The San Francisco Fall Show is the leading international art, antiques, and design fair on the West Coast. Founded in 1982, the Show features over 40 of the top dealers from around the world, offering for sale an extraordinary range of fine and decorative arts representing all styles and periods, including paintings, furniture, precious metals, ceramics, jewelry, rugs, photography, works on paper, books, ethnographic art, and objets d’art. This year, The San Francisco Fall Show celebrates "La Dolce Vita" – the quintessentially Italian approach to the “good life”. 

DATES
Opening Night Gala on October 11, Show Dates October 12 – 15

SHOW HOURS
Thursday October 12 through Saturday October 14: 10:30am – 7:00pm
Sunday, October 15: 11:00am – 5:00pm

LOCATION
Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
2 Marina Blvd
San Francisco CA 94109

A Holiday Homage To The Stylish Art of Darkness: Sophisticated 1940's French Drinks Cabinet in Black Glass with Peach-Color Mirrored Border and a Noirish Apertif, Blackberry Kir Royale!

William Stanisich Watercolors and other works presented by epoca
Artist Statement:  Why A Signature Style? by William Stanisich.  I am drawn to specific light and idiosyncratic forms whenever I encounter them. A few years ago I had a recognition scene. I had been working to capture the light and inner forms of a number of places around the world. But what could be more idiosyncratic and inexhaustible than Land's End? [..] Two distinct series of Milos paintings are included in this website. I have been to Greece six times, never trying to recover antiquity but always seeking clarity and radiance. [..] I love to paint the Night. The first two series of watercolors in this website play with ambiguous spaces and veiled or insolent color, all at Night, which is itself ecstatic and sinister.

"FLOWER POWER: Floral Imagery in Art, Antiques & Design" 

epoca is excited to be participating in The 2017 San Franicsco Fall Antiques Show,  "FLOWER POWER: Floral Imagery in Art, Antiques & Design". With a hometown nod to the 50th anniversary of San Francisco’s historic Summer of Love, we are delighted to announce the 2017 Show theme, FLOWER POWER: Floral Imagery in Art, Antiques & Design. Our inspiration springs from the beauty and romance of blooms and blossoms, and their iconography throughout the ages

Opening Night Preview Gala Wednesday, October 25. 
Show Days Thursday, October 26 - Sunday, October 29.

Be Our Guest: Complimentary Event Ticket courtesy of epoca!

Epoca Booth #B1: The 37th Annual San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show theme is The Sun, The Moon & The Stars: Celestial Imagery in Art, Antiques & Design. Depicted by nearly every culture throughout time, celestial elements hold mystery, splendor, and symbolism. The sun is regarded as a symbol of life, power, and rebirth; the phases of the moon symbolize immortality, eternity, and purity; stars may represent the knowledge of good and truth, inspiration, imagination, dreams, and divine guidance. The sky humbles us and the celestial bodies we see from earth have long been inspiration to artists and artisans.
 Be Our Guest: Complimentary Event Ticket courtesy of epoca!

2018 Show Dates: October 11- October 14
Opening Night Preview Gala: October 1

When you’re in the mood for something dark with a touch of mystery this holiday, may we suggest,  Black Manhattans served on MidCentury Nickel-Plated And Black Glass Drinks Cart. So classic, so chic!

Holiday Entertaining: Red, Green & Gold, these colors are nothing, if not festive! epoca's cocktail and bar cart combination draws on these definitive holiday hues for a most glamorous and celebratory soiree, Pomegranate and Cranberry Mojitos served on a PAIR of Glam Mid-century Hollywood Regency Bar Carts! Remember "Christmas Comes But Once a Year"

Paul T. Frankl, October 14, 1886 – March 21,1958 / Johnson Furniture Co. 1908 - 1983, Grand Rapids, Michigan

An émigré from Austria, Frankl settled in New York in 1914 and quickly saw a country awash in reproductions of uncomfortable European styles. From the start, Frankl took a different approach, designing sleek, unadorned pieces that reflected advances in American technology and changes in culture. In the early 1950s Johnson Furniture Company produced several lines by Paul Frankl, among them the “Contemporary” line, incorporating an early use of biomorphic designs.

Modern, inside-out Paul T. Frankl's sleek simplicity gave rise to a California look.

L.A. Times Article August 16, 2007 by Bettijane Levine 

"Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design.", Christopher Long, Yale University Press, 2007

epoca Holiday 2017 drinks: A polished, proper & posh pairing certain to impress: Queen Elizabeth's Gin & Dubonnet and an English Art Deco Demi Lune Bar

In honor of International Women's Day, epoca highlight's the work of an amazing mid-century female sculptor, Joanna Gichner Kendall. 
Joanna Gichner Kendall (b. 1899, Baltimore,  MD. d. April 20, 1989) A portrait sculptor, she fulfilled numerous commissions for portrait busts of notables, including President John F. Kennedy and Will Rogers

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epoca presents San Francisco Artist, William Stanisich, Watercolors and other works 
"The world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty, the beauty of speed." -- Filippo Marinetti In brilliant colors complemented by velvety blacks and the virginal white of untouched paper, William Stanisich’s nocturnal street scenes are a paradoxical combination of speed and utter stillness.  In these virtuoso watercolors, every surface pictured, wet with rain, has been transformed into a vehicle for light. 
The paintings themselves tell their story, of color applied and moved; of how an artist can take water, paper, and pigment and make moving pictures--in more than one sense of the word.   Studying them, you can almost hear the sound of cars on wet pavement; of horns and engines, speeding away from you, into the night.