Sanford L. Smith & Associates

Sanford L. Smith & Associates Four decades of art, design, and rare book fairs.

Tickets are now live for both the The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 44 March 15-17 and the Antiquarian Booksell...
02/13/2024

Tickets are now live for both the The Ephemera Society of America's Ephemera 44 March 15-17 and the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) New York International Antiquarian Book Fair April 4-7

The ABAA NYIABF at Park Avenue Armory, NYC | April 4 - 7

Art + design lovers, mark your calendars:   returns to Park Avenue Armory this November 10-14. Check out the full exhibi...
07/01/2022

Art + design lovers, mark your calendars: returns to Park Avenue Armory this November 10-14. Check out the full exhibitor list (for now) in Architectural Digest's “Need to Know” roundup ✨💥 + stay tuned for ticket announcements.

Here’s what you need to know

"When Sanford Smith talks about working in “show business,” he’s not referring to Broadway or Hollywood. Over the last f...
10/30/2019

"When Sanford Smith talks about working in “show business,” he’s not referring to Broadway or Hollywood. Over the last four decades he has produced some 130 fairs nationwide, bringing together dealers in art, design and antiques."

Read about Sanford Smith's personal collection in The New York Times "Show Us Your Wall" :

Modern pieces, Outsider Art, Americana. You name it, he hunted it down, then he sold it and moved on.

Sanford L. Smith + Associates was launched on this very day 40 years ago! It all began with the Fall Antiques Show in 19...
10/19/2019

Sanford L. Smith + Associates was launched on this very day 40 years ago! It all began with the Fall Antiques Show in 1979 and ever since, Sanford Smith has been known for initiating innovative niche art and design fairs that have generated international collecting categories. Cheers to a new decade of exceptional art and design fairs ✨

Plan your visit! Salon Art + Design, produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates, returns for its eighth edition at the Pa...
10/11/2019

Plan your visit! Salon Art + Design, produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates, returns for its eighth edition at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from November 14–18, 2019.

Presenting the world’s best design – vintage, modern and contemporary – enhanced by blue-chip 20th century and contemporary art, the Salon will feature 56 leading art and design galleries (from 13 different countries), spotlighting the trends of collectible design.

"In addition to managing shows, Smith has also patronised them: “I collect a bit of everything,” he says, starting with ...
06/24/2019

"In addition to managing shows, Smith has also patronised them: “I collect a bit of everything,” he says, starting with the shelves of shooting-gallery decoys that line the walls of his Chelsea townhouse office. “I try to buy at least one thing at every one of my shows."

Click to read the full profile on Sanford Smith and his four-decade career in art fairs by The Design Edit:

Judith Gura discovers how his instinct for design and innovative marketing was honed.

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Phyllis Kind a great friend and a founding member of the Outsider Art field.
10/10/2018

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Phyllis Kind a great friend and a founding member of the Outsider Art field.

Through her galleries in New York and Chicago, she showed the work of the Hairy Who, the Imagists, numerous other contemporary artists, and outsider figures in the United States and Europe. Read More

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447 W 24th Street
New York, NY
10011

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm

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+12127775218

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For over 40 years, Sanford Smith

has been known for initiating innovative niche art and design fairs that have generated international collecting categories.

He created the first All American Antiques Show at the Pier in 1980, when both the idea of an entirely American fair and any fair held at such a remote venue were nearly unthinkable. His second show, Modernism, was seminal; at that time, no other show had presented design material from 1860–1960 as a collecting category.

The fair enjoyed a successful run for over 25 years and spawned many number of shows exhibiting material from that period, but Modernism was indisputably the first and now The Salon Art + Design continues the tradition. Works on Paper followed Modernism, presenting a wide variety of watercolors, photographs, prints, drawings and pastels from Old Master to Contemporary. Again, Smith was the pioneer in the field which also generated more shows and even a magazine on the subject.