The Winter Show 2025 is one of America’s leading antiques fairs. Many of the antiques are museum quality. Dealers are knowledgable and friendly. You can learn a lot talking with them. The people watching is great. It’s an Upper East Side social event, and a fun date.
The Winter Show benefits East Side House Settlement, a community services organization that serves Mott Haven, The Bronx and Northern Manhattan. eastsidehouse.org
The 71st Winter Show 2025
The 71st Winter Show 2025 antiques fair benefits East Side House Settlement with over 70 exhibitors from around the world and a special focus on Americana; at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, with an Opening Night Party on January 23 from 5-9pm, and the public show from January 24 – February 2, 2025 that opens at 12 noon; and a Young Collectors Night on January 30, 2025. From $30. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Highlights include African American, Argentine, French, French Canadian, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish antiques and galleries.
- Boccara Gallery of New York City is a tapestry gallery with a French dealer. 🇫🇷
- Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz of New York City is French wallpaper dealer. 🇫🇷
- Eguiguren Arte de Hispanoamérica is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, deals in silver and gold from Hispanic America, paintings, sculptures, art and equestrian silver from the Americas. Argentina is gaucho country, so this gets real interesting. eguiguren.com 🇦🇷
- Jonathan Boos of New York features a sculpture by Richmond Barthé, a leading Harlem Renaissance sculptor. 🇺🇸
- Galerie Léage is from Paris, France. 🇫🇷
- Galerie Nathalie Motte Masselink is from Paris, France. 🇫🇷
- Glass Past New York specializes in Italian glass from 1870-1970. 🇮🇹
- Leon Tovar of New York City is a Colombian art gallery. 🇨🇴
- Les Enluminures of New York City deals in Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. The old books are beautiful and tell wonderful stories. 🇫🇷
- Milford Antiquités is from Montreal, Canada. 🇨🇦
- Peter Finer of London, England deals in antique arms and armor. 🇬🇧
- São Roque from Lisbon showcases Portuguese art and antiques. 🇵🇹
The Winter Show
The Winter Show is America’s longest-running antiques fair. It also presents some fine art and design. Works are vetted for quality and authenticity. Most of the galleries are from New York City and London, with a sprinkling of dealers and antiques from other countries. The focus is generally on Americana, but there are wonderful European and some Latin American antiques as well.
The show was started by East Side House Settlement in 1954. Settlement houses are a New York City tradition that provide community services to help the newest New Yorkers get established in city life.
The first time I visited the show many years ago, I was struck by what was on sale. You could buy the personal possessions of kings and queens of Europe. Along with the usual swords, chests and thrones, one object sticks in my mind. It was a chastity belt from medieval Spain. Who knew such a thing actually existed? The iron underwear literally had jagged metal teeth around its main opening. Anyone who wore it would most likely hurt themselves.
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