FACT SHEET

Current: Nov. 16, 2004

Official

Show Name: Chicago Antiques Fair

Show Location,

Dates and Times: The Merchandise Mart, 8th-floor Market Suites

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 Fairis 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.

MEDIA INQUIRIES ONLY:

Nicole Serr

Public Relations Associate

Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.

Phone: 312.527.7841

E-mail: nserr@mmart.com

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