Amtique & Garden Show 2012

Celebrating its 22nd year is the Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville,  scheduled February 10-12 at the Nashville Convention Center. Themed “Color Collective,” it will again bring renowned experts in antiques, gardening, the various fields of design, and art to Nashville.  The event features more than 150 exhibitors in the fields of antiques, decorative arts, and horticulture, amidst spectacular landscaped gardens.

Several exhibition gardens will be designed and implemented by Nashville’s leading landscape professionals to showcase the theme of this year’s show. Inspired by the fine design sense of one of the show’s advisors, Albert Hadley, Inc., or New York, it has grown in stature to become one of the Southeast’s most anticipated events.

The largest show of its kind in the nation, The Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville, benefits the Exchange Club Charities Inc. (Child Abuse Prevention Programs) and the Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art. In the past 19 years, more than $5 million has been raised by the show for its charities.

Attendees can purchase anything from plant materials to museum quality antiques from more than 150 antiques and horticulture dealers.

antique & garden show
location: Nashville Conv. Center
dates: February 10-12
hours: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Fri. & Sat, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun.
admission:$15 on site, $10 in advance
more information: www.antiquesandgardenshow.com

Ask An Expert

New this year is Ask An Expert, a series of two on-the-floor complimentary lectures featuring question and answr sessions as well as book signings. Interior designers Suzanne Rheinstein and David Kleinberg will speak at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.,. respectively.

Rheinstein, an internationally recognized interior designer and owner of Hollyhock, a renowned home furnishing and accessories shop, expresses her style as “fewer things, but better things.” Her rug collection for Lee Jofa will debut this year.

Over his 30-year career, Kleinburg has created a body of work that is wide-ranging in style yet always modern sensibility. This fall will see publication of Traditional Now: Interiors by David Kleinberg. His work is published in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House & Garden, House Beautiful, Veranda, and numerous other media outlets.

Lecturers
In addition, the 2012 Antiques and Garden Show lecture series will feature world-class lecturers, including Miles Redd, interior designer, and Nancy Goslee Power, landscape architect. Lectures are at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Friday, and tickets are $50 for individual lectures.

Raised in Atlanta, Redd moved to New York to study film at New York University. More interested in set design, he began working for antiques dealer John Russelli which served as a hands-on education in furniture and decorative arts. Later hired by decorator Bunny Williams, Redd honed his eye as a shopper and design assistant.

After a brief stint studying painting in Lacoste, France, Redd returned to New York and began decorating friends’ apartments. In 1998 Redd opened his own office in Noho. Having completed many New York apartments, Redd has also worked on a Miami Beach condominium, a Wyoming ranch home, and a farmhouse in southern France.  His work has been featured in New York magazine, Vogue, House Beautiful, Elle Decor, House & Garden, W, and Town & Country.  Redd was named creative director of Oscar de la Renta Home in 2003.

“Nancy Goslee Power is to landscape what Frank Gehry is to architecture,” famed California historian Kevin Starr once remarked. He described her style as “eclectic boldness.” Her ability to integrate cultural and landscape palettes, as well as her keen awareness of how people use space, enables her to create unique, visually striking, and well-received environments that place her as one of the great landscape designers working today.

Power was awarded the 1999 Henry Francis du Pont Medal in landscape architecture, she was an Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2004, and was the recipient of the 2005 House Beautiful Giants of Design Award. She is active in schoolyard garden organizations and serves on the boards of various public gardens.

Exhibits

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. Horticulture booths feature architectural elements for the house and garden, exquisite garden related furnishings, orchids, unusual plant material, and whimsical accessories for the home.
To purchase tickets to the Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville or for more information, call 615/ 352-9064 or visit www.antiquesandgardenshow.com. Follow the event on Twitter at twitter.com/antiquesgarden.