FACT SHEET
Current: Nov. 16, 2004
Official
Show Name: Chicago Antiques Fair™
Show Location,
Dates and Times: The Merchandise Mart, 8th-floor Market Suites
Thursday, April 28, 2005 Preview Party to Benefit The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC)
Friday, April 29, 2005 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
Saturday, April 30, 2005 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday, May 1, 2005 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday, May 2, 2005 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Show Manager: Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. (MMPI)
Suite 470, The Merchandise Mart
Chicago, IL 60654
Phone: 312.527.4141
Web Site: www.merchandisemart.com/chicagoantiques
Overview: The eighth annual Chicago Antiques Fair™ is an important destination on the antiques and fine art fair circuit. From April 29-May 2, 2005, collectors, connoisseurs, designers and the general public are invited to experience the finest assortment of objets d’art and worldly treasures as presented by national and international dealers.
Show Space: More than 30,000 square feet of exhibit space at The Merchandise Mart’s
8th-floor Market Suites.
Products
Represented: 20th-century design, paintings, architectural designs, posters, Asian art and antiques, prints, ceramics, rare books and maps, decorative arts, sculpture, folk art, silver, furniture, jewelry, textiles, glass and tribal art.
Number
of Exhibits: Approximately 100 premier, national and international antiques and fine art
dealers are exhibiting in the show.
Expected
Attendance/
Attendee Profile: More than 10,000 collectors, consumers, designers and architects are expected
to attend the Fair.
Tickets: $12 per person at the door.
To Exhibit: Contact Laurette Lutiger at 312.527.7069.
Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. (MMPI) is a trade show and property management firm, specializing in managing buildings devoted to wholesale showrooms and commercial office space. MMPI produces more than 300 trade shows, market events and conferences each year.
MMPI manages The Merchandise Mart, Chicago Apparel Center, and 33 North Dearborn in Chicago; Market Square, the Suites at Market Square, Hamilton Market, Plaza Suites, Furniture Plaza and the National Furniture Mart in High Point, N.C.; the Architects & Designers Building in New York; the L.A. Mart in Los Angeles; and the Washington Design Center and Washington Office Center in Washington, D.C.
Vornado Realty Trust, owner of MMPI, based in New York City, is a fully integrated equity real estate investment trust. Vornado’s common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and are traded under the symbol VNO.
Nicole Serr
Public Relations Associate
Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.
Phone: 312.527.7841
E-mail: nserr@mmart.com
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