The Palm Beach Show’s Designer Showcase Celebrates Fine Art and Modern Design
- Campion Platt in his vignette at the 2015 Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show's Designer Showcase.
For the second year in a row, the New York-based interior designer Campion Platt will curate the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show’s Designer Showcase. Using fine art, furniture, and decorative accessories from the fair’s 160-plus international exhibitors, five of the country’s top tastemakers, including Platt, will create vignettes that demonstrate how to bring the past seamlessly into the 21st century, while championing the merits of fine art and modern design in contemporary interiors.
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Platt, who gave last year’s designers free reign over their spaces, has a more finely tuned approach for his booth in the 2016 Showcase. He says, “One of my goals this year is to promote modern design. The Palm Beach Show is very eclectic and it’s a great place to shop for classic and modern paintings, jewelry, and traditional furniture, but there are a lot of collectors looking for transitional and contemporary furniture as well. I’m trying to change the nuance of what people come to the show to shop for so I’ve decided to anchor my space with a selection of modern works. There are 70,000 high-network people coming to the event and I’d like to show that it’s really a great market for modern dealers as well as more traditional exhibitors.”
The Showcase’s interior designer roster reflects Platt’s vision to ramp up the show’s modern edge. Christopher Coleman, who operates an interior design firm in Brooklyn as well as a home furnishings and accessories boutique in Hudson, New York, will make his Palm Beach Show debut. Known for his magnificently exuberant and decidedly modern designs, Coleman is a favorite among the South Florida set thanks to his colorful and bold style.
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Joseph Pubillones, an award-winning, Palm Beach-based designer will also participate in the Showcase for the first time. Pubillones, who studied architecture in Europe and the US, creates interiors that are elegant and well-structured, moving freely between styles based on his clients’ predilections. From classically refined residences to bold tropical interiors, Pubillones brings a distinctly cosmopolitan flair to every project.
Jennifer Garrigues and Lars Bolander, both of whom have locations in Palm Beach and New York, will return to the Palm Beach Show after participating in last year’s Designer Showcase. Garrigues, who draws inspiration from her time as a high fashion model, creates sophisticated yet approachable interiors using sumptuous materials and graceful shapes, while Bolander, who was born in Sweden, creates daring designs rooted in his Scandinavian heritage. Clean and functional, Bolander’s spaces stand out thanks to his unique touches inspired by his diverse background and extensive travels. “Lars and Jennifer have complementary, but different styles,” says Platt. “This year’s designer selection was driven primarily by a desire to have a good mix of classic, transitional, contemporary and modern styles and design.”
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The five participating designers will have from Sunday, February 7, until Wednesday, February 10, when the Palm Beach Show’s VIP Opening Night Preview Party will take place, to install their spaces. Platt, who will create a double-sized vignette (thanks to a designer who dropped out at the last minute), has his space “fully cooked --- 100% done, selected and organized.” Centered around a Winter Wonderland theme, the space will feature artworks from exhibitors Cavalier Galleries and McLoughlin Gallery as well as crisp yet comfortable furnishings from Biasi Catani of Brazil. Coleman also has his vignette well under way, opting for a grey, yellow, blue and black color scheme punctuated by bold, modern patterns. Sophisticated grey walls will be complemented by a geometric rug, a number of artworks, including a massive six-by-three-foot canvas, a sofa, two slipper chairs, a yellow urn, a faux marble pedestal, end tables, a striped highback chair and a palm tree plant, adding a dose of the natural world to the stylish space. Meanwhile, Garrigues sought inspiration for her vignette from a recent trip abroad. She says, “I have just been in Africa for two weeks and came back with such a sense of what Kenya and Tanzania are all about, especially the big cats. They are such magnificent animals, beautiful and proud. I called my friend and artist Helmut Koller to see if he had any one of his fabulous paintings. Yes, he had a large canvas of a dark purple leopard! My favorite animal and favorite color. [The booth] is not formal but interesting. The color of the wallpaper is light cream with silver running throughout...The furniture is covered in textured fabrics which are a suggestion of the country's vast landscape of brush and silky grasses.” Festive yet incredibly refined, Pubillones' booth will focus on “The Art of Celebration.” Inspired by the architecture and interiors of the Art Deco and Art Moderne periods as seen through a contemporary lens, Pubillones will employ bold geometries and exotic finishes to express a sense of luxury. Silks, lacquered woods, silver and glass shimmer to underline the sparkle of a celebration. The booth’s color palette of grey, black and white with a punch of saffron will be complemented by bold works by Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselmann. Bolander will adorn his mustard-colored booth with Italian theatre chairs from the 1930s upholstered in snakeskin, a sofa, chairs, occasional tables, and a full-size metal fig tree.
- A sketch of Campion Platt's 2016 Designer Showcase vignette.
The design team will participate in a must-see panel discussion titled The Art of Decoration on Saturday, February 13. Platt says, “I’m asking the designers to be very considerate of the art they’re placing on the walls in their spaces. We’ll be photographing the rooms and talking about them on Saturday. As a designer, I’ve found that many clients have budgets for their house, the interiors, but that drops off when it comes to budgeting for art --- they figure they’ll fill the walls later. But a really spectacular project considers art from the beginning. We’re trying to promote that idea with the vignettes and the panel.” The designers will also discuss ways of incorporating art into interiors and offer insider tips on how to maximize effect with various types of art.
Held at the Palm Beach Convention Center, the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show will be open to the public from Thursday, February 11, through Tuesday, February 16, marking the show’s departure from a five-day schedule to a seven-day run. Stay tuned to InCollect.com for more information about the 2016 Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show.
