ROUND TOP Antique Week {Fall 09} Countdown: Marburger Farm
FOUR WEEKS AND COUNTING
till Round Top Antique Week…
Round Top Antique Week is more than just one antique show… it’s hundreds. And one of the premiere shows during Antique Week is at Marburger Farm. For many Marburger is the only place to stop while in Round Top and for good reason. Their collection of over 400 dealers ranges in every style and taste imaginable… from high end French Antiques to vintage carnival games to Wild West lamps & shades. There are artists, jewelers, and furniture craftsmen… modern, traditional, rustic and vintage. You’ll see it all at Marburger!!
So, here’s the scoop… Marburger opens with a preview on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 10am. The preview price is $25 per person. Now I’m tellin’ y’all that if you want the best of the best then this is the time to be at Marburger. I have seen women running from tent to tent, through the mud in high heels just to get the “good stuff”. If nothing else it’s worth the $25 just to be a part of the mayhem!!
Come 2pm on that same Tuesday the price drops to $10 per person. That charge will get you into Marburger Farm every day that they are open and includes free parking. This show is only on for five days, the dealers will start shutting it down on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at 4pm. DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!! It’s one of a kind.
Special Events this Fall 2009 Marburger Farm Antique Show will include…
1. We welcome special guests Kerry Rupp and Gretchen Moran and their photo crew as they visit Marburger Farm in preparation for the Parisian Cowboy’s Guide to the Round Top Experience. The Marburger Farm Antique Show will be a special feature in the book.
2. Visit from Reyne Haines, a media personality and local Houstonian who will be visiting Marburger Farm. Reyne’s new show, Art of Collecting, can be seen weekly starting in September on Houston’s NBC affiliate KPRC. She will be roaming the field looking for ideas for her show.
3. Live Plant Sale—Visit Wilde Weedz in Tent W, next to the General Store, for seasonal plants to fill those antique garden urns that you’ll find at Marburger Farm. Owner Agnes Strauss will offer blooming plants, bittersweet, garlands and wreathes in fall colors, plus garden antiques.
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4. KTEX 106.1 FM Radio will broadcast live from the show on Friday, Oct. 2. Enjoy the music and spin the prize wheel for goodies, including Marburger Farm souvenirs.
5. Food News –You’ll find some of your old favorites in the Marburger Cafe. But this fall Marburger Farm welcomes a full-service catering company, Sterling Affairs. This Austin company will be able to offer more food more quickly and at a better value for our customers. Expect barbecue, sandwiches, salads, breakfast, desserts and drinks. Try the “Mar-Burger!”
6. An on-site shipping service, an ATM machine and a licensed masseuse are also available.
Marburger Farm Antique Show in Round Top
Sept. 29 – Oct. 3, 2009
Salute to Shoppers who Know the Difference between a Hotel and a Home
Round Top, TX —- As the economy edges toward rebound and antiques dealers begin to exhale, another distraction looms: TV shows droning with tips for how to decorate homes to look like hotel rooms. Hotel rooms? What, then, will happen to antiques? —-to unique objects that maintain value, that hold memory and the past—and that would never be found in a hotel room?
The answer arrives on a cow pasture in Round Top, Texas when the Marburger Farm Antique Show opens its gates on Tuesday September 29 through Saturday October 3. Building on the spring show’s superb attendance, into Marburger Farm will stride bold shoppers, seeking antiques of value and character. These shoppers are all ages. Their wallets are all sizes. Many are professional designers. Their styles range from Swedish grays to mid-century metal. They are trend-setting. They are persistent. They will scour every inch of the mega-show’s ten huge tents and twelve historic buildings. The Marburger Farm Antique Show salutes all shoppers who know the fun of finding the most unique antiques at the best price in the most delightful place.
“If you decorate your home like a hotel, you’re going to get tired of it quickly because it’s so impersonal,” says Marburger Farm dealer Murielle Aberger of The French Influence Antiques. “It’s better to find things that are your style and your personality and that you want to keep for a long time. When someone walks into your home, they should see a little bit of you in it.”
From Paris, Aberger will bring bleached wood furniture, including a 19th c. Louis XV armoire. “The wood has a look that is both soft and stunning.” She will offer paintings, prints, chairs, tables and 1,000 of the old French paperback books that she binds into bundles, tied with twine. “At Marburger,” she says, “we have the best show in the world and business will be good.”
