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Maison Dominique, Macassar ebony chair with shagreen and ivory feet, circa 1930, 22 by 15 by 23 inches; courtesy Willy Huybrechts.

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BIENNALE DES ANTIQUAIRES WILL BE IN PARIS SEPT. 11–21, w/1 cut

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PARIS — The international antique and fine art fair, the 24th Biennale des Antiquaires, will take place September 11–21 in the historic Grand Palais, just off the Champs-Elysees. The 44,000 square feet of exhibition space will be filled with rare fine and decorative arts from the Seventh Century through the 1970s, presented by 95 galleries and dealers from Europe and North America.

Organized by the Syndicate National des Antiquaires (National Union of Antiques Dealers), the biennale will feature approximately 8,000 objects that represent more than a thousand years of history and document every decorating style. The exhibition will include museum-quality pieces from leading dealers in furniture, jewelry, painting, sculpture, books, maps and textiles.

Highlights range from late Twelfth Century Iranian incense burners and Fifteenth Century Flemish manuscripts to Seventeenth Century French bureaus and Louis XVI armoires.

Twentieth Century masterpieces include Art Nouveau necklaces and Art Deco clocks to furniture by masters of Modern design Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouve and Le Corbusier and canvases by Willem de Kooning and Pablo Picasso. Works on view hail from every continent, from early Twentieth Century African reliquary figures to Chinese Tang dynasty figurines, which date to the Seventh or Eighth Century.

The Grand Palais will also feature a series of interior and exterior gardens during the biennale designed to complement the works on view. This year’s gardens reflect a winter garden theme, under the glass roof of the Grand Palais, evoking the horticultural design of the first biennale in 1962.

This year’s fair will welcome eight new exhibitors, all from Paris: jewelers Dior Joaillerie and De Grisogno; the rare books and manuscript dealer Librarie Jean-Claude Vrain; Eighteenth Century French decorative arts specialists Kraemer & Cie; Seventeenth–Nineteenth Century furniture dealer Michel Guy Chadelaud; Modern and contemporary decorative arts dealer Willy Huybrechts; ceramics and glass dealer De La Bergen Bertrand and the modern and contemporary drawings gallery ALFA.

Three galleries based in New York City will exhibit at this year’s biennale. L&M Arts will show fine examples of early Twentieth Century paintings and works on paper, Adam Williams Fine Art will offer rare Old Master paintings and prints, and Beauvais Carpets will present antique carpets and tapestries.

The Grand Palais is at Avenue Winston Churchill. For more information, 011 33 144 517 474 or www.bdafrance.eu.