Evening kicks off 60th Year Diamond Jubilee and raises funds for East Side House Settlement

The Opening Night Party held on Thursday, January 23—with Winter Antiques Show Committee Chairman Arie L. Kopelman, Vice Chairs Lucinda C. Ballard and Michael R. Lynch, Opening Night Party Chairs Kelly C. Coffey, Deputy CEO, J.P. Morgan U.S. Private Bank, and Barry Sommers, CEO Chase Consumer Banking—was attended by more than 2,000 people from the worlds of art and antiques, design, business, and philanthropy. The evening provided an opportunity for guests to view and purchase the highly coveted objects before the Show officially opened to the public on January 24th. Guests also viewed this year’s special loan exhibition, Fresh Take, Making Connections at the Peabody Essex Museum, which features more than 50 paintings, sculptures, textiles and decorative objects from one of America’s oldest and fastest growing museums.

In honor of this year being the Winter Antiques Show’s 60th Year Diamond Jubilee, Graff, Chanel, Tiffany & Co., and Bulgari have come together in an unprecedented collaboration to exhibit an extraordinary array of jewels. Attendees were also the first to see Queen Victoria’s diamond and sapphire tiara, exhibited for the first time outside the United Kingdom, on loan from a private collection by arrangement with Wartski, London.

Sponsors include J.P. Morgan, Chubb Personal Insurance, 1stdibs, The Magazine Antiques and Antiques & Fine Art. Proceeds from the Opening Night Party and Show benefit the East Side House Settlement, which provides access to quality education and technology training as gateways out of poverty to students in the South Bronx, one of the nation’s poorest congressional districts.  

Notable attendees include: Irene Roosevelt Aitken, Lucinda and Robert Ballard, Henri Barguirdjian, Carrie Rebora Barratt, Anne Bass, CeCe Black, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Linda Buckley, Robert and Honorable Anne Cox Chambers, Stephanie and Fred Clark, Edith and Philippe de Montebello, Barbara de Portago, Lisa and Michael Evans, Mark Gilbertson, Martha Glass, Karen Glover, Jamee and Peter Gregory, Jill Kargman, Coco and Arie L. Kopelman, Jerry Lauren, Ambassador and Mrs. John Loeb, Tara and Michael Rockefeller, Martha Stewart, Barbara and Donald Tober, Bunny Williams and John Rosselli, Adrienne and Gianluigi Vittadini and many more.

About the Winter Antiques Show: 

The Winter Antiques Show will run from January 24 to February 2, 2014, at the Park Avenue Armory, 67th Street and Park Avenue, New York City. Hours are 12:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. daily except Sundays and Thursday, 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Daily admission to the Show is $25, which includes the Show’s award-winning catalogue. To purchase tickets for the Opening Night Party on January 23, 2014, or Young Collectors Night on January 30, 2014, call (718) 292-7392 or visit this link on the Show’s website.

About East Side House Settlement:

East Side House Settlement was founded in 1891 to help immigrants and lower income families on the East Side of Manhattan. In 1962, it moved to the South Bronx where it serves 8,000 residents annually within one of America’s poorest congressional districts, the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx. Among the initiatives that focus on educational attainment as the gateway out of poverty is the innovative and highly acclaimed Mott Haven Village Preparatory School. For more information, please visit www.eastsidehouse.org.