BCAADA 2009-10 Free Map & Guide Now Available10:18AM / Friday, April 17, 2009
Berkshire County - The Berkshire County Antiques and Art Dealers Association (BCAADA) announces the distribution of the newly-released – and free – Berkshire County, Massachusetts Antiques & Art Map & Guide 2009-2010. The Guide is available through area Chambers of Commerce and local tourist outlets as well as in all of the BCAADA’s 45 members’ shops located in Berkshire County and in neighboring areas of Connecticut and New York State.
Detailed information about the BCAADA and all its members is contained in this 4-color Guide and Map with a circulation of 40,000. This Guide is also available on the BCAADA website www.bcaada.com with links to individual shops, as well as membership information and sources to help in planning an antiquing trip to the Berkshires.
The BCAADA was founded in 1973 – the first of its kind in the U.S. A major goal of the Association is to create and maintain better relations between dealer and customer and to avoid errors in judgment with regard to dating and descriptions of antiques and art, thus making the buying public the beneficiary of better business practices.
According to BCAADA President Edith Gilson of Cupboards & Roses Antiques in Sheffield, Mass., “We’ve heard brothers Leslie and Leigh Keno, from PBS’s Antiques Roadshow, describe the Berkshires as an ‘Antiques Mecca’, and this is quite true. Our dealers specialize in antiques ranging from American folk art to Chinese, from American wicker furniture to high-style English pieces, from French formal and country, to Swedish painted furniture. The bottom line is that our member dealers are unique in that they offer a rare depth of inventory so that visitors and residents alike can find just the right piece.”
In addition to Gilson, the BCAADA officers include Vice-President, Larry Solomon, Painted Porch Antiques, Sheffield, MA; and Treasurer, Susan Silver, Susan Silver Antiques, Sheffield, MA. Current Directors are Elise Abrams, Elise Abrams Antiques, Great Barrington, MA; Vivian Kimmelman, Berkshire Home & Antiques, Great Barrington, MA; Ellen Ring, Ellen Ring, Ltd., Great Barrington, MA; Alex Sarbib, Le Trianon, Sheffield, MA; and Adam Watson, PW Vintage Lighting, Great Barrington, MA.
To request the 2009-2010 BCAADA Map & Guide or an application for membership, contact Edith Gilson at Cupboards & Roses, (413) 229-3070 or email your request to info@bcaada.com. |
