GardenNews.biz – Dec 11,2012 – Antiques Garden Fair Features Interior Designer Michael S. Smith
Event Date:
Thursday, April 18, 2013 – Sunday, April 21, 2013
GLENCOE, Ill. –The Antiques Garden Fair returns for the 13th year to the spring-blooming grounds of the Chicago Botanic Garden on Friday, April 19, 2013, through Sunday, April 21, 2013, with a special preview evening on Thursday, April 18, 2013. More than 100 dealers from Europe and the United States scour the globe for months to find the best in antique garden furnishings, botanical art and home and garden design to sell during the Fair. Indoor display gardens will interpret the theme “Color in the Garden: An Artist’s View,” and will be donated and installed by premier landscape designers including Craig Bergmann Landscape Design, Inc., William Heffernan Landscapes, Mariani Landscape, The Organic Gardener, Maria Smithburg with Manfredini Landscaping Design and more.
Michael S. Smith, one of the most original and respected talents in the design industry today, will be the Fair’s honorary chair and guest lecturer. Smith’s style is a seamless blend of European classicism and American modernism. It is always fresh, always evolving and always underscored by the belief that everyone should live with things they love. In 2010, Smith was appointed by President Obama to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House. The lecture is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Friday, April 19.
The second guest lecturer will be Charles Stick, a renowned Virginia landscape designer who grew up in Western Springs, Illinois. One of the country’s leading classicists, Stick was highly influenced by Dan Kiley to go into landscape architecture, and formed his philosophy of design at the University of Virginia. As quoted in a recent profile in Garden Gun, Stick said that, “in my mind, beauty has very little to do with fashion. Fashion is transient. Beauty has more to do with an understanding of history.” The lecture is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 20.
Tickets purchased on or before April 18 for either the Smith or Stick lecture are $65 ($60 in advance for Garden members); after April 18, they are each $70 ($65 for Garden members). A combination ticket for the Smith and Stick lectures is available for $105 ($100 for Garden members). The lecture ticket purchase includes a three-day Fair pass.
At 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 21, Jeanne Pinsof Nolan from The Organic Gardener will speak. Nolan, a well-known educator, author and consultant, has helped hundreds of families develop gardens that are beautiful, productive and uniquely suited to their homes and lifestyles. Tickets purchased for Nolan’s lecture on or before April 18 are $30 ($25 in advance for Garden members); after April 18 they are $35 ($30 for Garden members). The lecture ticket purchase includes a one-day Fair ticket for Sunday.
Shoppers on the hunt for classical and contemporary furnishings, botanical art and jewelry will find a variety of treasures in every price range. Staged in the Regenstein Center with tents over the Esplanade,
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