DALLAS – Dallas Auction Gallery will follow their $1.6 million dollar Nov. 16 auction with an superb Fine and Decorative Art Auction on Feb. 29 during 6 p.m. Central. This sale will underline well-developed sealed French seat from a internal private collection. LiveAuctioneers.com will yield Internet live bidding.

The collection includes a Paul Sormani Louis XV-style commode, a Linke mahogany Louis XV-style vitrine, a Grohe Freres Louis XVI-style essay table, and an Andre Lardin Regence-style tulipwood commode.

Scott Shuford, boss of Dallas Auction Gallery, said, “We are gratified to offer an considerable collection of sealed French seat in this auction, along with a smashing brew of high-end paintings, excellent estate valuables and silver. Dallas Auction Gallery is looking brazen to celebrating a 10-year anniversary this year, and we are always welcoming peculiarity consignments for a 2012 auction schedule.”

Bidding is accessible live, by phone, by absentee bidding, or online by LiveAuctioneers.com.

Highlights from a Feb. 29 auction embody Lot 170, a Paul Sormani Louis XV-style commode, (Italian/French, 1817-1877). The close image of tip drawer stamped, “Paul Sormani 10r Charlot, Paris” and “P. Sormani Paris” hammered into a tip of a front legs underneath a marble. Provenance: Ex Coll: Baroness Leigh who confirmed residences in Geneva, Penzance and New York. By repute, this commode was purchased directly from Sormani in Paris in a 1860s for a family chateau in Geneva and after changed to Penzance. It has a $40,000-$60,000 estimate.

There will also be an Andre Lardin Regence-style tulipwood commode (Lot 156) with molded breche violette marble tip over dual short, dual prolonged and a tip tip core drawer. Having exuberant bronze pulls, escutcheons and mountings, a commode is hammered “Lardin” and “JME.” Andre Antoine Lardin was a Parisian cabinetmaker of a latter 18th century. The commode is estimated during $8,000-$12,000.

Lot 176 is an ivory inlaid oval made core list that facilities a bird’s-eye maple top. It is also estimated during $8,000-$12,000.

Artwork is paced by Henry Stull’s Heads Apart, an oil portrayal on board depicting a racer competition during Queens County Jockey Club on Oct. 25, 1898 between: Kinnikinic, Warrenton and Swiftmas. In a support measuring 38 inches high by 43 inches wide, a portrayal is sealed reduce right, “Henry Stull Copyright 1898.” The guess is $25,000-$35,000.

A Tiffany Co. mantel time with enameled emblem to a domed tip and 3 sides is in operative condition with pendulum and key. The round coronet French-style transformation with coiled drum strike on hour and half hour is marked, “Tiffany Compy 3965 7 7″ and a round symbol that reads, “Medaille d’Argent Vincenti 1855.” It carries a $4,000-$6,000 estimate.

A Tiffany-style stained potion window carrying 3 panels depicts a circuitous tide within a wooded landscape and a towering in a distance. A steel tab sealed is noted “Tiffany Studios New York” on reduce left panel. The support measures 69.5 inches high by 66 inches wide. It has a $5,000-$10,000 estimate.

For sum revisit a website: www.dallasauctiongallery.com or phone toll-free 866-653-3900

View a entirely illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live around a Internet as a sale is holding place by logging on to www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

By Janna Odenthal
Post-Tribune correspondent

February 20, 2012 3:36PM

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Haylee Corzan, an modernized art tyro during Chesterton Middle School in Chesterteron, Ind., adds touches to her storybook chair called “Where a Wild Things Are.” | Photo Provided

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Updated: February 21, 2012 2:03AM

While Mrs. Rabbit and her daughters collected berries, Peter Rabbit climbed into a cabbage patch of Mr. McGregor’s garden once again — this time on a children’s storybook chair.

Chesterton Middle School modernized art students embellished these scenes and other storybook characters on 20 wooden chairs as partial of a village use project. They were sole during a fund-raising eventuality to advantage Porter County Parents as Teachers organization.

