New York’s popular Asian antique art and design showroom Sinotique rounded off a spectacularly successful summer season this year with a stunning display at Dallas Boesendahl’s Hamptons exhibition; the bustling “Bridgehampton Antiques and Design Fair."
In its sixteenth appearance at this prestigious event - which attracts designers and buyers from all over the city and beyond - Sinotique continued to impress collectors and browsers with its latest offering of Asian classic and modern designs, set off to beautiful effect in the town’s historic Community House.
Owner Jan Lee managed to induce the usual feelings of envy and admiration with his merging of antique discoveries and objects from his own beautifully hand-sculpted designs (all of which are derived from antique bamboo and hardwood from sustainable resources). The phrase sophisticated rustic is regularly applied to the collection of furniture and art he exhibits to great effect in his Brooklyn showroom.
Jan’s latest exhibit effortlessly managed to infuse traditional and modern elements to create an updated space which allowed East Hampton artist Audrey Lee’s stunning Blue Orb painting to share viewing with a similarly curved and beautifully textured ammonite fossil from the Jurassic period.
Lee’s work was inspired by the ancient Chinese circular symbol Bi (pronounced bee) which symbolises the heavens and therefore made an appropriate backdrop for an intricate handmade Chinese wire lantern and a pair of erect early 20th century worn Elmwood Chinese spindle back chairs.
The chairs balanced the presence of a majestic console table in rich antique bamboo veneer, designed by Jan himself and taking into account modern influences.
The relevance to the present – in the form of that week’s Bridgehampton Classic Horse Show - was emphasized with the appearance of the beautifully smooth cast aluminium horse saddle brackets adorning one upper wall of the exhibit.
Jan’s design credentials are fantastic, a fact exemplified when one of the first artifacts to be sold at the Hampton’s exhibit was his decorative and highly textured gold wall panels. Everyone who visited agreed these were beautifully magnified, and to great effect in Brooklyn artist Kanik Chung’s eye-catching mirrored disc wall sculptures.
Sinotique’s display at the Bridgehampton Antiques & Design Fair was only one of 25 impressive exhibits representing various areas of the globe with their respective design styles and in selected mediums from ceramics to silver and fabric to oil paint.
It’s an exhibition which grows with each passing year and one in which Sinotique will always play a part. Meanwhile, Jan continues his labor of love in his New York showroom, where he is happy to offer a free consultation and design on selected commissions – whether residential or commercial. All showroom visits are by appointment and can be made by contacting Jan via email (jan@sinotique.com) or by calling him directly on (917)-710-7503.
To chat with Jan on a more informal basis, look out for further exhibits Sinotique will be involved in within the New York area and beyond in the very near future.
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