Some of the Fingers members, from left to right: Alan Preston, Ruth Baird, Andrea Daly, Roy Mason. Damian Skinner: Next year Fingers will be celebrating 40 years, which possibly makes you the oldest gallery of contemporary jewelry in the world. What is the secret of such longevity? Alan Preston: I am not sure what the […]
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Eagle Associates, LLC 9309 Inglewood Court Potomac, MD 20854 Email: eaglel@leagleart.com Phone: 301-365-1510 (Office) 240-997-0023 (Cell) 301-365-6798 (Fax) Services offered to art owners include valuation to meet all requirements, planning and advisory services, and collection management. Valuation: • Pre-acquisition and pre-disposition valuations inform buyers of market levels for a specific piece by a particular artist
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350 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212 245 1136 Email: kmcarmel@aol.com Website: www.katecarmel.com Kate Carmel is a certified member of the Appraisers Association of America and is compliant with all USPAP requirements. When she was chief curator of the American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Arts and Design) in New York,
Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery 1420 5th Avenue, Suite 108 Seattle, WA 98101 Email: facereart@aol.com Phone: 206-624-6768 Website: www.facerejewelryart.com Karen Lorene, in retail for 40 years, is a member of the International Society of Appraisers and a Senior Member of the National Association of Jewelry Appraisers. For six years she appraised on Antiques Roadshow. She has
178 Hicks Street #3, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 646 318 1944 Email: e_essner@msn.com Elizabeth Essner is a certified member of the Appraisers Association of America. She is USPAP certified and can provide appraisals for insurance, estate tax and charitable donations. A specialist in twentieth century design for nearly a decade, Elizabeth Essner began evaluating modern decorative arts focusing
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Exterior Shot of Heidi Lowe Gallery Damian Skinner: How long have you been running a gallery? Heidi Lowe: It will be seven years on July 31, 2012. Your building looks kind of special. What is its history, and how did you come to occupy it? It’s a cute 500 square foot cottage from the 1940s. It
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Galleries exhibiting jewelry are an important part of our community and the people who run them have interesting backgrounds and stories to tell. In this interview Rosemarie Jaeger from Galerie Rosemarie Jaeger in Hochheim, Germany answered some questions posed by Damian Skinner. Galerie Rosemarie Jaeger Rosemarie Jaeger: The house and adjoining buildings date from 1742,
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Atinuj Atty Tantivit Damian Skinner: How long have you been running a gallery? Atty Tantivit: Just about a year. We opened our doors at the end of August 2010 but had an official opening on November 11, 2010. Where did your interest in contemporary jewelry come from? I have always loved wearing jewelry. Growing up
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Last October 2012, at the time of the opening of the Rita J and Stanley H Kaplan Family Foundation Gallery at the Boston MFA, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Yvonne Markowitz, the museum’s curator of jewelry. (You can read a review of the Kaplan gallery’s first exhibition, Jewels, Gems, and
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Helena Pahlman (left) with Silvia Walz (middle) and Ramon Puig Cuyas (right) from Spain. Photo: Lasse Pahlman Damian Skinner: These collectors are not in their thirties, they’re in their fifties and sixties. Is it a situation where, as people get older, they suddenly become contemporary jewelry collectors? Or are we are not capturing the interest
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Thursday March 15, 2012 Munich is known as die stadt der lebensfreude, the city filled with the joy of life – and with the bonus of welcome, sunny weather it was a pleasure to be in the Bavarian capital while Schmuck was on. Olga Zobel-Biró showing work by Lisa Walker Gallery Biró, our first stop,
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Organizers Astrid Berens and Maarten Bodt created SIERAAD Art Fair in the hopes of democratizing the sales process and increasing the popularity of jewelry. It began ten years ago on an indoor tennis court in Enschede, a city about two hours by train from Amsterdam. It has been housed by various locations over the years,
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