany it. Please email me at the Gallery if you are interested and we’ll see what we can do.
On another note, Macklowe Gallery is going to be closed Saturdays this summer starting June 26. We will be closed for vacation June 28 and reopening July 12.Lloyd, Lary and I will be exhibiting in Aspen during that time, so come on out to God’s country and say hi.
Aka, Ben Macklowe makes a brief visit to The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht.
So your intrepid Art Nouveau traveler was recently at it again, flying in commando-style for a one-day whirlwind tour of The European Fine Art Fair, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands. After a cramped overnight flight
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Palm Beach Daily News - By DARRELL HOFHEINZ
Home & Loggia Editor
Friday, February 05, 2010
With more than 180 exhibitors filling the Palm Beach County Convention Center, next week's Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show promises plenty of rare and collectible merchandise in a wide range
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Artdaily.org - Rare finds abound at The American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF), slated for February 3-8, 2010 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. The only American international art and antiques fair rated 5-stars by The Art Newspaper, AIFAF has established itself as a premier destination
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New York Times - Just the Place to Find an Egyptian Sarcophagus
By Ken Johnson
If you are in the market for a 14,000-pound, six-foot-tall urn carved from a block of pink Tennessee marble and encircled by a neo-Classical frieze of Indians hunting buffalo and engaging in intertribal warfare, hurry over
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NY Daily News - By William Sherman
An A.D. 100 Roman torso of Hercules: $1.2 million; Abraham Lincoln's letter chastising a Civil War general: $675,000; an American chest of drawers, circa 1785: $495,000. The items are among more than $300 million worth of rare art, jewelry and antiquities for sale
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The Magazine Antiques - There is no arguing with the idea that the Winter Antiques Show, which opened last night at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, is the BIG one. Now in its fifty-sixth year, its seventy-five dealers from around the world are showcasing some of the very best in the decorative arts,
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Greenwhich Citizen - And the buyers were back!
By Anne W. Semmes
A rich array of the decorative arts took center stage over the weekend at the 52nd annual Greenwich Antique Show held at the Old Greenwich Civic Center, with more in the mood to buy this year. There were upscale items aplenty with price
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Latin American Art -
Palm Beach, FL – December 22, 2009 – More than 30 new exhibitors will join an exclusive list of returning galleries at the six-day American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF), February 3-8 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. AIFAF, the only international art
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The American International Fine Art Fair
Palm Beach County Convention Center
February 3 – 8
A few weeks later, the American International Fine Art Fair takes over. Now in its 14th year, the event attracts a well-heeled international crowd with treasures that span time and space, from ancient
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Macklowe Gallery's own Bejamin Macklowe was recently interviewed for the article "Mad About The Sixties" in the December issue of Rapaport Magazine, out now. Ben shares his extensive knowledge about the trends and styles of that changing decade, as well as some of the jewelry designers he believes
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Art & Antiques Weekly - LOS ANGELES-
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced the joint purchase of an iconic chair designed by groundbreaking English architect, graphic artist, and craftsman Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851–1942).
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Antiques & The Arts Online - DALLAS - The Dallas Museum of Art has acquired a major work for its decorative arts collection: a corner chair with sinuous fretwork design by Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936). It is one of the most inventive and whimsical examples of household furniture by one of America's
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Art Knowledge News - LONDON- Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and independent charity The Art Fund today announce the return of a lost treasure to the Museum – a gold mourning ring containing a lock of Napoleon’s hair, one of Sir John Soane’s prized possessions. This acquisition
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For those of you looking to gauge the current state of the market in fine and decorative arts, look no further than Macklowe Gallery's participation in "Modernism: A Century of Style and Design" which took place last week at New York's 7th Regiment Armory.
After skipping one year, we decided
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PR Newswire - NEW YORK, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Winter Antiques Show celebrates its 56th year as America's most prestigious antiques show, providing museums, established collectors, dealers, design professionals and first-time buyers with opportunities to see and purchase exceptional pieces showcased
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Art Knowledge News - NEW YORK, NY.- Sanford L. Smith & Associates’ two fall fairs become one superlative art and design event this year. In the past, ART20 occupied the historic Park Avenue Armory in early November, with Modernism directly following.
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Dave Itzkoff for the New York Times
Put the filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas together and you are certain to get something that is very costly and deeply nostalgic. Their latest collaboration, however, isn’t a science-fiction adventure or another “Indiana Jones” sequel,
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that Don Bacigalupi has been appointed director of the museum, and will start in late-October 2009. Since 2003, Bacigalupi has served as president, director, and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art. Alice Walton, founder and chair of the board, made
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Macklowe Gallery’s Tiffany Mosaic week has come to a close, and we are proud to announce that it was a great success! After months of planning the week kicked off with a book signing featuring author Edith Crouch and her recently published “The Mosaics of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
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What a great weekend I had as a judge for the American Gem Trade Association’s “Spectrum Awards”! I was asked by Robert Bentley (www.robertbentelygemstones.com), Chairman of AGTA to be one of six judges for this prestigious juried competition.
