By ADRIAN MADLENER
The leading New York fair brings together the perfect mix of antique, vintage and contemporary collectible design.
Perhaps the most elegant and prestigious of New York City’s myriad art and design fairs—especially as it holds court in the highly ornate, Gothic Revival Park Avenue Armory—TEFAF New York highlights a smart selection of rare finds in everything from silverware by Josef Hoffmann and Klimt drawings to Ancient Greek painted urns and experimental Pierre Paulin settees from the 1970s. There is, emphatically, something for every collector.
Though a smaller offshoot of the main Maastricht event held in March, this 90-exhibitor-strong offering packs its own punch. Programmed in the middle of a particularly exhaustive and ever-expanding May calendar in New York, TEFAF NY 2024—10 to 14 May—straddles Frieze Week and New York Design Week (NYCxDesign), held on either end of the month. As the increasingly outdated boundaries between ‘high’ fine art and so-called ‘low’ design and craft blur, so they do in this fair. Effect previews key highlights from this year’s exhibit, revealing its full breadth in terms of style, application and typology.
