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Engagement Rings: Interview and Live Tweet with Antiques Roadshow

Learn more about antique engagement rings from A La Vieille Russie. And tune in to watch Mark Schaffer on ROADSHOW in Baton Rouge, February 17, 2014, on your local PBS station. Mark will be live tweeting with Antiques Roadshow from the A La Vieille Russie Twitter handle on February 17 from 8/7c-9/8c PM.  Follow […]

ALVR at Maastricht/TEFAF reported by Blouin Art Info

New-York based art and antique gallery A La Vieille Russie (ALVR) is preparing to exhibit a cross-section of its inventory at the world-renowned European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in the Netherlands. Among the works to be shown will be is a selection of unique pieces by Fabergé including a 19th century presentation charger, a […]

NTV RUSSIA

До конца ноября в Нью-Йоркеработает выставка, на которой можно увидеть экспонаты частной коллекции семьи потомственных ювелиров. Среди них — знаменитые пасхальные яйца Фаберже, которые делались по заказу российского царского двора. Первое яйцо было изготовлено в конце XIX века по заказу Александра III для его жены Марии Фёдоровны…   Репортаж корреспондента НТВ Юлии Васильченко.

1stDibs on The Sandoz Collection at ALVR

On Location: Mechanical Wonders At A La Vieille Russie Through November 26, 2011 Anthony Barzilay Freund A remarkable Swiss collection of priceless bejeweled automatons alights in New York, at A La Vieille Russie, for its first public showing in more than 60 years.

Toys of Gold – The New York Times, October 27, 2011

Last week an entourage of 30 people … unloaded …  jeweled gold windup toys at A La Vieille Russie gallery on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The pieces had just arrived from Switzerland, where most of them were manufactured in the 18th and 19th centuries. They double as snuffboxes, perfume containers and timepieces, with mechanisms […]

A La Vieille Roboterie? – Artnet.com

Leave it to the Schaffer family, heirs to the 160-year-old A La Vieille Russie, located at the corner of Central Park on Fifth Avenue smack dab next door to the Sherry Netherland Hotel, to sport the nation’s most enticing decorative arts show. Read More Photo © 2011 Fondation Édouard et Maurice Sandoz, Pully, Switzerland, […]

Miracles in Motion – Forbes.com

Clockwork Toys of Philosophers and Czars, Automata Retain their Power to Astonish. In the Russia of Czar Nicholas II, no secret was more closely guarded than the surprises inside the precious eggs he gave to his wife and mother each Easter. Even Nicholas himself didn’t know in advance what was coming from Peter Carl […]

Beautiful Shopping on The Sandoz Collection at ALVR

From 26 October through 26 November 2011, a very special loan exhibition travels from the Watch Museum of Le Locle (Musée d’Horlogerie du Locle) to New York. . . Read More

WatchTime.com on Mechanical Wonders Exhibit at ALVR

From October 26 – November 26, a selection of beautiful and rare pieces from the personal collection of Maurice Sandoz will be on display at A La Vieille Russie in New York City. The exhibition includes rare pieces by Fabergé, singular vintage pocket watches, modern Parmigiani timepieces, plus two new wristwatches from Parmigiani. Read […]

International Watch Magazine on Mechanical Wonders Exhibit at ALVR

Parmigiani Fleurier and A La Vieille Russie, the New York antiques gallery specializing in European and American antique jewelry and Russian works of art, are teaming up to present Mechanical Wonders: Antique Automatons and Contemporary Watchmaking, offering watch collectors and connoisseurs a unique opportunity to celebrate the art of watchmaking. The exhibition of the […]

A La Vieille Russie – in Forbes (advertising)

A La Vieille Russie Source: Forbes Magazine (Advertising) AH LAH VEE-AYE ROOSEE … an old firm in the modern world. 145 years young! WE have seen a great deal since our founding as a family business in Kiev in 1851. And, from this vantage point, we have seen the earlier forms of the computer […]

Antiques: Russian Treasures

Source: The New York Times, December 19, 2003 By Wendy Moonan. Excerpted from The New York Times, December 19, 2003. Page E41. Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company Russian Treasures The 150-year-old company À la Vieille Russie has greatly expanded its gallery at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. “We wanted to have more […]