“The chairs were positively beautiful,” pronounced art clergyman Jody Nix. “People unequivocally desired (the chairs). we consider it was a win, win, win for everybody. It was a corner effort, a labor of love.”

On a behind of a tan-colored chair, Curious George climbed opposite write wires. The chair was embellished with an picture of a gorilla being hauled divided by dual military men. The paintings prisoner a antics of a impression combined by author H.A. Rey.

One splendid immature chair was ornate with surprising dainty figures, identical to those found in Dr. Seuss books. Pink mottled creatures, bushy long-necked beings and little bird-like animals are famous by children and adults.

Another chair displays Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet and Eeyore surrounding Winnie a Pooh. On a chair back, Pooh is eating a play of honey.

Other chairs embody paintings from “Bad Kitty,” by author Nick Bruel, “Pinkalicious,” by Elizabeth Kann, “The Hungry Little Caterpillar,” by Eric Carle and other renouned children’s books.

Student Haylee Corzan embellished several chairs, including “Where a Wild Things Are,” by Maurice Sendak and others.

“When we take a certain volume of time on something we do, and you’re carrying fun while you’re doing it, we get trustworthy to it. So we didn’t wish to sell them during first,” Corzan said. “But it feels good to know that someone appreciates your work, and they wish it. we feel reputable that someone else has it.”

Westchester Public Library purchased 4 of a chairs for a children’s department. An picture from “Goodnight Moon,” by Margaret Wise Brown, adorns a chair during Thomas library in Chesterton. Hageman library in Porter chose “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” by Bill Martin Jr., and others.

Hageman bend manager Suzanne Chomel pronounced she favourite that a girl gave behind to a community.

“They’re unequivocally beautiful, and a children have enjoyed them,” pronounced Chomel. “The children use them for puzzles and games and coloring and homework. That has been fun.”

Student Emma Stricker combined Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” stage on a purple background. The Cheshire Cat grins on a chair of pinkish and lavender stripes.

“I like a characters and a colors in a book and a whole story line of how she falls into a whole enchanting world,” pronounced Stricker. “I favourite how we can renovate an aged wooden chair into a musical square of artwork. It feels good to assistance lift income for Parents as Teachers. we unequivocally enjoyed a whole project.”

The room on North Palafox Street in Pensacola is filled to a margin with damaged furniture, all orderly into neat piles according to type.

Tony Lee looks during a pieces, though he doesn’t see a teenager scratches or blank drawers. Instead, he sees potential.

“See this table?” he says, indicating during a marble-topped wooden dresser with a drawer missing. “I’m going to cut off a tip and reduce it. It’s going to happen. I’ll do it.”

Lee, 53, repairs and restores old, worn-out seat by FurnitureWorks, a module that teams homeless people looking for work with learned craftsmen to repurpose equipment that have been thrown divided or sole during preservation stores or flea markets.

FurnitureWorks was started in Nov by Rick Dye, “chief volunteer” of FaithWorks Interfaith Ministries, a nonprofit classification that provides housing, food and practice for homeless or low-income people in Northwest Florida.

FurnitureWorks is an enlargement of ReWorks, a module in that workers repurpose outside billboard materials into receptacle bags, booze bags and aprons.

After appropriation a former Superior Furniture room in November, FaithWorks combined a new module to concentration on correct damaged seat and offered it during ignored prices.

“We take existent element and put it together into a useful consumer product,” Dye said. “By itself it was headed to a dump, though together with a small bit of flair, it’s hip.”

Dye welcomes any homeless or low-income chairman who is peaceful to learn to correct and repurpose a furniture. He has 4 craftsmen, including Lee, who come on a unchanging basis.

The workers get 10 percent elect for any sale they make, and 50 percent for offered any square they repair. The pieces are sole true from a room and during Hermosa, a store in Cordova Mall.

Lee, an artist, pronounced he looks during a seat correct as “just another art project.”

One of his masterpieces facilities dual headboards combined to a behind of a list that was in pieces to emanate a entirely functional, aesthetically appealing square of furniture.

“I have to put damaged pieces behind to where a chairman would wish to buy it,” Lee said. “We make it affordable, though still raise it so that it will bedeck a room.”

