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Furniture designer Dakota Jackson is also the designer in residence for
Steinway & Sons, and he led a discussion of the ways in which people
experience design. A reception by Boston gallery M-Geough Co. in its own
booth followed his talk. M-Geough showed examples from Jackson’s new
“Symphony Collection.”
Glen Leroux of Glen Leroux Antiques, Westport, Connecticut, chatted with a client.
Rebecca Skinner’s
The
Stairway
, a 36" x 24"
photograph on aluminum,
was tagged $750 from
Fountain Street Fine
Art, Framingham,
Massachusetts. Skinner
often photographs
abandoned sites, with
haunting results.
Renjeau Galleries, Natick,
Massachusetts, showed
Stephen Rostler’s
A Matter
of Perspective
, a 30" x 20"
photograph on paper, tagged
$1800. Robert Rosenfield,
principal of Renjeau, views
shows in the vein of the Boston
Home Décor Show as an
opportunity to enlighten and
educate the next generation
about the arts. The Renjeau
booth certainly attracted an
attentive and interested group.
Landry & Arcari, Boston, Salem, and Framingham, Massachusetts.
Leonards Antiques, Seekonk, Massachusetts, refits and restores beds using vintage
bedposts, rails, and headboards in the process. Leonards also sells antiques. The
19th-century Dutch embossed cushion mirror was tagged $8200, and the 18th-century
Dutch inlaid marquetry tall chest was priced at $6800.
Avon, Connecticut, gallery Old Village Antiques sells
furniture and decorations from the 18th to the 20th
centuries and showed an arresting group of examples.
The large Meissen covered tureen with an underplate,
dating from 1900 to 1920, was hand painted and tagged
$695. The pattern had been used as a luncheon service
in one of the Vanderbilt cottages. Two oil on board
portraits signed by New York artist Hulda Parton
Walton (1879-1962) were available. Her oil on board
portrait of a girl was tagged $695, and her portrait of a
boy was tagged $650. A pair of French-style chairs (not
shown) in blue paint, circa 1940, was $450.