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The PalmBeach Post | Thursday, January 30, 2014
D |AccentCulture Editor: LarryAydlette 561-820-4436 or [email protected] | On theWeb: palmbeachpost.com
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Special Discover Disneydeal for Florida residents
What we’re lovin’: 3-DayDiscover Disney TicketWhy: For a limited time,
Florida Residents can enjoythree days at a Walt DisneyWorld theme park for $129per person. Visit one themepark per day, valid at anyone of the four Walt DisneyWorld theme parks from nowthrough April 11 and April 20to June 6. Excludes blackoutdates. Looking for more mag-ic? Enjoy a fourth day for just
$20 more.Where: 407-939-7682What we’re lovin’: The
Irish Comedy TourWhy: The clever come-
dians, whose ancestors hailfrom the Emerald Isle, in-clude Detroit native DerekRichards; Boston-born MikeMcCarthy; Nova Scotia’s Da-mon Leibert; and from In-chicore, a suburb of Dub-lin, Ireland, Derrick Keane.The funny troupe returnsto the area with a perfor-mance at the Borland Centeron Saturday. Tickets are $32and available at www.bor-landtheater.com.Where: The Borland
Center, 4885 PGABlvd., Palm BeachGardens; 561-904-3114What we’re lo-
vin’: Palm BeachSproutzWhy: Find Palm Beach
County’s most healthy,organic and fresh food,right at your fingertips.Palm Beach Sproutz is anew mobile website that’s
a one-stop-shopping spotfor healthy, local foods — thefarms that grow them, themarkets that sell them andthe eateries that serve them.Where: www.Palm-
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ByStaceySingerPalm Beach Post Staff Writer
Once the tap-tapping of thepiano tuner finally ceased,the halls of Max Planck Flor-ida fell silent. But before Juil-liard artist Yoonie Han arrivedfor the first of four “ScienceMeets Music” concert/lecturesat the Jupiter institute, a sci-entist sat down at the keys anddelivered a performance to beremembered.
At the piano was the insti-tute’s soft-spoken scientificdirector, Dr. Ryohei Yasuda,whose breakthrough researchon the biochemistry of short-term memory recently madethe pages of a prestigiousjournal, PNAS, the Proceed-ings of the National Academy
of Sciences.Yasuda ad-
mired the pi-ano’s in-ner machin-ery, its sleekblack wood.He recalledhis child-hood in Japan,
and a mother who demand-ed he spend an hour a daypracticing.
He resented it then, butthings changed as he grew in-to his teens and the music ofChopin, Beethoven and Bachopened to him.
And so at the first opportu-nity that chilly January day,he placed his fingers on theSteinway’s keys, and straightfrom his memory, played Cho-pin’s Fantasie Impromptu.
One by one, scientists lefttheir benches and computers
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Planck series looksat brain’s capacityfor music-makingLectures look at howthe brain creates andperforms music.
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ByBarbaraMarshallPalm Beach Post Staff Writer
Recently, Neneh Baggianihas witnessed the power ofthat old real estate adageabout location.
For most of last year, herOut of Africa Art Shop limpedalong on South Dixie High-way, below Forest Hill Boule-vard, some days without a sin-gle customer.
“It’s the dead zone there,”she said.
But since she movedinto a just-built retail-and-residential project on AntiqueRow, further north on thesame street, she’s welcomeda steady stream of collectorsbuying her ceremonial figuresfrom Ethiopia, her inlaidMoroccan mirrors and boldbrass jewelry from SouthAfrica.
“What I’ve done here in amonth is more than the en-tire seven months I was downthere,” said Baggiani, a nativeof Gambia, in West Africa.
For a shopping district fa-mous for the venerable andthe vintage, the Antique RowArt and Design District thisseason is all about the new.
New shops, new shop own-ers and for the first time indecades, new housing — aswell as a new top ranking as ashopping mecca — are draw-ing attention to this national-ly recognized stretch of shopsfilled with curios, curiosi-ties and pricey, pedigreed an-tiques.
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A New Energyon Anti ue RowShops, housing reinvigorate downtown art and antiques district
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Both retail and residential spaces are in theVillas onAntiqueRow.
NenehBaggiani, ownerofOut ofAfricaArt Shop in theVillas onAntiqueRow.The shop carries original and authenticAfrican andMoroccan art.BILL INGRAM PHOTOS / THE PALM BEACH POST
In recent years, Antique Row’s high/lowmix has beenmentionedin publications from the New York Times to House Beautiful
to Architectural Digest.