Lee started with ReWorks as a seamster, though he pronounced it was a seat correct that unequivocally prisoner his attention.

“I like to stitch a small bit, and we did good,” he said. “But we kept conference those hammers and we unequivocally only wanted to get my hands dirty.”

Lee mostly works with Shedrick Smith, whom he met on a streets before mouth-watering him to join FurnitureWorks. Smith, 54, a Navy veteran, pronounced he was “almost destitute” before Lee pulled him in a month ago. Since then, he said, he’s creation adequate income to survive.

“People assisting people, that’s what it’s all about,” Smith said.

But a walls were bare.

“I said, ‘What about a walls?’ ” Angela Singer recalled. “She (the decorator) said, ‘That’s your department.’ “

So Singer visited a Scottsdale art gallery, where she got to articulate with a store owner, who let her take 5 paintings home to try out. She bought 4 of them, all by Mexican artists.

The year was 1952. The Singers have been collecting Mexican art — and other art — ever since.

Take a tour

Their home is one of 4 on a Feb. 26 Friends of Mexican Art home tour. The eventuality is a fundraiser for a group, that purchases Mexican art for Arizona museums, among other activities. The debate includes a Mexican mercado featuring art and gifts for sale.

Singer admits she has had fun decorating a walls of her and her husband’s 4,000-square-foot Paradise Valley home.

“It’s taken a lot of years,” she said.

Many of a pieces have been purchased while on trips, others by Friends of Mexican Art, to that a Singers have belonged given it started. They have met many artists and even had some of them to dinner.

There are paintings by a Mexican masters: Jos Luis Cuevas, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Zuiga.

There are statues, figurines, masks, crosses and printed books.

There even is a blueprint of Frank Sinatra finished by thespian Tony Bennett.

When we travel by a front door, a initial room we notice is a library with a endless collection of Day of a Dead statues interspersed among a books. Most total are personification low-pitched instruments and are organised as bands on a shelves.

“We were in a song business, so I’ve always had an affinity to low-pitched things,” Singer said. The integrate owned Circles Records Tapes, a downtown Phoenix establishment that sealed in 2010 after 38 years in business.

A German Polyphon song player, from 1885, decorates a vital room, that is opposite a front corridor from a library.

“They used to be in hotel lobbies, and people would dance to them,” Singer said, demonstrating a machine. “I bought it for Len as a Christmas gift. We played it all day long.”

The vital room is filled with colorful collections, from Russian lacquer boxes to sculptures — one depicting an Italian family, a other a Cuban family. Paintings by Spanish artist Alfredo Casteeda and Cuban artist Jose Toirac line a walls.

A large facade from Senegal, done of timber and flashy with shells and coronet bells, creates a matter on a coffee table. Colorful pillows are organised along a lavender sofa, that sits in front of a design window and is assimilated by dual tall-backed chairs in a rainbow print.

In a dining room, a 1920s inlaid cupboard binds a preference of MacKenzie-Childs glasses. They are usually partial of Singer’s collection of colorful hand-painted pottery and taste equipment from a Aurora, N.Y. company.

Standing out on a behind wall is design by a 4 Mexican masters.

Their work also is featured on one wall in a diversion room, that also houses a collection of masks from Mexico, Africa, Nepal and China, and a snooker table.

“When we built a house, we told Leonard he could have a pool table,” Singer said.

The diversion room is a renouned hangout when a couple’s 4 sons visit.

Other bedrooms and spaces include:

The kitchen, that was remodeled final summer. Some of a adobe blocks along one wall were taken out to dilate a room and emanate space for a tiny island.

A guest bedroom flashy with crosses and eremite icons and paintings. A collection of dolls adorns a bed, that is lonesome in a crocheted coverlet done of pieces of fibre done by Singer’s mother.

The gymnasium bathroom, that facilities a Tony Bennett work as good as smaller pieces of art on a walls.

The master apartment — a still shelter flashy in golds and creams during a side of a house.

An expansive, nonetheless private backyard with a built-in griddle and a lower-level pool area. A bronze statue graces a flower garden.