The love of antiques runs deep at Marburger Farm. Many dealers were born into the business. David Fishbein of City Different Antiques in Santa Fe, NM and Studio City, CA grew up in his mother’s estate sale company and sold antiques as a teenager. Fishbein and his wife, Gloria Lopez, will bring early photography, trade signs, folk art and textiles. “Texas,” says Lopez, “is one of the places where antiques are selling well. We’re excited about coming to Marburger.”
JR Angevine of Angevine’s Fine Silver in Deland, FL started a sterling matching service for his parents’ antique business, founded in 1959. Today he offers 50,000 pieces of sterling flatware and figural antiques such as the sterling napkin rings, baby gifts and Christmas ornaments that delight Marburger shoppers. In tow for Texas will be a 1799 tea urn from London. “It’s a large, impressive piece,” says Angivine. “It was made in the year that George Washington died.”
Mother-daughter team Peggy McFarland and Michelle Flowers of Ogden, UT will offer everything from antique fish decoys to crystal chandeliers to vintage tutus. A prized grouping will be a glass-topped table that was once a conveyor belt, displayed with a set of gold metal French chairs. “People are ‘going green.’ They are putting together the industrial and the beautiful,” says McFarland. “The gold, metal and glass look incredible together.”
Another family at Marburger Farm will be Pat and Karen Kenny of South Porch Antiques in Parma, NY. At his parents’ auction business in upstate New York, Pat Kenny met Karen at an auction. Their ten year old daughter, Bonnie, will help with pricing at Marburger and will have antiques of her own to sell. Superintendent for the beef cattle judges at the New York State Fair, Pat Kenny looks for architectural fragments from buildings and carnivals. Their truck and 25 foot cargo trailer will make the trip to Texas packed with unique and whimsical items, as well as functional American furniture ranging from country chic to more industrial urban styles.
Long-time Marburger dealer Don Orwig grew up attending Indiana farm auctions with his farmer father. On leaving home for college, Orwig attended a five day auction of an antique dealer who was going out of business. “No one liked this person, so nobody came,” remembers Orwig. “For $460 I bought seven massive loads of antiques, tied all over my truck. My dad had to send me some money. I was instantly in the antiques business.”
For Marburger, Orwig is introducing a new (and heavier) inventory. Alongside large lighting fixtures will be steel tables mounted on c. 1900 English pub table bases. The mix will include early advertising and “a great tiger maple chest of drawers.” Orwig concludes, “I’m really excited. If you have the right stuff at the right price, it will sell. Take the very best to Marburger and leave the rest at home.”
In addition to a passion for antiques, Marburger dealers are bound together by a willingness to work hard for their customers. Margaret Bostick of The Silk Purse Antiques in Atlanta, GA phoned in from a train in France at midnight, “It’s very hot in the south of France, but I have worked every day to find the most unusual items.” So far, that includes 18th and 19th c. Italian chandeliers, small tables and big silver mirrors, “very organic 19th c. pottery from Belgium and a large collection of the most unique decorative antiques.”
So join the nearly 400 vendors at Marburger Farm to stand up for antiques. Stand up for the beautiful, the rare, the old, the worn, the cherished, the textured. Stand up for character. Stand up for quirky. Stand up for one-of-a-kind. Stand up for the fun of searching until you find just the right piece. Stand up for the memory of that day, of who was with you, of the barbecue in the air and the hay underneath.
Stand up for personality and patina—-because at Marburger Farm the only thing that looks like a hotel room will be listed under “Lodging” on the website!
The Marburger Farm Antique Show runs Tues. Sept. 29 through Sat. Oct. 3, 2009. Admission is $10 and good all week Parking is free. Early buying runs from 10 am – 2 pm on Tuesday, September 29, for $25, with regular $10 admission starting at 2 pm until 5 pm. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday show hours are 9 am to 5 pm. Saturday hours are 9 am to 4 pm. Plan on breakfast and lunch in the Marburger Cafe and find information on vendors, travel, maps, lodging, shipping, bus trips, groups and special events at www.roundtop-marburger.com or call Rick McConn at 800-999-2148 or Ashley Ferguson at 800-947-5799.
