Daily Show Tickets, $10, Run of Show Tickets, $15, available at the door.
Reserved Events Tickets: Gala Preview Party Tickets: $125; Appraisal Fair: $20 (includes show ticket); Featured Speakers Luncheons or Brunch -$60 to $40 (Details below*). For reservations, call BGT at (859)253-0362, online at www.bluegrasstrust.org
New at this year’s BGT Antiques & Garden Show:
- Our location at the Kentucky Horse Park’s Alltech Indoor Arena, Iron Works Pike
- A Vintage Car Show (displayed on the Arena floor throughout the show)
- Appraisal Fair with Cowan’s Auctions (Saturday, March 17 from 10 am to 4 pm,$20 prepaid reservations required-includes daily show admission and appraisal of two items, with appraisers Wes Cowan, Diane Wachs and Tara Eggleston-Johnson of Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio)
- New Featured Luncheon Speaker Category of “Sustainability”: featuring the world-renowned activist, architect and sustainability expert Sergio Palleroni, 2012 Latrobe award winner
Renewed are our interior design and landscape lectures, with Award-winning featured speakers Suzanne Kasler, Interior Designer, and James Doyle, Landscape Architect (Please see Bios, Lecture Details, Ticket info below on the three Featured Speakers)
- Antiques & Garden Show event co-chairs are Brenda and H. Foster Pettit
Renewed & Expanded Complimentary Lectures, Two per day are as follows:
Friday, March 16:
- “Collecting the Early South” with Taylor Thistlewaite – @ 2: 00 pm
- “Lessons Learned: Stories from 35 Years of Collecting” with Jim Dawson - @ 3:30 pm
Saturday, March 17:
- “Josiah Wedgewood, His Legacy and Its Impact on the Generations That Followed” – with Lord Wedgewood - @ 12 Noon
- “Designing Your Backyard: More Isn’t Better, Better is Better” – with Dave Miller and Ken Owens, Nature’s Expressions
Sunday, March 18:
- “Understanding and Collecting Early Kentucky Silver” with Jerome Redfearn - @ 12:30 pm
- “Breaking with Tradition: The Front Yard Garden without Grass” with Ezra Haggard - @ 2:30 pm
Renewed: 78 Quality antiques, collectible and garden exhibitors from 17 states, Designer vignettes and retail exhibitors. A sampling of our exhibitors from every category: Jon Carloftis Fine Gardens, Clifton Anderson Antiques, Malchione Sporting Antiques, For Friends, Kimbrel/Birkman Interior Design and many more. (See the website for complete list at www.bluegrasstrust.org
*Featured Speaker Info:
Suzanne Kasler Lunch, Lecture & Book Signing: Friday, March 16, 11:30 a.m. $60 per person, includes Daily Show ticket. Reservations required, call (859)253-0362,
or on-line at www.bluegrasstrust.org
Suzanne Kasler, principal of Suzanne Kasler Interiors, often asserts that “a room should be collected, not decorated.” Incorporating her clients’ collections with fine art, antiques, contemporary pieces and custom-designed furniture, her interiors straddle that rare middle ground between sophisticate and ingénue. Her classic interiors have been featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, House Beautiful, Shouse & Garden, Southern Accents, Traditional Home and Veranda. Kasler’s first book, Inspired Interiors, featured her “deft use of couture-like detailing, a keen sense of sublime color selections, and an aesthetic that seamlessly bridges American and European sensibilities.” Her published work has won numerous awards, placing Kasler among the elite of America’s top designers and named to Elle Décor’s “A-List” of 25 designers in 2010. Although Kasler’s brand has expanded exponentially over the last few years with a furniture line for Hickory Chair, lighting for Visual Comfort, rugs for Safavieh, accessories for Ballard, fabric for Lee Jofa, and fine art for Soicher-Manin, she remains true to her passion for designing interiors.
Sergio Palleroni Brunch Lecture, Saturday, March 17, 10:00 a.m.
$40 per person, includes Daily Show ticket, reservations required, (859)253-0362
Sergio A. Palleroni, professor and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University, looks for ways to include architects in public interest projects, and build “million-dollar ideas with $100 in parts from Home Depot.” He co-founded the BaSiC Initiative (www.basicinitiative.com), with its goal to find environmentally sustainable and community-based design solutions for impoverished communities. Taking students around the world, the program has successfully designed and built over 95 projects ranging from schools and urban gardens, to infrastructure such as solar fields. They’ve built an outdoor solar kitchen in Mexico using focused sunlight rather than burning wood, solar bakeries for a community in Tunisia with a 7,000 year history of making bread, and constructed an off-the-grid school in India at the request of the Dalai Lama. This selfless, public approach has made Palleroni a star of a different order, regularly finding himself rubbing elbows with prominent advocates like Jane Goodall, Richard Gere, Prince Charles, Richard Branson and others. Palleroni has received numerous awards including the American Institute of Architects’ 2011 Latrobe Prize, the National Design Award from the White House, the National Green Education Award, and inducted into the International Design Hall of Fame.
James Doyle Lunch Lecture Saturday, March 17, 1:00 p.m.
$40 per person, includes Daily Show ticket, reservations required, (859)253-0362
James Doyle, of Cork, Ireland, is principal and founder of Doyle Herman Design Associates in Greenwich, Connecticut. Together with Kathryn Herman, he developed an award-winning design business with projects in the U.S. and overseas, ranging from small courtyards to large country estates. Visiting gardens worldwide greatly influenced Doyle’s work and allowed him to develop both contemporary and traditional designs, with projects featured in Veranda, garden Design, Connecticut Cottages & Gardens, Garden Design Journal and Exteriors. Recipient of numerous awards, Doyle Herman Design Associates was name the 2010 APLD International Landscape Designer of the Year, received the Gold medal for Harmony Farm and in 2011 for Harmony Farm residential project. Doyle currently serves on the Architectural Review Committee of the town of Greenwich.
Contact: Sheila Omer Ferrell
BGT Executive Director (859) 230-8000
