The San Francisco Fall Show is the leading international art, antiques, and design fair on the West Coast. Founded in 1982, the Show features over 40 of the top dealers from around the world, offering for sale an extraordinary range of fine and decorative arts representing all styles and periods, including paintings, furniture, precious metals, ceramics, jewelry, rugs, photography, works on paper, books, ethnographic art, and objets d’art. This year, The San Francisco Fall Show celebrates "La Dolce Vita" – the quintessentially Italian approach to the “good life”.
DATES
Opening Night Gala on October 11, Show Dates October 12 – 15
SHOW HOURS
Thursday October 12 through Saturday October 14: 10:30am – 7:00pm
Sunday, October 15: 11:00am – 5:00pm
LOCATION
Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
2 Marina Blvd
San Francisco CA 94109
a pair of Maurizio Tempestini (Italian, 1908-1960) mid-century modern alabaster table lamps in a sculpted flame design of polished white alabaster with veins of black; raised on oval ebonized wooden bases; good vintage condition with minor chipping; professionally rewired and bases re-painted
each hand-blown white and clear glass cattail shade set into a brass back plate; no chips or cracks; some wear and patina to back plates; professionally rewired; priced individually $4,000 each
the 3-sided top above a paneled conforming body centering double-doors fitted with a solid brass latch; John Van Koert was a prominent New York designer who helped promote the fascination with Danish modern furnishings in the 1950's. In 1954, he was exhibition director of ''Design in Scandinavia,'' at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, introducing modern Scandinavian design to Americans. Mr. Van Koert's furniture designs for Drexel, were represented by prominent department stores such as Macy's and Bloomingdale's; good vintage condition with minor wear and patina; patina to brass
the long seat of slatted wood flanked by incurved arms with ball-form handholds; raised on a folding scissors double base; the term Savonarola derives from the chair on which the Savonarola used to sit in the convent of San Marco in Florence. The chair is named for the Italian Renaissance religious zealot Girolamo Savonarola; wear and patina to surface; movement to hinged frame; 2 ball-form handles replaced
each with round beveled central plate within a scalloped mirrored frame of reverse-etched panels; label to back 'Uttermost'; good vintage condition with no chips or cracks; light wear to frame
centering a convex mirror within a gilt metal frame consisting of radiating spokes of varying lengths; good vintage condition with overall even wear to gilding
the shaped lamp with slumped glass mirrored panels; the front panel with a Chinoiserie reverse-painted scene; all resting on a wooden base; good vintage condition with no chips or cracks; wear and patina to wooden surface; antiquing to silvering
the ovoid pot with short neck above a tapering body adorned with carved relief decoration depicting parrots; patina and fine craquelure to glazed surface; repaired chip to inside of lip
