Rooms With a Garden View

Antiques & Garden Show proves that vintage is never out of fashion

For more than 30 years, thousands of visitors have been gasping and exclaiming at the treasures and landscapes of the Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville — the reaction that visionary and friend of the Show, the late Albert Hadley, always desired. He believed the uno cial goal of the Antiques & Garden Show to be to “give them what they never knew they wanted.”

“An Annual Celebration of Antiques, Art & Horticulture Benefiting Nashville,” first co-chaired by Connie Cigarran and Sigourney Cheek, has adhered to the same basic format since its inception in 1991. This layout remains a fantastic symbiotic relationship — the gardens provide a picturesque setting for the antiques.

Known for featuring antiques, art, magnificent gardens and cocktail parties, the Antiques & Garden Show also has a rich history of lectures and panels from some of the most renowned design, landscape and architectural speakers in the world. Now the longest-running event of its kind, this volunteer-driven show has raised nearly $9 million to benefit Cheekwood Estate & Gardens and the Economic Club of Nashville (ECON).