Gary
M. Piattoni
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Gary
M. Piattoni...President, Gary Piattoni Decorative Arts,
Inc.
Gary M.
Piattoni is an Illinois native with extensive experience
in the art and auction industry. In January of 2002,
he started Gary Piattoni Decorative Arts, Inc., a fine
art and antiques appraisal and consulting company. This
came as a natural step after his experience at Eppraisals.com
where he was Executive Vice President and one of the
founding members. At the time, Eppraisals.com was the
largest online appraisal service on the web. While at
Eppraisals.com, Mr. Piattoni was responsible for building
and directing a network of over 700 experts in 300 collecting
categories.
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Prior
to joining Eppraisals.com, Mr. Piattoni was a Senior Vice
President at Christie's International Auction House.
During his tenure at Christie's, Mr. Piattoni worked in a
variety of roles, most recently as Christie's Midwest
Managing Director in Chicago, where he was responsible
for business development over a fourteen state area. Before
his move to Chicago, Mr. Piattoni was Director of Operations
at Christie's New York, where he was responsible for
auction logistics. It was in this role that he was part of
the six person construction project team as Christie's built
its flagship headquarters at Rockefeller Center. Mr. Piattoni
first joined Christie's as Director of European Decorative
Arts at Christie's East. Working as both appraiser
and manager, he directed monthly sales of decorative arts
including specialty sales such as: European Furniture and
Decorative Arts from the Collection of Norma Kamali; Property
of Donald J. Trump from the Mansion at Seven Springs and Mar-a-Lago;
The Art of Invention; and American Patent Models 1836-1899
from the Cliff Peterson Collection.
As
a nationally recognized expert in art and antiques, Mr. Piattoni
has appeared on PBS's Antiques Roadshow, The Oprah Winfrey
Show, The Maury Povich Show, WGN Radio's Milt Rosenberg Extension
720, among others. He has also contributed to numerous
articles in such publications as New York Magazine, Town
& Country, Chicago Magazine and Design Times.
Mr.
Piattoni's area of expertise is European Furniture and Decorative
Arts and Militaria. A graduate of the University of Chicago,
he holds a certificate in Appraisal Studies from New York
University and a Masters of Fine Art from the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago.
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