Scheduled February 5-8 at the Nashville Convention Center is the 19th annual Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville. Each year it has brought together nationally and internationally renowned experts and exhibitors in the fields of antiques, decorative arts, and landscape design.
This year’s show, carrying the theme Sustaining Beauty, will explore the luscious and inspiring possibilities of sustainable living and organic gardening.
“At the very heart of gardening and antiquing is a love of the world’s beauty and a desire to enrich it,” says Mary Jo Shankle, co-chair of The 2009 Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville. “Sustaining Beauty will explore the many ways we can preserve our future and our past without sacrificing exquisite taste and quality.”
The show’s featured lecturers are among the leading voices on gardening and historic preservation—David Howard, former head gardener for Their Royal Highnesses; Charles A. Birnbaum, president of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, and Barry D. Dixon of Barry Dixon Inc. They will offer their insights and ideas from the worlds of organic gardening, history, landscape and interior design.
Hailed as one of the most prominent antique and garden shows in the country, the show offers over 150 antique and horticultural booths and landscaped gardens. For the better part of two decades, the show has drawn attendees from all over the country and abroad to view spectacular gardens, hear extraordinary lectures, and see and purchase rare and beautiful antiques.
Antique booths will feature premier international and domestic dealers exhibiting stunning examples of porcelain, silver, jewelry, oriental rugs, paintings, and finely crafted furniture and lighting.
Several exhibition gardens will be designed and implemented by Nashville’s leading landscape professionals to showcase the show theme.
This year's entry garden is designed by Renny Reynolds, owner and operator of Hortulus Farm, and one of the nation's most renowned entertaining, gardening, and lifestyle experts. Guests entering the show floor will encounter this grand, stylized garden space that is at once traditional and futuristic.
The other five garden spaces are more the stuff of reality, taking their individual themes from five key needs of modern living: water, food, energy, shelter, and transportation.
Always a favorite among show goers are the horticulture booths which feature architectural elements for the house and garden, exquisite garden related furnishings, orchids, unusual plant material, and whimsical accessories for the home.
The Antiques & Garden Show benefits the Exchange Club Charities, Inc., and Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art.
Antiques & Garden Show
dates: February 5-8
location: Nashville Convention Center
hours:
Thur., Sat. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
admission: $15 at the gate $12 in advance
