AmericanaWeek.com, the innovative one-stop website that launched last year to show the entire scope of AmericanaWeek is teaming up with ArtandDesign20.com to provide expanded coverage of January 2013’s Winter Antiques Weeks in New York and Florida.

Regina Kolbe, President of Antiques Weeks Media, LLC, added that events of Old Masters Week  will also be featured on ArtandDesign20.com.  “Rather than creating a separate site, we’ll pair masterworks with contemporary, just as the collectors do.”

Ms. Kolbe added that the sites are responsive to the needs of today’s buyers who are eclectic in their tastes and mix periods and genres. They are responsive to the needs of sellers by cross-promoting their galleries, antiques shows and art and design fairs with ads and articles.

In recent years a majority of antiques shows and art and deisgn fairs have expanded the timeline of goods exhibited to include the 1970s.  The variety of dealers exhibiting at the January fairs has triggered a grass roots campaign to rebrand Americana Week as Winter Antiques Weeks.

“Wherever you look, sellers are searching for ways to broaden the base of buyers. From the UK effort “Antiques Are Green” to Young Collectors events to the decision to allow mid-20th C. items in traditional shows.  Everyone wants new buyers.”

AmericanaWeek.com and ArtandDesign20.com deliver new audiences by engaging people by their passion. They immerse viewers – whether new buyers or seasoned collectors – in relevant content. "The rate of monthly visitors substantiates this year round,” Ms. Kolbe said.

AmericanaWeek.com and ArtandDesign20.com work in tandem. The sites are linked to create a cross-disciplinary loop that allows viewers to “peek” at expanded categories, and to provide advertisers with an expanded viewership.

Stella Show Mgmt., producers of Antiques at the Armory, the Caskey-Lees organization, producers of the New York Ceramics Fair, Heritage Auctions, and a select group of dealers including FISHER-HERITAGE, Jeff Bridgman Antiques, Dalton’s American Decorative arts are supporters of the sites.

AmericanaWeek.com launched last year as an independent campaign to increase interest in American fine art, the decorative arts and folk art. After a successful launch and strong traffic, it was repostioned as a year-round resource for buyers, with an emphasis on the January shows.   ArtandDesign20.com launched later in the year to provide buyers of 20th C. art and design with access and achieved early recognition from a strategic media partnership with The Salon: Art + Design as well as guest posts by Maureen Stanton, award winning author of "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money."

For more on the sites, or to advertise, please contact Antiques Weeks Media, LLC, 212-665-6773 or email regina@antquesweeksmedia.com