The 2014 Winter Antiques Show, held January 24-February 2 presents Expert Eye, a seven-part lecture series, featuring renowned experts in their fields speaking on their recently published books. Book signings will follow each lecture. Topics range from iconic World War II documents to interior designer Brian McCarthy’s discussion on building a global collection.  All lectures take place in the Tiffany Room at the Park Avenue Armory, 67th Street and Park Avenue, New York City. Seating is on a first-come basis and is complimentary with admission to the Show.

On Saturday, January 25 at 5:30 p.m. Kenneth W. Rendell will present The Words of War: Fifty Iconic World War II Documents That Changed the World.  From the handwritten rage of Hitler's earliest anti-Semitic rant, unfolded recently from a drawer in his office, to the wonderfully human letters of Dwight Eisenhower to his wife, expressing his deepest personal feelings as the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies, Kenneth Rendell will talk about how the fifty documents in his latest book survived to tell the real stories of these world changing events. 

Winter Antiques Show exhibitor Carswell Rush Berlin will present 'A Shadow of A Magnitude': Thomas Cook & Richard Parkin: Philadelphia Cabinet Makers of the Classical Period on Tuesday, January 28 at 2:30 p.m. Based on an article published in the 2013 issue of American Furniture, this slide lecture will re-establish Cook & Parkin in the firmament of important and successful cabinetmakers of their period.  By examining how they were perceived by their peers and clients in their own day, and evaluating the broad and impressive collection of their known work, it becomes clear that they should be elevated to the stature accorded to their better known competitors.

Collecting Relationships: Portrait Miniatures and the Cleveland Museum of Art will be presented by Cory Korkow (Curator, The Cleveland Museum of Art) on Wednesday, January 29 at 5:00 p.m. One of the finest collections in North America, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s 170 portrait miniatures span six centuries and bridge nine countries. Curator Cory Korkow will speak about the colorful history of Cleveland’s miniatures, her five years of detective work, and the innovative exhibition Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives, which reawakens the spirit of these works removed by hundreds of years from the hands into which they were originally placed. This lecture is sponsored by Elle Shushan and The Magazine Antiques.

Michael Cohen, of Cohen + Cohen, will present The Purple Foliage Workshop on Thursday, January 30 at 12:30 p.m. The lecture presents an accumulation of evidence of an enamelling workshop in Canton (active between 1755 and 1795) that produced work of exceptional quality for The Honourable East India Company to special order. By examining this evidence, the accepted wisdom that the quality of enamelling fell significantly in the late eighteenth century, is disproved.

On Friday, January 31st at 2:30 p.m., Sandra Hindman of Les Enluminures will present Books of Hours Reconsidered. The lecture will offer a snapshot of some of the most exciting finds in the ground-breaking and newly published book of the same title, as well as explore (and explain) the appeal of the Book of Hours from the Middle Ages to the present day. 

Brian J. McCarthy will present A Grand Tour of Design: Collecting Across the Globe, a lecture based on his fall 2013 book Luminous Interiors, on Saturday, February 1 at 2:30 p.m.  Brian welcomes a client who shares his passion for travel and collecting and nowhere was this more evident than in the home he created for one adventurous couple in Atlanta. Together, they crossed the Atlantic back and forth 35 times to create their fantasy home, and Brian will take you along for the ride as he shows you a collection amassed from France, Italy, Belgium and Holland. Learn from his advice on how to scout while traveling and his personal tips for collecting pieces that have real history, presence, and impact. 

The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany will be presented by Tiffany scholar and author Paul Doros on Saturday, February 1 at 4:00 p.m. Louis Tiffany considered the blown glass vases produced by Tiffany Studios among his finest artistic accomplishments. Mr. Doros will present a history of Tiffany, the men responsible for making the objects, and examples of some of the glasshouse’s finest work. 

Other special events at the 2014 Show include the Opening Night Party on January 23, the inaugural 1stdibs Design Friday on January 24, Young Collectors Night on January 30, and an Expert Eye Lecture Series with Book Signings. Click here for details and a complete schedule. 

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