Antiques at the Gardens with Honorary Chair Leigh Keno

The popular Antiques in the Gardens show is back at the Gardens for Friday & Saturday, July 23 & 24, with 30 premier dealers from the Maine Antiques Dealers Association selling items of every description. Leigh Keno, a luminary in the field of antiques, is the honorary chair of the event and attended the Gala Preview Party on Thursday, July 22.

The Antiques in the Gardens show and sale is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $12 for the show alone and $20 for the show and Gardens. Tickets are available at the Gate.

Antiques in the Gardens, now in its third year, just keeps getting better, and the  Gala Preview Party was great fun. Check out the feature story in Maine Home + Design (October 2009) for what was hot at last year’s Preview Gala.

The following businesses attended:

1828 Vintage House Wine & Cheese, Boothbay, ME
Allagash Brewing Co, Portland, ME
Belle Fete, Brunswick, ME
Berts’ Awesome Stuff, Auburn, ME
Bistro Catering Maine, Warren, ME
Blacksmiths Winery, South Casco, ME
The Boathouse Bistro, Boothbay Harbor, ME
Boston Beer Company, Boston, MA
Brown’s Wharf, Boothbay Harbor, ME
Cabin Fever Maple Whiskey, Chester, NH
Cabot Creamery, Montpelier, VT
Cellardoor Winery, Lincolnville, ME
Cornucopia Beverages (Moxie), Bedford, NH
Fiddler’s Reach Winery, Bath, ME
Gelato Fiasco, Brunswick, ME
Linekin Bay Resort, Boothbay Harbor, ME
McSeagull’s, Boothbay Harbor, ME
Northern Maine Distilling Company, Houlton, ME
Spruce Point Inn, Boothbay Harbor, ME
Swan’s Way, Camden, ME
Sweetgrass Farm Winery & Distillery, Union, ME
The Thistle Inn, Boothbay Harbor, ME
TREATS, Wiscasset, ME
Wicked Joe Coffee, Brunswick, ME

Honorary Chair Leigh Keno
Leigh Keno is president of Keno Auctions, a full service auction house based in Manhattan, which sells fine furniture, paintings, folk art, decorative arts and jewelry.  His lifelong immersion in the world of art and antiques has made him one of the foremost experts in the field. He holds a B.A. in art history from Hamilton College and was a graduate fellow at Historic Deerfield and a visiting scholar at Winterthur Museum.

Between 1979 and 1984, Keno worked as the Director of the American Furniture Department at Doyle Galleries in New York City. In 1984, he took dual positions as Vice President of Appraisals and as a Specialist in the American Furniture Department at Christie’s in New York.  In 1986, he formed Leigh Keno American Antiques, where he handled an astounding variety of American furniture, folk art and paintings including several masterpieces, setting world-record prices at auction.  Keno is proud to have helped build some of the best private and institutional collections of Americana in the world.  He continued to operate Leigh Keno American Antiques until the founding of Keno Auctions in 2009. Keno has written extensive articles on American furniture and decorative arts and has lectured throughout the country. He is currently an Editor-at-Large for Traditional Home magazine.  In 2000, Leigh and his twin brother, Leslie, authored Hidden Treasures: Searching for Masterpieces of American Furniture, which recounts some of their most-memorable furniture discoveries. In 2005, the President of the United States awarded Leigh the National Humanities Medal.

Special thanks to our media partner Maine Home + Design.

Antiques in the Gardens is sponsored by:

JORGENSEN LANDSCAPING of Bath, 207-443-9306