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After a year off because of the pandemic, Salon Art + Design is back at the Park Avenue Armory with a display of fine art and designer furniture shown in themed booths alongside splashy decorative arts and ancient sculpture.

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“Spin Love” — a clover-shaped crazy quilt elaborately inlaid on both sides and
bisected by a net of woven brass and copper — will be exhibited at Salon Art + Design in New York by Todd Merrill Studio.

In celebration of its 10-year anniversary, the fair is pulling out all stops, showcasing a highly curated, international assortment of modern and contemporary design, 20th century and contemporary art, and a sprinkling of fabulous jewelry.

Whereas certain blue-chip platforms purely focus on the new or the old, this now well-established event makes the critical link between the past and present, helping connoisseurs, collectors, and general design enthusiasts draw important parallels, especially when it comes to making shrewd decisions on what to acquire. 

Visiting a fair should unfold similar to turning the pages of a magazine, says Salon Art + Design executive director Jill Bokor. Coming from a nearly 25-year experience in publishing, Bokor pays attention to the instances of discovery across the fair booths, just like flipping through a glossy read. “Salon celebrates the continuum of design through centuries, so we create jumping points between objects from B.C. to the contemporary”

The design fair will likely see a more comfortable, contemporary style that reflects the amount of time buyers have been at home since the rise of Covid-19

An exclusive destination that suggests the exquisite refinement and elegance of a bygone New York welcomes the event on collectible design each year, now at its tenth anniversary. Fifty galleries from around the world become a fascinating premium “cabinet de curiosités” with rare artifacts, emerging talents, historic and iconic pieces.

“Each year we look for things that we haven’t had in the past,” says executive director Jill Bokor. This year, visitors can look forward to “a timeline of essentially the last 120 years with a nod to classical antiquities as well…you will see everything from furniture, ceramics, glass, lighting and fine art,” as well as some fresh ideas: important firsts that will set this edition apart.

Salon Art + Design returns to New York’s Park Avenue Armory for its decade anniversary, open to the public from November 11—15. The 10-year celebration will see an expansive selection of vintage, modern, and contemporary from around 50 international exhibitors, presented in carefully curated, immersive settings.

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“The market for design has been very strong during the pandemic,” says Jill Bokor, director of the Salon Art + Design fair. The reason, she believes, is that “people have had a lot of time to evaluate what works and doesn’t work about their homes.” But despite the collective embrace of online purchasing over the past year and a half, she adds, “people are feeling desperate for connection, for the chance to go out and see beautiful things.”

 Art & Object's editor-in-chief spoke to the fair's executive director, Jill Bokor, about the history of Salon Art + Design, the upcoming edition, and the future of art fairs in a post-pandemic world.

salon art + design returns to park avenue armory in new york city from november 11-15, 2021 in style and substance, as the global collectible fair celebrates its 10-year anniversary edition. it marks a high point of the city’s fall arts calendar, as live, in-person events restart, and creatives and collectors meet once more. 

The fair, which is produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates and runs from Nov. 11-15, features a range of material “from the beginning of the 20th century to yesterday,” says Jill Bokor, executive director. The goal of the fair’s exhibiting galleries is to create “immersive” booths that blend objects the dealers work with into inviting environments, rather than putting things on pedestals, she says. 

When Salon Art + Design returns for its 10th anniversary at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from Nov. 11-15, fine jewelry will, for the first time, have a major presence. The event is best known as a showcase for blue-chip 20th century art and the world’s best design — be it vintage, modern or contemporary.

Salon Art + Design, which returns to the Park Avenue Armory for its tenth anniversary, is an international fair that encourages its exhibiting galleries to present vintage, modern, and contemporary art and design in an immersive and inspiring setting—witty, sparkling, stylish.