Kultura PR
Public Relations
13603 Marina Pointe Drive, #A315
Marina del Rey, California, 90292 USA
Nicole Goesseringer Muj is the founder of KULTURA PR (kulturapr.com), a boutique public relations agency that specializes in international entertainment and cultural clients, including Comcast International Media Group (E! Entertainment, The Style Network, G4, Versus), Metan Development Group, Eurocinema On Demand, Seductively French, RockTheWeb!, Berlin Tourism Marketing, The Stas Namin Centre/Russian Nights Festival, Maverick Entertainment Group, Romance in A Can Film Festival, films “Love Hunter,” “No Bad Days,” and “The Red Robin,” The Los Angeles St. Petersburg Sister City Committee, Face Forward, author Janine Shepherd, DABCO LLC, Lera de Marina Fine Jewelry, Le Savonnier Marseillais, Steve Barakatt, Assia Ahhatt and Vincent Pastore (“Sopranos”).
Previously, Nicole served as Associate Director, Worldwide Publicity, E! Networks for over four years, where she oversaw media relations for E!'s rapidly expanding international division, including the E! International Network and E!'s program sales division. She also was responsible for domestic trade and consumer publicity for E!, The Style Network and E! Online.
Additionally, she worked in new media/entertainment convergence public relations at mPRm Public Relations and was responsible for several high profile accounts, including Sony Pictures. Nicole also worked at Steeplechase Media/Comspan Communications as Director of Marketing where she oversaw marketing communications for Comspan Communications, Steeplechase Media, and Comspan Russia, the first company to bring Western entertainment and sporting acts to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Today, as head of KPR International, she continues to book top music acts in Russia/CIS, Europe, Middle East and Latin America, including Lady Gaga, Enrique Iglesias, Anastacia, Chris Botti, Mario Frangoulis, Emma Shapplin, and many others.
She holds a Master of Arts in Communications from California State University, Fullerton, and a Bachelor of Arts in Slavic Studies from the University of Ottawa in Canada. She also is a published journalist and frequent contributor to Informer Media, Jetset Magazine and Quoi de Neuf?
Contact: Nicole Goesseringer Muj
Phone: 310 804 0964
Email: nicolekultura@gmail.com
L. George Walker Personal Property Appraisers
Appraisers
202 Arnie's Loop, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310
Contact: Jane Edwards
Phone: 757 607 6668
Mobile 203 510 4469
LBR Home
Interior Design
Born and raised in Westport, CT, Laurie Blumenfeld-Russo was inspired to pursue a life in design after celebrating her 13th birthday on a family trip to India. This early experience ignited a life-long passion for travel, design and collecting and eventually broadened her horizons to Asia, South America, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and beyond.
Laurie spent the first part of her career in a creative, brand marketing role, where she led the special events department for Nickelodeon. With a strong desire to follow her passion for design, Laurie left the comfort of the corporate world and enrolled in Parsons’ highly coveted design program, where she obtained a degree in Interior Design. Laurie was immediately sought after for her global style and unique eye, and launched her eponymous firm LBR | HOME in 2014, which is now known as Laurie Blumenfeld Design to encompass the firm’s expansion into commercial and hospitality spaces, as well as product design.
Laurie Blumenfeld Design’s projects range from New York City apartments to complete renovations throughout New England and Washington DC and have been published in House Beautiful, Domino, Martha Stewart Living, Aspire Design and Home, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Laurie lives in Brooklyn Heights with her husband Bob and their Australian shepherd Ava with a completely renovated rooftop oasis, which functions as their “at-home” vacation home for these travel lovers.
Phone: 917 757 5464
Contact: Laurie Blumenfeld Russo
Lee Calicchio LTD.
Antiques
550 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065
Exhibition Booths on 10th floor of the New York Design Center at 200 Lex.
Exemplary French, English, Italian, Continental, Baltic pieces and objets d'art compliment a disciplined simplicity and a classical sensitivity. Lee Calicchio presents a distinctive and timeless antiques gallery.
Phone: 646.335.2057
Contact: Lee Calicchio
Email: leecalltd@gmail.com
Monday – Friday: 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Lera Lasater Lee, Briggs Freeman
Jewelry Creator / Real Estate
Global real estate expert Lera Lasater Lee joined Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty (briggsfreeman.com) in early 2014. After over 20 years living in New York, London, Florence, Italy and Miami, Lera brings a world of knowledge and expertise to her discerning clientele. As a sixth-generation Texan, she quickly became one of the Briggs Freeman’s top producing agents and a key member of Claire Dewar’s team. Lera is now part of Faisal Halum’s team, playing an integral role in the luxury home sales division of the company.