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Baggiani moved intoa 630-square-foot shopshe rents beneath theVillas on Antique Row inDecember, about a weekafter the first five retailspaces were completed.The remaining six retailspaces will be finished inMarch.
All the shop spacessold within two weeks ofgoing on sale last year, at$150,000 each.
“And we have awaiting list of 30people,” said HarryPosin, president ofLegend & Co, the Villas’developer.
The week before theproject’s townhomeshad their grand openinglast weekend, 25 percentof the 46 units hadalready sold, Posinsaid. Prices range from$320,000 to $490,000.Two were purchasedby Antique Row shopowners.
The land had been aweed-choked sandlotsince 2006 when the oldGoodwill store was razedand moved south ofSouthern Boulevard tothe 5400 block of Dixie.In those boom days,a previous developerplanned 82 units and14,000 square feet ofshops until the ideaflopped in the real estatemarket’s bust. Posinstarted constructionon a far smaller projectafter picking up theland for $3.6 million lastFebruary.
In recent years,Antique Row’s high/lowmix has been mentionedin publications fromthe New York Timesto House Beautiful toArchitectural Digest.
Earlier this month,Conde Nast Travelermagazine mentionedthe Row as one of thereasons its readers ratedPalm Beach the nation’sfourth best shoppingcity.
The magazine’sreaders heralded PalmBeach’s “easy-to-findplaces for both budget
and splurge” trips,including the AntiqueRow Art and DesignDistrict, a destinationfor home design andclothing shops. Simplyput, there is “somethingfor everyone.”
The fact that AntiqueRow is across theIntracoastal in WestPalm Beach seems amere quibble.
New York furnituredesigner Todd Hase wasalready spending thewinter in Wellington sohis teenage daughterscould ride in the WinterEquestrian Festival.Charmed by the Row’smix of more than 50shops, he bought oneof the Villas’ new retailspaces to sell his lineof modern French
furniture as well asthe antique Frenchpieces he picks up eachsummer in France.
To Hase, AntiqueRow’s concentrationof shops feels likeone of the Left Bankneighborhoods he’sfamiliar with in Paris.
“I think it’s verysimilar to Rue Bonapartein the St. Germaine
district in Paris, with itsconcentration of veryfine antique dealers. It’sa good fit for us. Theycan buy custom-madeupholstery from us thenfind Murano glass lampsfrom the dealer nextdoor,” said Hase.
Cheryl Grubb’s PatinaAntiques and DesignServices is anotherAntique Row newcomer,who opened recentlyafter moving from FortLauderdale.
Other shop ownersjumped at the chance tobe owners rather thanrenters.
For more than 20years, Christa Wilmrented space in the heartof Antique Row. Thisseason, she moved herChrista’s South Seashells& Jewelry shop acrossthe street to the Villas,as an owner.
“I’m so happy thiswonderful little placecame available topurchase,” Wilm said.“It’s smaller than myold space, but since I’mcarrying my seashellcreations only, insteadof antiques, I don’t needa big place anymore.”
The newly energizedatmosphere, shesays, feels like thecamaraderie of theyears when the fledglingantiques district was stillfilled with shops sellingcast-offs from PalmBeach condos.
“I love my newneighbors, who are newfaces to the Row. They’reall so enthusiasticand they all show upfor the (Antique Rowboard) meetings. I havea feeling this block isgoing to be like the olddays when we wouldhave potluck dinners,”Wilm said.
Antique RowAssociation presidentFaustina Pace isn’trelocating her shopof French industrialantiques but she didpurchase one of the newretail spaces to rent toanother merchant.
“Owning a place onAntique Row? Howcan that be a badinvestment?” said Pace.“There’s hardly ever avacancy for the season.”
In recent years, theRow has even siphonedoff several long-timePalm Beach interiordesign shops, such asLars Bolander, CindyRay and Mecox.
To Posin, addinghousing to anestablished retaildistrict with a nationalreputation seemed asure bet.
“We were pleasantlysurprised at how strongthe Antique Row brandis,” Posin said. “Add tothat, the total absence ofnew houses in the area.We think there are a lotof people who want tolive in the area but don’twant to have to do therenovation required ofan older property.”
Pace says she’shappy to see new lifeblossoming in a placewhose stock-in-trade isthe past.
“Having this newproject,” she said, “hasbrought new energy tothe street.”
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The Villas on Antique Row have prompted favorable comment in national publications. BILL INGRAM PHOTOS / THE PALM BEACH POST
Shops along Antique Row helped give Palm Beach its No. 4 ranking as best shopping area.
