The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show
21 – 27 October 2011
Established in 1989 The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show is recognised the world over as a premier showcase for exceptional quality works of art from antiquity to the present day. Featuring some of the world’s top dealers, The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show consistently attracts large crowds to enjoy and buy from a superb variety of items, including silver, sculpture, bronzes, furniture, carpets and textiles, jewellery, pictures, ceramics and glass. All works are for sale under the strictest vetting conditions.
AMONGST THE EXHIBITORS
We are delighted to be exhibiting at The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show from October 21st -27th at The Park Avenue Armory, New York.
www.ronaldphillipsantiques.com
Simon @Ronald Phillips
Director
Simon Phillips, has led the firm for the past fourteen years having taken over from his father Ronald. He was Chairman of the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair Executive Committee as well as the Allocations Board. Simon has specialised in advising private international collectors and building up several significant collections. He has overseen the rapid expansion of this business. He is also one of the founding members of Masterpiece Fair in June.
Ronald Phillips Ltd is one of the world’s finest antique dealers specialising in English antique furniture ranging from Queen Anne , George I , George II , George III , George IV and the Victorian period. We can help you furnish an entire house or supply you with selected pieces.
Our constantly changing stock of furniture in mahogany , walnut , satinwood and rosewood covers the styles from Rococo , Neo-Classicism to Regency . We have handled pieces by famous 18th century craftsmen including, Thomas Chippendale , William Linnell , Robert Adam , Matthew Boulton and Thomas Sheraton .
We have, by repute, the largest collection of 18th century mirrors and in our showroom we also exhibit a collection of 18th century glass including, chandeliers , wall lights and decanters . Our extensive clock and barometer department covers the distinguished makers,Knibb ,Quare , Delander , Adams , Ellicot , Waktkins and Tompion.
Tekin @ Ronald Phillips
Company Secretary, Clock and Barometer Specialist
Tekin Fuad, 49, with a background in marketing joined the firm in 1997 and was appointed company secretary in 1998. He established the company’s department dealing in 18th and 19th century clocks and barometers and oversees this area of the business.
The firm of Blairman was established in 1884, in Llandudno, on the North Wales coast. In those earliest days Harris Blairman dealt in contemporary, as well as old, decorative objects. He imported modern Dresden china and Noritake tea and coffee services; there were also nineteenth-century Japanese ivories and other decorative oriental items, such as were popularised by Liberty’s in London. In those early days, in addition to being a retailer, Harris Blairman, Martin Levy’s great grandfather, held auctions during the summer season, from premises at the end of the pier. The Llandudno shop is shown above with a parade passing the corner of Mostyn Street and Lloyd Street.
Harris was joined by his sons Philip and David. It is to Philip, shown here in his house in Cadogan Square towards the end of his life, that Blairman’s owes its development. At some point, probably the late 20s, having somewhat recovered from the traumas of active service in the Royal Flying Corp, Philip began to specialise in what today would be described as, ‘important’ furniture and works of art. By this stage not only had he set up premises in the northern spa town of Harrogate, but he had also established a showroom in London.
One of Philip Blairman’s greatest characteristics (apart from his love of fast cars) was his foresight and innovatory spirit. During the early decades of the twentieth century, considered wisdom had it that proper antique furniture more or less ceased to exist from any period after about 1800.
But then individuals such as the playwright Edward Knoblock, and the architects Gerald Wellesley and Albert Richardson began to take seriously objects from the Regency period. They had all, for example, made purchases of furniture designed by the early nineteenth-century connoisseur and collector Thomas Hope, from the Deepdene sale. Philip Blairman must, in some way, have picked up on this trend, and became perhaps the first dealer to make a speciality of this area. In fact Blairman was a buyer at the Hope Heirloom sales held in 1917 at Christie’s.
In 1949 Martin Levy’s father George decided to give up his burgeoning career as a cameraman with Ealing Studios. He joined Philip Blairman, a family friend, and from 1951 his father-in-law. Martin joined his father and mother (Philip’s daughter Wendy) in the mid-70s, and they enjoyed more than twenty years working together until George’s untimely death in 1996; Wendy died in 2006.
Blairman’s, celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2009, is currently run by Martin Levy and his wife Patricia
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Axel Vervoordt @ The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show
company towards its present position as an international leader in art, antiques
and interior design. The Belgian-based organization includes a team of nearly
100 highly skilled designers, art historians, architects, restorers,
craftspeople, project leaders and support staff with wide-ranging expertise in
pursuit of the company’s vision to create balance and harmony in timeless living
spaces.
Axel Vervoordt established his family-run business in 1968 and guided the
company towards its present position as an international leader in art, antiques
and interior design. The Belgian-based organization includes a team of nearly
100 highly skilled designers, art historians, architects, restorers,
craftspeople, project leaders and support staff with wide-ranging expertise in
pursuit of the company’s vision to create balance and harmony in timeless living
spaces.
The company’s multi-faceted services and endeavors include art and antiques,
archaeology, interior design, furniture design with the Home Collection, modern
and contemporary art through the Axel Vervoordt Gallery, property development
through Vervoordt Real Estate, as well as participating in major biennials and international art fairs.
The work of the Axel Vervoordt Company expresses a philosophy of life that was
central to the company’s origins and continues to guide all activities today.
With a taste that spans continents and centuries, it is the company’s belief
that all objects, regardless of their origin and value, are infused with a
timeless, universal beauty and an intrinsic purity that preserves their
contemporary relevance.
Axel Vervoordt continues to serve as éminence grise within the company as
well as the President of the Vervoordt Foundation. Continuing the family-run
traditions, his son Boris Vervoordt is the leader of company’s art and antiques,
home collection and interior design operations.
History
Founded in 1965, Hyde Park Antiques Ltd specializes in the finest 18th and early 19th century English furniture. Having an emphasis on the Georgian and Regency periods, the gallery 
offers both the experienced collector and the interested novice the opportunity to view the most extensive inventory in North America. To complement the furniture, Hyde Park also offers a wide selection of Chinese export porcelain and English ceramics, as well as a varied collection of paintings including sporting and marine art, landscapes and still-lifes.
836 Broadway
New York City 10003
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