Before joining Briggs Freeman, Lera worked in new home sales for the nationally recognized K. Hovnanian Homes, and in the 1990s was with Sotheby’s Auction House in New York.
Lera’s success can be attributed to her keen understanding of the luxury property business and attention to detail, skills that continue to serve her well in marketing real estate. Proficient in several languages and an insatiable traveler, she immediately puts her international and out-of-town clients at ease with her personal warmth, cultural sensitivity and professional demeanor.
Lera has lived and traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America. A wife and mother of three, one of her greatest assets is her unique vision and ability to think creatively to meet the challenge of finding her buyers the perfect home.
Lera is also the founder/CEO of globally renowned fine jewelry company Lera Lee Fine Jewelry (leraleejewelry.com), which under her vision and artistic direction has created custom pieces for an international client base for over 15 years. Her pieces have been carried at Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Fred Segal of Santa Monica while also being featured in top fashion and style publications and on network television shows, including Dancing with the Stars and E! News.
Living in the world’s key design centers in distinctively characteristic homes and attending jewelry and gem shows across Europe have shaped Lera’s artistic and business philosophy, successfully designing and creating jewelry for the today’s active and fashionable woman. She utilizes and applies this experience in her real estate work.
She received a Bachelor’s of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to college, she attended the Kincaid School in Houston.
Phone: 786 303 6022
Contact: Lera Lasater Lee
Lera Lee Jewelry
Jewelry
Lera Lasater Lee has been creating jewelry for women to wear everyday for over 15 years. The collection represents a balance between sophisticated creativity and the best of Italian creation. Each piece of jewelry is produced using only 18 carat yellow, rose, or white gold. All of our jewelry is hand made by craftsmen in Florence, Italy. Our pieces are made for everyday wear over lifetimes and generations.
Phone: 855 537 2533
Contact: Lera Lee
Email: help@lerallee.com
Magnusson Estate Services
Appraiser
920 Mt. Kemble Ave., Morristown, New Jersey 07960
Personal Property Consultants, Inc. is a family-owned business established in 1994 as an Estate Specialty Firm.
Lynn Magnusson, President, is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) of the American Society of Appraisers with a specialty designation in Antiques and Decorative Arts. Ms. Magnusson received her Certified Appraiser designation in Personal Property from the Appraisers Association of America.
She has a BS in Business Administration from Montclair State University, has completed the NYU Certificate Program in Appraisal Studies, and has taken and passed all the valuation, research, analysis, report writing and legal practice courses of the American Society of Appraisers at George Washington University. She maintains her accreditations by completing at least 100 educational hours every 5 years.
Phone: 973 425 1550
Mobile 862 881 2138
Contact: Lynn Magnusson
Mark Murray Fine Paintings
Fine Paintings
159 E 63rd St, New York, New York 10065
Established in 1992, Mark Murray Fine Paintings specializes in European and American paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Formerly at 39 East 72nd Street off Madison Avenue, we are pleased to announce we recently moved to a new ground floor location on a historic block between Lexington and Third Avenues. Located at 159 East 63rd Street, the gallery's sculpture garden backs on to the new home of the Dahesh Museum of Art, and adjoins the historic Barbara Rutherford Hatch House, subsequently the residence of Wright Brothers collaborator Charles Lawrance, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Jasper Johns. Across the street is the renowned Barbizon Hotel, which was home to Lauren Bacall, Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly and Sylvia Plath. The gallery is three blocks south of the Park Avenue Armory and a block east of the Museum of American Illustration.
The gallery’s ever-changing collection includes a range of periods and subject matter, including paintings by the French and American Impressionists; Pre-Raphaelites; Hudson River School; Marine paintings by British and Scandinavian artists; Sporting art by British and American painters including racing and hunting subjects; landscapes by Corot and his followers in Barbizon; exquisite views of Italy and Spain; traditional 19th-century sculpture by Barye, Mêne and others; and a substantial selection of Orientalist paintings by artists such as Gérôme, Weeks, and Bridgman. Although most works date from 1830–1930, there are often exceptions, such as a group of 17th-century Italian drawings, 20th-century marine and sporting works, and several specially chosen contemporary paintings.
