Exhibitor Biographies

Carlton Hobbs
Carlton Hobbs and his longtime partner Stefanie Rinza love to talk antiques, but if you really want to get to their hearts, bring up dogs. Rinza’s habit of finding homes for stray cats and dogs is well known, and has earned her coverage in The New York Times. (Update: the feral chow she re..    Read More > 

Clinton Howell
Clinton Howell grew up in Fairfield County, Connecticut, one of the richest suburban realms in the country. But after graduating from college, he decided he wanted to work with his hands. In 1971 he moved to England and enrolled in the London College of Furniture. "I was not a great cabinetmaker..    Read More > 

Galerie Rienzo
Galerie Rienzo is an important member of the New York's art gallery community for over 25 years, this select salon offers an atmosphere of understated elegance and personal attention, specializing in Impressionist and Modern French Masters. They are the New York Expert for the internationally re..    Read More > 

Hill-Stone
On paper, so to speak, Alan Stone and Lesley Hill might not seem a perfect match: he likes to surf, while Lesley prefers to spend her spare time researching her ancestors. She was in her last year at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. when they met, at a lecture at Smith on the 18th century Ita..    Read More > 

Hyde Park Antiques, Ltd
Rachel Karr If Bernard Karr had stuck with baseball cards in tidy shoeboxes, his passion for collecting may never have become his profession. But Bernie went on to beer steins, rugs, rare books and Tiffany glass—by the time he met his wife,..    Read More > 

Jayne Thompson Antiques
Growing up as the daughter of an antiques dealer, Lori Thompson Finke remembers sitting in antique shops, traveling around on deliveries, and furniture constantly rotating in and out the house. She never dreamed she’d be a dealer herself. But after college, Lori spent a few months at JTA b..    Read More > 

Jon Eric Riis
It’s not uncommon for antiques dealers to list the pieces they’ve placed in prestigious museums. Jon Eric Riis, a prominent dealer in antique Asian textiles and one of the country’s leading textile artists, can list the museums—the Metropolitan in New York, Atlanta’..    Read More > 

L'Antiquaire and the Connoisseur
Helen Fioratti’s mother began collecting at the age of twelve, using money her uncle gave her for going to bed on time. She opened her own antiques shop over the objections of her father, who considered trade “unladylike,” and became, according to The New York Times, the first ..    Read More > 

Linda Bernell
My uncle, Max Bodner, was a prominent collector of Impressionist art. It has been over twenty-five years since he passed away, and I continue to admire his incredible talents and in his time, great works were truly appreciated for their essence and for their magnificence. There was a p..    Read More > 

Marco Bertoli
Marco Bertoli, with thirty years of expertise in the art field, is considered one of the worldwide best expert and dealer of Italian painting and sculpture of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Bertoli proudly consults for Christie's in New York and London, works closely with major nati..    Read More > 

Marion Harris
Enchanted by the beauty of natural history and the hidden narrative of objects, Marion Harris has always been drawn to the odd and unusual. Originally from Scotland, a good place to find such things, she is driven by a passion for collecting. A permanent move to America in the 1980s led to est..    Read More > 

Pat Saling
Pat Saling deals in fine antique and estate jewelry. Her inventory consists of exquisite 19th Century jewels through Fine French jewelry of the 1950's. Pat specializes in jewelers known for their unique designs such as Suzanne Belperron and Rene Boivin along with other great houses of Cartier, V..    Read More > 

Patrick Bavasi
Thankfully, what goes around comes around–and goes around again. It is this philosophical constant that has kept me inspired over my career as an antiques dealer. I believe I never truly own a beautiful object; I am only briefly its curator. So it is with great care that I pass along to ..    Read More > 

Phoenix Ancient Art
Phoenix Ancient Art is considered by many specialists in the field to be the world's leading dealer in rare and exquisite antiquities. Founded in the mid-1960s by the late S. Aboutaam, Phoenix Ancient Art is now managed by his sons, Ali and Hicham. Growing up with their father's business, these ..    Read More > 

Piacenti Art Gallery
Born from a passion for Old Master paintings and works of art, the Piacenti Art Gallery has its roots in the art world in 1875. Four generations later, and following the focus of their father Stefano, Emanuele and Leonardo Piacenti specialize in European paintings and sculpture from the four..    Read More > 

Queen Fine Arts
QUEEN FINEARTS has been on the international art scene for more than eighty years. As a family owned gallery, we have done business in Latin America, Europe and now we enjoy our new location in South Florida continuing to offer high quality artworks to our valued clients. Our collection offers e..    Read More > 

Robert Simon Fine Art
Robert Simon Robert Simon deals in Old Master paintings—which is to say that he is an expert in the various aspects of the culture that produced them in Renaissance and Baroque Europe: literature and mythology, religion, natural and political history and, o..    Read More > 

YVEL
Founded in 1986 by Orna and Isaac Levy, YVEL (a mirror image of the Levy name) is an international luxury jewelry brand whose award-winning pearl and precious gemstone collections are sold across five continents in more than 650 exclusive retail stores worldwide. Every piece of YVEL jewelry is hand..    Read More >