Reach a contributor during sue.doerfler@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8236.

On Friday, Feb 17, Suzanne Kasler, one of a chosen of America’s tip designers, will pronounce and pointer her latest book.

Suzanne Kasler is famous for her classically desirous rooms, flattering palettes and gentle spaces. She brings Southern charm, European sensibility, and a honour for architectural sum to her interiors. As a principal of Atlanta-based Suzanne Kasler Interiors, she mostly asserts that “a room should be collected, not decorated.” Incorporating a personal collections of her clients with excellent art and antiques, contemporary pieces and custom-designed seat creates Suzanne’s interiors meaningful. She is a connoisseur of a University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning, and her classical interiors have been featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, House Beautiful, House Garden, Southern Accents, Traditional Home and Veranda.

In a tumble of 2009, Rizzoli published Suzanne’s initial book, Inspired Interiors, featuring her “deft use of couture-like detailing, a penetrating clarity of high tone selections, and an cultured that seamlessly bridges American and European sensibilities.” In 2008, Suzanne launched a line of seat for Hickory Chair, along with a collection of lighting for Visual Comfort. Her signature character of infrequent magnificence has given been interpreted into a line of rugs with Safavieh, excellent art with Soicher-Marin, accessories with Ballard Designs and a fabric line with Lee Jofa.

In further to a renouned Guest Speaker event, a show’s report includes new offerings as good as annual favorites. Thursday, Feb 16th, a “Preview Party” offers a initial glance of all a show’s treasures. Enjoy an dusk of libations, tasty cuisine and entertainment. Friday is a large day with an early opening exclusively for designers and their clients. Friday evening, from 4 to 6pm, “Uncorked” will be an eventuality to emporium a uncover while enjoying booze and cheese. Saturday, Feb 18th, a ever-popular “In a Company of Experts” taps a believe of participating dealers for an ominous debate and breakfast experience. Saturday continues with a always sold-out “Mystery Home Tour”. Sunday’s eventuality brings out a gardener in all of us with a hands-on seminar called “Sunday Afternoon in a Garden”.

Daily offerings embody “Orchids in Bloom” and “Appraisal Days”, where family heirlooms can be verbally appraised by antiques consultant and Show Manager Charlie Miller; “Get Inspired! Designer Visions” charity uninformed decorating ideas for a garden and home by vignettes designed by area designers; “Look and Learn” assisting collectors boost their believe of equipment in their area of interest; and “The Potting Shed” an outward garden with an array of foliage, open blooms and outside accessories for sale to raise any home garden or interior.

Also, a “Council of 101 Tea Room” will be open via a show. Round out an beguiling day during a 2012 Antiques Vintage Garden Show with a revisit to a Tea Room for a tasty lunch or dessert.

Show Hours:

Friday: 10am – 6pm

Saturday: 10am – 5pm

Sunday: Noon – 5 pm

Proceeds from a eventuality advantage a Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 North Mills Avenue, Orlando, FL.

For sheet information, greatfully revisit www.omart.org or call 407 896-4231.

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By Diana Kuyper
Special to The News-Sun

February 16, 2012 6:30PM

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The Antioch Chamber of Commerce is mouth-watering artists to adorn Adirondack chairs for a third annual open art module called “Chillin’ on a Chain (of Lakes).” | Special to a News-Sun

ANTIOCH — Artists are indispensable by a Antioch Chamber of Commerce to adorn Adirondack chairs for a third annual open art module called “Chillin’ on a Chain (of Lakes).”

The module advantages Open Arms Food Pantry, Save-A-Pet, a Antioch Community High School grant account and other internal charities.

The singular flashy chairs, that will be displayed via Antioch during a summer, will be auctioned to lift income for charity. The past dual years of open art programs lifted some-more than $36,000 for internal organizations.

Artists have until Apr 13 to finish their chair designs, though contingency initial be “adopted” by a chair sponsor, pronounced Chamber Director Barbara Porch, who will contention a artist designs to intensity sponsors.

“Once a unite adopts a design, a artist will be told and given a tangible chair to decorate,” she said. “All adopted artists are awarded a $50 contribution as a appreciate we when they spin in a finished chair.”