Mark Murray Fine Paintings caters to an international group of collectors, designers, and private and public institutions. Several museums have acquired works from the gallery: among them the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, the Dahesh Museum, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, and the San Diego Museum of Art, California. Paintings in the collection or acquired from the gallery have been included in major museum exhibitions at the British Library, London, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The gallery participates in various art fairs, most recently Master Drawings and October Art Week in New York in 2017.
Phone: 212 585 2380
Email: info@markmurray.com
Marlena Gronnegard
Designer
Phone: +27 (0) 8 27559067
Contact: Marlena Gronnegard
The MÁRÀ collection is designed by, and partially hand made by Danish designer and stylist Marlena Gronnegard.
"My background is in textile design with a degree from ESMOD in Paris but I have always had a passion and fascination for jewellery, leather and stones, materials which only become more beautiful with time"
"I have lived and worked in places like Copenhagen, Paris, Milan and New York but have now settled in Cape Town, a captivating city full of contrasts and everlasting inspiration..."
"Inspiration is something I find in many ‘odd’ places, it can be the charisma or energy of a person, it can be an interesting pattern, surface or structure, it can come from ‘a walk in the park’ or a trip to the dessert…in short I think it comes down to being receptive to the beauty we are all surrounded by."
Martha Foley
Consulting Archivist
Consultant to not-for-profit organizations and individuals concerning Identification, appraisal,preservation and availability of non current records of historical value. I organize and maintain archives for individuals and organizations, and also do historical research on a variety of topics including house histories. An experienced oral historian, I am available to help establish an oral history program, as well as to lecture on the subject. I have had extensive work with volunteers at all levels of expertise and enthusiasm.
Phone: 917 482 4435
Contact: Martha Foley
MIchelle Carano Designs
Interior Design
450 West 42 St., #8R, New York, New York 10036
Phone: 917 847 7400
Contact: Michelle Carano
Email: Michelle@MichelleCarano.com
Miller Gaffney
Art Adviser / Appraiser
123 Arlington Ave., Greenville, South Carolina 29601
Miller Gaffney has a wide-ranging background in the art world, having worked with leading auction houses, commercial galleries, artists, museums, and information-providers for art collectors. She began her career with L'Antiquaire & The Connoisseur on New York's East 73rd Street where her responsibilities included assisting in the purchase of artworks and antiques on behalf of collector clients from international auction houses. In 2004, she joined Art + Auction magazine. She was later called by its parent company, LTB Holding, to work as a Business Development Officer. While in these positions, she also worked as a private consultant for clients in New York and Europe.
Miller Gaffney is a graduate of the Sotheby's Institute of Art, a certified member of the Appraisers Association of America and International Society of Appraisers, auctioneer and member of the National Auctioneers Association, as well as a member of ArtTable. She founded Miller Gaffney Art Advisory in 2006 and lectures and writes on all aspects of art.
Phone: 888 251 9994
Contact: Miller Gaffney
NS International LLC
I took my first art history course my sophomore year in college. I was hooked.
I spent my childhood going to flea markets, tag sales, historical houses and museums but I didn’t fully appreciate the study of art and objects. In my career I have handled claims relating to automatic teller machines (ATMs), movie productions, paintings, antique books, 19th Century furniture, Chinese bronzes, Tiffany lamps- and yes, Cezannes and Chifforobes. Being a fine art loss adjuster allows me to bring my art and insurance knowledge to work for my clients. In balancing the needs of the art with the commercial needs of the client I produce viable results. Every situation is an engaging challenge allowing me to exercise my creativity and problem solving skills.I know that you have a choice when it comes to selecting an adjuster, read about what makes us different.
Phone: 212 734 7210
Contact: Nicole Sheley
Period Furniture Conservation
Furniture Conservation
37-18 Northern Blvd., Long Island City, New York 11101
Furniture conservator Yuri Yanchyshyn has worked with wooden objects and their owners for over 25 years in a variety of settings, from a cabinet-maker’s shop to the laboratories of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He regularly works on rare, valuable and handmade objects dating from the 14th through the 21st century, stabilizing their structures, restoring their historic integrity and minimizing the chances of future deterioration. Private collectors, museums, architects, decorative arts historians, fine arts advisors and designers have all entrusted treasured items to Yuri’s care, and institutions such as Christie’s invite him to lecture. Yuri is currently proprietor and Head of Studio at Period Furniture Conservation, LLC, a New York City-based firm.
