- Holiday trees grace the corners of The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center.
This month, the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center is dressed in its holiday best and there are no ornaments we enjoy more than our beautifully bedecked holiday trees. This year’s gracefully festooned trees have been designed by Linda Pastorino and John Serdula.
Holiday tree by Linda Pastorino at the main entrance, The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center
The opulent pine, redolent of holiday cheer, which greets visitors at the Center doors (above) is the creation of maximalist designer, Linda Pastorino. Ms. Pastorino is a respected authority on tribal jewelry and textiles in the New York art world, and an avid ethnic antiques collector herself. In recent years, her taste for global objet d’art has expanded to exotic horticulture. She has come to use garden design and greenery to highlight the beauty of significant homes, and in our case, the home of significant objects!
Holiday tree by John Serdula in the window display, The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center
The snow-dusted tree, draped with strands of milky pearls and illuminated baubles, gracing our holiday window (above), was designed by painter and former director of the Annina Nosei Gallery, John Serdula. Mr. Serdula is also an ardent collector, whose East Village home, brimming with paintings and colorful bric-a-brac, was recently featured in Time Out New York. Happily, he brought his taste for playful profusion to our tree.
