Keith McCullar and our gallery manager, Eric Liebau, are setting up our booth at the Los Angeles Antiques Show as this is written, with my own self heading to the south land later this afternoon. Poor Eric- he will have to return later today, to mind our denuded galleries during the run of the show. We’ve pulled rank, I’m afraid. With all that, Eric’s contribution is tremendous, certainly during the setup of our booth. Keith and I, when we work together at set-up- well, it gets ugly, not just occasionally, but invariably.
My Pasadena-based sister Karen Tremper telephoned yesterday to say she saw a full page ad for the show in yesterday’s LA Times and the TV channels have provided, and hopefully will continue to provide, coverage. The second largest city in the US, Angelenos are not short of things to do, so frequent media blasts insure that those who might attend are motivated to attend. Still, we do hope for slow news days, as a couple of years ago, our promised TV coverage was squeezed out by the frenzy generated by the death of Anna Nicole Smith. A great lover of the arts….
A couple of real bright spots for us at the LA Show will be the return to the show of Imari, 
a fantastic dealer in Japanese art, and the brand new participation of Hollyhock, the venerable West Hollywood antiques store owned by one of the mavens of design, Suzanne Rheinstein. Hopefully, Suzanne will have some period soft furnishings upholstered in her extraordinary new line of fabrics, designed for Lee Jofa.