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TEFAF Stories offers unique perspectives into the world of fine art, antiques, and design.

Meet the Experts

July 22, 2021

Designer Licheng Ling Looks Back at Her First Time Visiting TEFAF

How a visit to the fair filled the Homeism founder with creative inspiration

Meet the Experts

Step Into the Eclectic Home of Antique Dealers Ollivier and Gladys Chenel

As a family with deep roots in the art world, the Chenels share how they now live with art, antiques, and design in their Paris home

July 6, 2021

Meet the Experts

TAFETA Founder Ayo Adeyinka on Bringing Modern African Art to the Market

Adeyinka shares the story behind his gallery and contemporary artists to know

July 2, 2021

Meet the Experts

Inside the Parisian Home of Art Dealer Xavier Eeckhout

How the animal sculpture specialist and his family live with an eclectic collection of art

May 26, 2021

Museum Stories

A Visionary Commode by Italian Cabinetmaker Piffetti Joins the Collection of the Met

Acquired by a collector from antiques dealer BURZIO. at TEFAF, the commode by Pietro Piffetti is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

June 25, 2021

Meet the Experts

Inside Art Dealer Niels de Boer’s 17th-Century House on Amsterdam’s Historic Canal

Step into the Old Master dealer’s art-filled gallery, foundation, and private family home

June 17, 2021

Meet the Experts

Asian Antiques Dealer Runjeet Singh on His First Time Exhibiting at TEFAF

Singh shares the experience of his first fair and explores his fascination with antique arms and armor

June 14, 2021

Museum Stories

April 7, 2021

Rare Diamond Ring Acquired at TEFAF

DIVA Museum Adds a Mysterious 17th Century Ring to Its Collection

Meet the Experts

Meticulous Vetting Sets TEFAF Apart

The vetting process is one of the main pillars of TEFAF’s success for buyers to acquire art with confidence.

September 24, 2020

Meet the Experts

Mentink & Roest

Menno Hoencamp from Mentink & Roest shares a closer look inside this very rare clock by George Prior.

September 30, 2020

Collector Interviews

Collector Interview

Interview with Gary and Anita Klesch

“The number one rule is you have to fall in love with a painting.”

October 30, 2020

Collector Interview

Interview with Patricia Cisneros

“I would encourage people to look deep into their souls” : Collector, Patricia Cisneros on responsibility to cultural history.

September 20, 2020

Collector Interview

Interview with Carrie Rebora Barratt

An offer so tantalizing she couldn’t refuse.

September 1, 2020

Museum Restoration Fund

Rembrandt’s Brushstrokes Are Revealed after Restoration of This Portrait from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The quality and beauty of this unknown woman are uncovered after restoration supported by the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund

July 15, 2021

Museum Restoration Fund

Victoria & Albert Museum: The Restoration Of The Kaufmann Office By Frank Lloyd Wright

Through the restoration process, the V&A will gain insight into how the office was constructed and this information will be of interest to expert conservators around the world.

January 24, 2020

Museum Restoration Fund

Volkenkunde Museum: Restoring The Kawahara Keiga Screen

Restorient invites you inside their studio to give you an exclusive view of the Kawahara Keiga screen during its restoration.

January 13, 2019

Museum Restoration Fund

National Gallery London: The Restoration of Van Dyck’s Equestrian Portrait of Charles I

Learn how it took a small army of people to clean, repair and restore one of the National Gallery’s largest paintings:

January 15, 2019

Cultural Programming

Civic Pride: The City as Collector

This discussion will explore what it means for a city to collect, or for a museum to collect objects relating to the history and artistic production of cities.

November 25, 2020

Cultural Programming

Old Masters, New Spaces: Historical Art in Modernist Buildings

This discussion will place the Frick’s venture in the context of other modernist spaces in which historical collections have been displayed.

November 20, 2020

Cultural Programming

Retrieving Lost Identities: The Black Figure in Art, Past and Present

One of the most urgent and compelling topics shaping the art world today is the pictorial representation of the black figure— a complex and highly charged subject whose dynamics extend far beyond the studio, gallery, and classroom.

September 8, 2020

Cultural Programming

Stone and Faith: Rebuilding Notre Dame

Notre Dame’s reconstruction whether viewed through a spiritual, aesthetic, or historic lens, will continue to fascinate and frustrate us. It will also yield practical lessons about a host of preservation, heritage, and its institutional role in the city itself.

September 1, 2020

On Sundays, we revisit past TEFAF fairs by resharing photos from our community.

Detail of Laccato Bowl for Venini by Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) circa 1947 Glass 7 x 23 cm (2.8 x 9 in.) Presented by @marcheiremans during #TEFAFNY Spring 2019

This Laccato bowl by the Italian modernist designer and architect Carlo Scarpa was designed in 1940. Using a simple “ad incalmo” technique, the two separately blown forms, one red, the other black, are united at their rim which has the same circumference. The red part is made of crushed pearls mixed with slices of a solid murrine cane. The resulting slab has a slightly rough surface and was—consisting basically of tiny chips—unsuitable to be blown. Once both parts were united, the whole was covered with colourless glass. This stabilized the material after which the vessel could be shaped. Due to the complex execution process, only very few of these objects were ever produced.

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