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"The Lure of Folk\nExploring the Treasures of New York's Americana Week with Designer Elissa Cullman\nFor designer Elissa Cullman, New York's Americana Week, which includes The American Antiques Show and the Stella Americana Pier Show, is a rich source for furniture, folk art and eclectic pieces. Cullman sits on a 1760s chair at a Queen Annetable set with delft and brass accessories from Mark &amp;amp; Marjorie Allen.\nAt The American Antiques Show, Cullman stands in front of a stack of 19 Shaker pantry boxes with their original paint. \"It looks like the Tower of Babel,\" says Charles P. Berdan, of Jewett-Berdan Antiques.\nA whimsical circa 1860-70 Nantucket, Massachusetts, whirligig from Jewett-Berdan.\nRJG Antiques offered a 1940s sea horse weathervane, top; circa 1850 barber poles; a 1922 hooked rug, center; and five golden plover decoys, a rare find, says dealer Russ Goldberger, since many were left to disintegrate after shorebird hunting was banned 80 years ago.\nA circa 1885 Navajo blanket from Hill Gallery.\nElliott &amp;amp; Grace Snyder's display featured a circa 1835 bed with an 1820 crewelwork bedcovering; an 1816 painted dower chest from New York; an 1860s hooked rug, right; 1825 fancy chairs and a 1790 Windsor chair.\nCullman calls the Jasp\u00E9 pottery presented by Woodard &amp;amp; Greenstein American Antiques \"very collectible\u2014France's answer to American redware.\"\nThe designer, who was a curator at the American Folk Art Museum in New York for five years, peruses the wares at The American Antiques Show, an event she says is \"a must on the folk art and Americana collector's itinerary.\"\nAt the Stella Americana Pier Show, Cullman holds a 1940 manikin from David &amp;amp; Kim Leggett, who also showed two 1930s African American quilts from Alabama\u2014one, at left, in a Housetop pattern and another made of dish towel and dress fragments.\nAn 18th-century wigmaker's head from Robert J. Perry.\nA late-19th-century painted wood weathervane was an uncommon piece offered by Nancy and Craig Cheney, of Newark, Ohio. \"We specialize in weathervanes; still, a wood cow is quite unusual,\" notes Craig Cheney.\nWoodbury, Connecticut, dealer Nancy Fishelson created a living room that included a circa 1825 pewter cupboard and a pair of Rhode Island wing chairs and a penny rug from the late 19th century.\nCullman, sitting on a 19th-century cast-iron bed from Susan E. Oostdyk Antiques, handles an array of textiles\u2014French mattress ticking, toile, homespun linen and French floral prints\u2014from the 19th century to the 1940s. Natural madder dye was used on the fabrics, allowing them to \"fade gracefully over time,\" she says."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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