Thursday, May 4, 2017
6–8 p.m.
5:30 p.m. – Early Admission for Benefactors and Patrons
Join the Celebration at the Antique Garden Furniture Fair's Preview Party and Collectors’ Plant Sale
One of the most anticipated events of the spring, The New York Botanical Garden, event leadership, and celebrated Designer Chairman, Bronson van Wyck, will kick off its Antique Garden Furniture Fair: Antiques for the Garden and the Garden Room at the Preview Party and Collectors' Plant Sale. He will create a design based on a painting by Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass). Take part in a special benefit that attracts over 600 stylish guests and enjoy live music, signature cocktails and light fare, and preview the oldest and most beautiful collections of antiques, garden furniture, and architectural artifacts in the country. Named “Best in America” by experts, this spectacular annual show features the nation’s leading garden antique dealers offering unique items of the highest quality and provenance.