Yuri was born in Philadelphia of Ukrainian parents and grew up in the Detroit metropolitan area. He and his wife Deborah have lived in New York City for over 25 years, and they have two sons. In his free time, Yuri enjoys reading and travelling. He is also an active volunteer for community non-profit organizations, including schools, museums and libraries.
Yuri holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the California Institute of the Arts. He received advanced training in conservation from the Amsterdam Academy for Restoration and the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, and frequently participates in ongoing continuing education courses.
Contact: Yuri Yanchyshyn
Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m
Phone: 212 255 7426
PFE Designs
Philip Colleck, LTD.
Antique Dealer
311 East 58 St., New York, New York
Established in 1938, this year marks our 80th anniversary. Philip Colleck, Ltd. specializes in very fine eighteenth and early nineteenth century English Furniture and works of art. We are located in midtown Manhattan in a pre-Civil War freestanding brick house at 311 East 58th Street, just east of Second Avenue. Our building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1967 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Two floors of exhibition space display our collection of William & Mary, Queen Anne, Georgian, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Regency furniture, with an emphasis on Chinoiserie, lighting, mirrors and screens
Phone: 212 486 7600
Mobile: 917 692 8855
Contact: Mark Jacoby
Quebracho
Gilded Wood Connoisseurs and Fine Frame Markers
421 Troutman St, Brooklyn, New York 11237
Quebracho is a studio for connoisseurs, who love and appreciate art, its history and the great painters of yesterday, but the art doesn’t stop there, many of these masters bequeathed us the exquisite frames that surround their paintings. We are dedicated to keeping alive that eloquent spirit that still shines through their works. Every one of our artisans is devoted to re-creating historical frames, to offer you the appropriate design for your treasured paintings. We adhere strictly to the highest standards of execution, so much so, that we raise it to an art form in itself, before one expert stroke of the carver’s tool is made; we effectuate the necessary research and development. We can re-create a lost frame or create a new one based on historical information. At the other end of the spectrum, we can design and create a frame for a contemporary painting. Our designs are based on the shapes and forms that we are so familiar with in the 20th century.
Phone: 718 326 3605
Contact: Marcelo Bavaro
Email: info@quebrachoinc.com
Red Feather Advisory & Appraisal, LLC
1414 South Penn Square, Suite 17A
Lisa Getzfrid is CEO and Founder of Red Feather Advisory & Appraisal, LLC, an art appraisal organization that serves a national clientele of private collectors, insurance companies, museums, galleries, legal and financial experts dedicated to protecting their fine art assets and those of their clients, with the highest level of truly independent art advisory and appraisal services.
Prior to establishing Red Feather, Lisa had a thirty-five year career as a senior insurance and healthcare executive and she brings this wealth of experience to her life long passion of the arts into this client-centered art appraisal business.
Her post graduate studies include continuing education specialty programs in late 19th, early 20th Century, Post Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, New York University, and The Barnes Foundation, where she attained her Barnes/DeMazia Certificate of Art Studies. Lisa is a member of several professional appraiser and art related organizations (PAFA, CFEVA, and TIAMSA,) is USPAP certified, and an associate member of the Appraisers Association of America.
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Phone: 215 360 7675
Email: lisagetzfrid@redfeatherllc.com
Email: lisagetzfrid@gmail.com
Renata Stein Fine Art
Fine Art
115 Bennett Ave., #52B, New York, New York 10033
While communicating the "brokenness" of our contemporary world, I see the creative process as an opportunity for transcendence and healing.
Assembling fragments, transforming everyday objects and infusing them with new meaning, has always been at the core of my artistic work. Collage, assemblage, and papermaking lend themselves particularly well to such to such transmutations from base material into new spiritual and poetic entities.
The tools through which I translate the fissures and displacements of modern life into a visual vernacular consist of splintered, discarded fragments, found materials, from old book fragments, to scrap metal, hair, sand, and leaves. Materials have their own intrinsic history and symbolism that I combine with contemporary concerns and issues: sand, for instance, tells the story of the earth and is associated with the wanderings of today’s refugees, nomads and exiles.
Phone: 212 574 8136
Mobile: 646 248 1103
Contact: Renata Stein
Email: rsteinfineart@mail.com
Russ Schleipman
Photography
Like wine, art is for sharing. I create images to share them with others. There is tremendous satisfaction in the creating, but the knowledge that I might delight, surprise, or inform others is my motivation. The work on this site reflects decades of wonderful travel and rich experience, from Saharan crossings to flying in ultralights over Mt St Michel to befriending penguins at the Straits of Magellan.
