LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 10th Annual Los Angeles Antiques Show opens Friday, April 29th, at Barker Hangar on the Santa Monica Airport, spotlighting the eleven exhibitors who have participated in the Show since its premier presentation in 1995. While few of the 66 exhibiting galleries are “first time” participants and most are veterans of five or more years, the eleven galleries with the show since its inception characterize the excellence for which the show has become known and the diversity of material which makes the Los Angeles Antiques Show a major force in the world of antiques, decor and fine art.

Opportunities to name-drop, prerequisite to any Los Angeles event, are plentiful. Last year’s celebs included Michael Richards (Kramer on Seinfeld), Mr. Blackwell (fashion Maven, best/worst dressed lists). Beau Bridges, Michael York, David Hyde Pierce, Steve Bochco, Marg Helgenberger, Cindy Crawford, Veronica Hamel, Dean Koontz, Rita Wilson and Steven Spielberg. The name-dropping opportunities provided by the antiques themselves are as juicy as the guest list. Treasures carried out of the Los Angeles Antiques Show in recent years include major oil paintings by Sargent, Picasso and Hassam; jewelry by Tiffany, Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpel; furniture by Chippendale, Stickley and Wright; silver by Jensen, Knox and Revere...the list goes on and on.

The eleven founding exhibitors are: W. Graham Arader, III, a specialist in rare maps, books and Audubon and other prints, with galleries in San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York City, Houston, and King of Prussia, PA; Argentum-The Leopard’s Head, featuring fine antique silver, San Francisco, CA; Charles Jay Conover, Los Gatos, CA, with 18th and 19th Century English furnishings; Richard Gould Antiques Ltd., Los Angeles CA, offering 18th and 19th Century English and American Furniture and porcelain; the show’s original Asian gallery, dealers in Japanese furniture and screens, Imari Gallery, Sausalito, CA; The Lotus Collection, San Francisco, CA dealer in antique tapestries, textiles and pillows; Lyons Ltd. Antique Prints, Palo Alto, CA, with etchings, engravings and lithographs; Daniel Stein Antiques, Inc., San Francisco, CA, with traditional English and American Furniture; Sarah Stocking Fine Vintage Posters, San Francisco, CA, America’s leading specialist in European Art Posters; Eve Stone Antiques, Ltd., Woodbridge, Connecticut, featuring brass and copper from as early as the 16th Century; and jeweler Edith Weber & Associates, New York City.

The Antiques Dealers Association of California (ADAC) created and organizes the show and works sold on the show’s floor range from a few hundred to a few million dollars.

The Los Angeles Antiques Show, produced by Caskey-Lees, producers of major antiques shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York City, is vetted by experts so that show customers can purchase with confidence.