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Lectures, Book Signings And Many Special Events Enhance The London International Fine Art Fair At Olympia
The London International Fine Art Fair (LIFAF) at Olympia will take place 4 -13 June 2010. The event will feature an insightful lecture series, book signings and myriad special events.
FORT MYERS, FL, May 15, 2010 /Museums PR News/ -- An insightful lecture series, book signings and myriad special events highlight the London International Fine Art Fair (LIFAF) at Olympia this June. This dynamic program along with the largest summer slate of prestigious British and international dealers in London make LIFAF the most broad-ranging fine art and antiques event in the city. The fair is open to the public 4 -13 June 2010.
The LIFAF lecture series - unique to Olympia this June - brings together renowned experts on a variety of stimulating subjects. Featured talks include: Antiques and the Contemporary World, a discussion by Eliska Sapera, exhibition director of the British Institute of Interior Design (4 June, 2:30 p.m.); Stowe House: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of an Architectural Masterpiece, delivered by Dr. Jonathan Foyle, Chief Executive of the World Monuments Fund Britain (7 June, 2:30 pm); and Sir Timothy Clifford's lecture titled Forty Years of Rape and Pillage: Buying Art for the Nation (9 June, 2:30 p.m.). Sir Timothy is the chairman of the fair and the former director of the National Galleries of Scotland. Each lecture is included with admission to LIFAF.
Special ticketed events further enhance the fair. A lecture over lunch is delivered by the distinguished history writer Lord John Julius Norwich (8 June, 1 p.m.). Lord Norwich will discuss his latest publication, The Great Cities in History, and his favourite city, Venice. Tickets are available at www.lifaf.com or by calling +44 (0) 871 230 5592. An evening debate presented by Sotheby's Institute of Art examines The State of the Art Market: A Return to Quality and Value (8 June, 5:30 p.m.). Among the speakers is Sotheby's own Dr. Iain Robertson, head of art business studies. This event will be ticketed at GBP15. Those wishing to book a place should contact Gillian McIlwaine directly at g.mcilwaine@sothebysinstitute.com or +44 (0) 207 462 2490.
Book Signings at Potterton Books will give visitors opportunities to meet expert authors, purchase specialist publications and add specially signed copies to their personal libraries. Signings include Judith Miller with Millers Antiques Handbook and Price Guide 2010 (5 June, 1 p.m.); John Minshaw with John Minshaw Designs (7 June, 1 p.m.); Mary Miers with The English Country House (8 June, 1 p.m.); Henrietta Spencer Churchill with Classic English Interiors (8 June, 3 p.m.); Adam Bowett with Early Georgian Furniture & English Furniture 1660-1714 (9 June, 1 p.m.); Selina Baring MacLennan with Gaston la Touche (10 June, 1 p.m.); and Charles Hajdamach with 20th Century British Glass & British Glass 1800-1914 (11 June, 1 p.m.). View the full event programme.
LIFAF exhibitors are adding their own unique programming to the fair. Bennett Fine Art hosts the Luna Poetry Competition, in conjunction with its exhibit Luna by Ann Lea Merritt. The painting was inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's noted poem, The Moon. Awards will be given at LIFAF for youth and adult winners who've submitted the best original poetry relating to the Moon.
LIFAF welcomes a rarely seen special exhibition in 2010, "Modern British Masters: Pictures from the Bryan Ferry Collection," an exceptional group of fifteen rarely seen works is representative of musician Bryan Ferry's passion for early twentieth-century British paintings which he has collected over thirty years. Returning to LIFAF Olympia after its successful debut last year is the Country Life - LAPADA Object of the Year competition, which brings together about 20 top objects for display and sale at the fair, with awards for the top three such objects given out during LIFAF.
This prestigious fair brings a large array of quality, expertise and accessibility and offers cultural entertainment as well as opportunities for acquisition. This year LIFAF will support Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres. Landscape architect Dr. Christine Facer will transform the newly designed fair space with the collectors' crescent, enlarged and airy dining and entertaining spaces with a unique Maggie's Tree of Hope: "A specimen flowering tree spreads its canopy like a metaphorical umbrella that is a Maggie's Centre," said Facer.
The calendar is packed with complementary events throughout London during LIFAF, including the nearby Victoria and Albert Museum's planned opening of phase two of its beautifully revitalized Ceramics Galleries (phase one opened last autumn). The renovation work on the noted galleries - originally opened in 1909 - began in 2005. Fair partner Bond Street holds its Culture & Heritage Week from 7-13 June, with special courtesy cars offered to shuttle fairgoers between the luxury shopping destination and Olympia.
With a 37 year history, LIFAF is London's largest and most established fair of its kind. Bringing together more than 150 prestigious British and international dealers with more than 30,000 private buyers, curators, interior designers and devotees from around the world, the grand, historic venue of Olympia will be transformed into an arena for commerce for dealers, collectors and lovers of antiques, paintings of all periods, sculpture, furniture, modern design, jewellery, silver, textiles, books and objects d'art.
A 200 page full colour LIFAF catalogue priced GBP25 will be available for purchase through www.lifaf.com
Press Contacts: Aanal Chandaria / Damian Chandler At Brunswick Arts:
+ 44 (0) 20 7936 1271 / 1273
Email: Lifaf@Brunswickgroup.com
International Press:
Kevin Baxter at International Fine Art Expositions:
+ 1 239 949 5411 Ext. 110
Email: Kbaxter@Ifae.com
Images Are Available Through The Press Link And Login At: WWW.LIFAF.COM
Location
Olympia Exhibition Centre
Olympia Way
London W14 8UX
Fair information phone line + 44 (0) 207 370 8186
Fair Hours
Thursday 3 June - Preview Day 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Friday 4 - Monday 7 June 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. daily
Tuesday 8 June 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Wednesday 9 June - Saturday 12 June 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. daily
Sunday 13 June 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Admission Prices / Tickets
Preview Day GBP80
Advance (single) GBP10
Advance (joint) GBP18
On the door (single) GBP14
On the door (joint) GBP22
Concessions GBP8
Under 14 free of charge
Fair ticket line + 44 (0) 871 230 5592
Fair tickets may be purchased on our web site www.lifaf.com
For travel and hotel information please visit www.lifaf.com/travel_accommodation.html
Grosvenor House Hotel is the Official hotel for LIFAF
www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/travel/longh-grosvenor-house-a-jw-marriott-hotel/
PARTNERS:
London International Fine Art Fair acknowledges the support of:
Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres
Founded in 1996 Maggie's has been pioneering a new concept of cancer support in the UK providing help, information and guidance to all people personally affected by cancer, as well as friends and family, all free of charge. To date five Centres have been designed by Richard Murphy, Page and Park, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and most recently Richard Rogers, who's London Centre received the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2009. Since the opening of the first building, Maggie's has embarked on an ambitious programme and will announce a further seven centres which will extend access to the Maggie's support network into England and Wales as well as broadening facilities in Scotland.
The Architecture of Hope: A history of Maggie's Centres by Charles Jencks and Edwin Heathcote, published by Frances Lincoln, will be available for sale at Potterton Books, the fair bookshop. For more information, visit www.maggiescentres.org
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