The artists are also given a giveaway sheet to a “Chair-ity Dinner Auction” in a tumble when a chairs go on a live auction retard for charity.

Artists might contention as many designs as they would like. “We ask that designs be submitted as shortly as possible. Once a pattern is adopted, a artist has until Apr 13 to finish a chair,” pronounced Porch.

To get an artist packet, revisit a Antioch Chamber Web site during www.AntiochChamber.org and click on Chillin’ on a Chain 2012. For some-more information, call a Antioch Chamber during (847) 395-2233.

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For a past 22 years, a Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville has brought hundreds of thousands of visitors to Nashville, and they move their dollars to internal businesses. Design professionals get infinite impulse from a booths and blossoms, as good as contacts for probable destiny business. And vendors get an opening to deliver themselves to a slew of intensity customers.

Typically when a uncover comes around, a winter has prolonged ragged out a welcome. So a thesis about confidant and pleasing tone seemed usually fitting.

“When we were brainstorming about themes for a show, we only felt that by Feb everybody is prepared to see color,” says Sarah Bartholomew, who is co-chairing a uncover with Debbie Best. “It has been gray and pale and stormy and we are all meditative about a open gardens. We have been in a homes all winter and meditative about what we are going to do to debonair it up. We unequivocally suspicion tone would be a fanciful thesis around that to build this show.”

Big draw

The continue should be some-more than welcoming to a 10,000 visitors approaching to take in a three-day event, that was lonesome in sleet final year. Vendors from all over a nation will set adult booths, and internal landscape architects have been given dual tone pairings to work with when formulating a on-site gardens.

In fact, it is a largest uncover in a nation that combines gardens and antiques. This year a uncover is partnering with a renouned online oppulance marketplace 1stdibs.com.

“It is one of those things that puts a city on a map, and that is exciting,” Bartholomew says of a show. “It brings so many people to Nashville.”

Visitors will be means to squeeze a far-reaching operation of merchandise, including jewelry, rugs, paintings, seat and lighting. Kippie Leland, owners of Leland Interiors, once bought a outrageous set of 19th-century Irish terra cotta urns from a gallery in Chicago for a client’s sunroom. “They were substantially tighten to 5 feet tall,” Leland says.

Antiques, updated

Shopping for clients is only one of many reasons internal professionals strike a show. Networking and anticipating impulse for certain projects are others.

Over a past few years, there has been a pull to freshen a ideas of what antiques are, and a uncover this year will simulate that.

“Antiques are cyclical, and there are trends in antiques only like in furniture,” says Carolyn Kendall, owners of Alcott Interiors and an exhibitor during this weekend’s show. “The thought of antiques is changing a lot.”

The uncover advantages a Exchange Club Charities child abuse impediment programs and Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art. Over a years, a uncover has lifted $5 million for a two.

“We come from a city where we have so most munificent support,” Bartholomew says. “We wish people to know how beholden we are for that.”

WARREN, Mich., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Cindy Crawford knows what it takes to live good – scold diet, practice and sleep.  During a new revisit to Art Van Furniture to plead her renouned seat line, she detected Art Van PureSleep.  It was a compare done in heaven.

(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120214/DE52935 )

Citing scold rest as one of a vastly critical elements of her beauty regimen, Crawford, famous as one of a many pleasing women in a world, has been named a central orator for Art Van PureSleep.  She welcomes this event to inspire people to concentration some-more on a significance of good rest and scold sleep.

“Health and beauty go palm in palm with good rest,” says a lady whose career has spanned over dual decades with a devoted code representing beauty, fashion, aptness and home.  “There simply is no improved rest than what we get with PureSleep.”

Art Van PureSleep utilizes a state of a art mechanism evidence appurtenance that matches any chairman to a right mattress.  It is a 1-2-3 bedding complement that helps Art Van Furniture guest grasp a physic nap their bodies need.

“It’s been proven that scold physic nap helps urge a peculiarity of life,” says David Van Elslander, Vice President of Art Van PureSleep.  “That’s really important, and we are so vehement that we have Cindy Crawford to assistance us get this summary opposite to a guests.”