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Macklowe Gallery is excited to be included on an upcoming segment of the Martha Stewart show. The segment will feature pieces from the book “Chairs” by Judith Miller. Ms. Miller selected three chairs from Macklowe Gallery for inclusion in her book, including a lovely
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"Working closely with the MC fashion team and stylist Leslie Fremer on our cover shoot, Ashley brought to life her vision of a light and airy yet intimate portrait. Antiqued silk and lace lingerie were a nod to the 1930's, while nubby sweaters kept the looks grounded in modernity. Vintage-inspired
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From Ben Macklowe's Travel Log: - I was starting to get embarrassed whenever clients would ask me about the birthplace of French Art Nouveau, so Hillary and I decided to visit Nancy during our recent trip to France. With our friend Amelie Marcilhac, who has written extensively on the works of such Art
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Artdaily.org Summer 2009 -
The Georges de La Tour Museum in Vic-sur-Seille, a site owned by the Moselle Conseil Général, is paying homage to Emile Gallé (1846-1904), who founded the École de Nancy in 1901. He was committed to regenerating the arts of decoration, and
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Artdaily.org June 2009 - The Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau is giving Frank Lloyd Wright fans around the world the opportunity to "Win the Ultimate Frank Lloyd Wright Weekend in Buffalo." The winner of the contest will receive the extremely rare experience of spending two nights
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The Minneapolis Post, May 18, 2009 - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts announced today that the museum has hired Eike Schmidt to take the helm as curator of the institution's decorative arts department. Schmidt is internationally known for his expertise in European sculpture: He was associate curator
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Reseau Art News, May 12, 2009 - The restoration work of the Residence Major Pessoa in Aveiro has just come to an end. Built in 1909, the Casa Major Pessoa is one of the most remarkable Art Nouveau buildings in the city of Aveiro, a town that is especially well known in Portugal for its representative
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The New York Times, May 6, 2009 - For some people, the notion that any chair, let alone one upholstered in puffy brown leather with dragon-shaped arms and offered for sale during an economic crisis, might be worth $28.3 million would be far-fetched. Robert and Cheska Vallois, however, recently paid that
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The Art Newspaper May 29, 2009 - No other city in the world is more closely associated with the art of glassmaking than Venice, so it is fitting that "Glass Stress", a new survey of modern and contemporary glass art, opens on 6 June. The show brings together commissioned pieces by artists such
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National Jeweler Network, May 2009 - The World Gold Council's "Leaves of Change" celebrity-designed jewelry collection raised tens of thousands of dollars for charity last night, with actresses Brooke Shields and Marcia Gay Harden showing their support by wearing their own necklace designs to
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National Jeweler Network, May 2009 - U.S. retail store sales increased 0.5 percent last week compared with the same period the year before, the first positive year-over-year rating since early December 2008 and the largest since November 29, 2008, according to the latest study from the International Council
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The Columbus Museum, April 25, 2009 - Dr. Stephen Harrison, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Cleveland Museum of Art, addressed "Early Modernism in the Work of Louis Comfort Tiffany".
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Antiques and Fine Arts Spring 2009 - The Corning Museum of Glass has the largest and most comprehensive public collection of American glass in existence, with more than 20,000 pieces ranging in date from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Unlike cabinetmaking and silversmithing, glassmaking
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Crain's New York Business, March 20, 2009 - NEW YORK - The Pierre Hotel is gearing up for its re-opening in June after a $100 million renovation that closed the stately property more than a year ago. Owned by Taj Hotels Resorts and Palace of India, The Pierre embarked on the revamp during much better
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WWD, March 19, 2009 - "A jewelry exhibition at Les Arts Décoratifs that kicked off March 19, 2009 is billed as the first show ever dedicated to a niche band of jewelry designers who, having bloomed in the Thirties, straddled the Art Deco and Modernist periods. The exhibition culminates in
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Jewelers Circular Keystone, Feb 01, 2009 - World renowned expert on Art Nouveau Jewelry, Dr. Joseph Sataloff, died on Sept. 26. He was 89 years old. Dr. Sataloff of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb, was first and foremost a physician, an Otolaryngologist.
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As reported by Maine Antiques Digest, on December 18, 2008 Sotheby's New York sold a rare Tiffany Studios "Pebble" lamp for $746,500. While this was a world record price for this model, it also represented a shrewd investment by its consignor, who had acquired the lamp from Macklowe Gallery,
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Despite the gloomy economic back-drop that has rattled even the wealthiest Americans, there were brisk sales at David Lester's latest acquisition, the newly renamed American International Fine Art Fair.
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Article by Souren Melikian from International Herald Tribune. Business is blooming against all odds in the art market when the rest of the world economy shrinks.
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Macklowe Gallery is the world's premier dealer of museum-quality Twentieth Century Decorative Arts. For over 40 years we have specialized in French Art Nouveau furniture and objects, Tiffany lamps and glass, French cameo glass by Daum and Gallé, bronzes, ceramics, lithographs, and fine antique and estate jewelry.
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