I strive to reveal the unusual in the usual, and find beauty in the mundane or regularly unnoticed. Grand vistas from the Sahara, Australia, France and elsewhere, intimate botanical studies, people, machinery and simple household objects all hold visual secrets and have their unique story, which I try to tell with rigorous attention to design and composition.
My audience is visually astute: interior designers, architects, art consultants and collectors. Engaging and entertaining their well honed sensibilities and demanding vision is a rewarding challenge.
Because beauty lies in the eye of the beholder and because my fascination with the world is nondiscriminatory, I will offer a broad range of subject matter. One woman’s lily is another mans fighter jet. This site will never be finished. It will grow in many directions.
These images can be scaled to your needs. Sometimes bigger is better. One cannot ignore a four foot parrot tulip. They can also be printed on a number of different materials and mounted or framed according to the demands of a given environment.
I also work on assignment. If you have an idea for a subject matter or treatment you’d like to explore, let’s discuss it. If you’re ready to share it, most likely it has withstood the test of time and is a good one.
Phone: 671 292 0055
Mobile: 617 899 9444
Contact: Russ Schleipman
Therese Ferrara
Freelance
Therese Ferrara is an arts professional with experience in museums, auction houses, and art galleries nationally and internationally. As a freelancer, her services range from graphic design, videography, marketing strategies, and more.
Email: thereseferrar5@gmail.com
The Antique Flâneur
Dealers / Appraisers
535 West 23 St. South 4R, New York, New York 10011
The Antique Flâneur provides a professional appraisal service for the valuation of the decorative arts especially fine American, English and Continental silver as well as English ceramics. I perform market assessment, insurance, estate tax and donation appraisals and produce carefully researched and compiled appraisal documents. I am Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) compliant through 19 March 2022 and am an accredited member of the Appraisers Association of America. Please consult my website, www.theantiqueflaneur.com for further information or email me at info@theantiqueflaneur.com.
The Antique Flâneur also assists clients in selling there antique and vintage items through a consignment agreement. In selling your items, whether you have one object or an entire collection, I find the best venue and market- online, at an auction house or selling to an antique dealer to realize the best price. Please consult my website for further details about consignments or email me
Phone: 201 341 6153
Contact: Kelly Keating
M-F 9am-4:30pm
Email: info@theantiqueflaneur.com
The Magazine Antiques
Magazine / Publication
110 Greene St., 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10012
The Magazine ANTIQUES is the authority on fine art and decorative art, an unparalleled forum of integrity and excellence. Year after year, savvy dealers rely on ANTIQUES as the centerpiece of their strategies to attract buyers.
ANTIQUES publishes six outstanding bi-monthly issues in print and online, with articles written by distinguished specialists, dealers, and noted writers in a refreshing light accompanied by beautiful photography. The magazine creates an engaging celebration of art from across the centuries and around the globe.
Advertising in ANTIQUES offers clients an ideal environment combining scholarship and style with a targeted readership that delivers true value and real results. Connects your business with the quality, tradition, and prestige held by ANTIQUES for over 90 ye
Phone: 212 941 2848
Contact: Cynthia Drayton
Tomasso Brothers
Fine Art Gallery
Bardon Hall
Weetwood Lane
Leeds
LS16 8HJ
United Kingdom
Based at Bardon Hall, Leeds, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art was established in 1993 and opened their London gallery in St James's in 2013. Dino and Raffaello are recognised internationally for specialising in important European sculpture from the early Renaissance to the Neo-Classical periods, with a particular knowledge of European Renaissance bronzes. They have interests in several other fields including Old Master paintings, antiquities, fine furniture and objects. Tomasso Brothers also advises the Arts Council of England's Reviewing Committee on the export of works of art and objects of cultural interest.
Dino and Raffaello have promoted and supported, through loans and exhibitions, major international institutions such as the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; the Centro Internazionale, Carrara; The National Gallery, Prague; and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. In 2012 Tomasso Brothers was one of the sponsors of the landmark show 'Bronze' at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
In addition to advising private collectors of European sculpture and Old Master paintings internationally, Dino and Raffaello have made significant sales to some of the world's most prestigious museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Bode Museum, Berlin; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, (Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and Rienzi Collection): The Liechtenstein Collection, Vienna; Yale Center for British Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
+44 (0) 1132755545
10am – 6pm Monday to Friday
Contact: Raffaello Tomasso
Email: info@tomassobrothers.co.uk