Art Van PureSleep experts also highlight a significance of selecting a right pillows for scold spinal alignment.  With that, Art Van Furniture will deliver a Cindy Crawford Good Night Pillow that will be sole exclusively during Art Van PureSleep stores.

The Art Van PureSleep promotion debate featuring supermodel Cindy Crawford will launch Feb 15, 2012.

About Art Van Furniture
Art Van Furniture is Michigan’s largest seat tradesman and America’s largest eccentric seat retailer. The association operates 34 stores in 33 communities via Michigan, a full use e-commerce website, and 5 freestanding Art Van PureSleep bedding stores in Canton, Troy, Rochester Hills, Brighton, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1959, a association is family-owned and headquartered in Warren, Mich. Check out artvan.com for some-more information.

WARREN, Mich., Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – In 1954, Audrey Hepburn supposed her Best Actress endowment wearing an memorable white floral Givenchy gown.  Elizabeth Taylor collected her statue for “Butterfield 8″ in 1961 in a gorgeous dark yellow tip over a white round robe skirt, cinched during a waist with a black satin cincture ornate with a red rose.  And no one will ever forget a ridiculous, though still widely discussed swan dress that thespian Bjork wore when she was nominated for Best Song in 2001.

Well, no outfits utterly so impracticable or outlandish are approaching during this gathering, though on Sunday, Feb 26, 2012, hundreds of ladies will have a eventuality to get all dolled adult for “Movie Awards Ladies Night Out during Art Van Furniture.”  Partnering with Fresh 100.3 and St. John Providence Health System, Michigan‘s largest seat tradesman is seeking guest to arrive during a flagship store in Warren during 6 p.m. to ready to travel a red runner for movie’s biggest night of kudos.

Teams of beauty experts will be on palm during a store to assistance partygoers with nominal hair styling, makeup and most more.  The creatively primped guest will afterwards travel a red runner and have photos taken in a specifically allocated print booth.  Renee Vitale from Fresh 100.3′s morning uncover will brush a assembly to find nominees for Best Dressed, Best Shoes, Best Makeup, Best Hair and Best Accessories.  Winners in any difficulty will accept a $50 present certificate from Lucido Fine Jewelry.

“This is only another eventuality that expresses a joining to fun, character and unpredictability during Art Van Furniture,” explains Diane Charles, a company’s Director of Communications.  “Our Ladies Night Out events are always a blast.”

What’s some-more is a dusk has a purpose.  St. John Providence Health System and Wigs 4 Kids are seeking guest to assistance children, who have mislaid their hair due to illness, feel glamorous by donating beauty equipment such as hair accessories, spike polish, dress valuables and makeup.

Movie Awards Ladies Night Out during Art Van is free.  Reservations can be done by going to artvan.com/events or by job 888.619.2199.  The Art Van Furniture flagship store is located during 6500 14 Mile Road in Warren.  Festivities start during 6 p.m. 

About Art Van Furniture
Art Van Furniture is Michigan’s largest seat tradesman and America’s largest eccentric seat retailer. The association operates 34 stores in 33 communities via Michigan, a full use e-commerce website, and 5 freestanding Art Van PureSleep bedding stores in Canton, Troy, Rochester Hills, Brighton, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1959, a association is family-owned and headquartered in Warren, Mich. Check out artvan.com for some-more information.

Art Van Furniture and Focus: HOPE will horde a special eventuality in Mar to respect a late Focus: HOPE co-founder Eleanor Josaitis.

People will come together during a Light for HOPE Eleanor M. Josaitis Tribute on Mar 10.  The eventuality will underline a launch of a Eleanor M. Josaitis Fund for Focus: HOPE.  It will take place during a Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center.

This comes alongside a $100,000 concession from Art Van to assistance account a classification that Josaitis helped to launch.  Focus: HOPE helps people by career training programs, food programs and most more.

All Art Van Furniture locations will also be participating in a concession drive.  The stores will be usurpation non-perishable foods, books, and new art reserve for families and students.  The expostulate will run by Feb 24.