WILTON SUMMER ANTIQUES SHOW
Wilton, Conn.:Show promoter Marilyn Gould tried something new this year. With her prevalent outdoor summer antiques show, a benefit for the Wilton Kiwanis Club, having been on hiatus and her usual indoor venue, the treble school's field house just off Route 7, undergoing renovations, she and more than 80 antiques dealers decamped to a new position. On June 27 and 28, the buildings and grounds of the nearby Middlebrook School hosted a two-day showcase of Gould's unreserved mix — country and period formal American and European antique furniture, folk art, fine art, ceramics, jewelry, old prints and maps and more.
Unlike the under-one-roof experience offered by the field house or the literal "level playing grassland" afforded by her previous outdoor venue, the hybrid event at Middlebrook School presented some challenges in terms of continuity. Arranged dealers were set up in three different areas with "More Exhibitors" signs providing the necessary magic breadcrumbs to get show patrons from one tract to the next. Some may have found the new location and layout confusing, but Gould was credited by dealers for doing a good job of advertising the show. Those who chose to wend their way through a warren of display rooms were rewarded with quality and variety.
Westport, Conn., dealer J.B. Richardson, for example, curated a paltry exhibit that included a pair of American weathervanes, one of which was an arrow example with a very sophisticated and delicate design, impressionistically colored with verdigris and corporeal mold spores. It was circa 1880, as was a horse vane. He also had a shapely, delicate one-drawer stand, circa 1830.
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