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Leigh Keno American Antiques is located in an upper Eastside Manhattan turn-of-the-century townhouse, once owned by the former Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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ABOUT US
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Established in 1986, Leigh Keno American Antiques specializes in eighteenth and early nineteenth century American furniture, decorative arts, and paintings. Our inventory includes Pilgrim, William and Mary, Queen Anne, Chippendale, Federal, and Classical furniture. For more than 20 years, Leigh Keno American Antiques has dealt in the highest quality Early American antiques.
Leigh Keno American Antiques purchases items for inventory outright from private collections and at auction and also offers items on consignment. In addition to assisting clients with objects in our own gallery, we also advise clients wishing to purchase items at auction. A written guarantee and a full description and condition report attesting to an object's authenticity, signed by Leigh Keno, accompany every object sold or brokered by our company. Our firm is proud to have helped build many of America's finest public and private collections.
We participate in two antique shows annually: The Winter Antiques Show in New York City in January, and The Philadelphia Antiques Show in April.
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ABOUT LEIGH KENO
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 Leigh Keno (New York, N.Y.) is president of Leigh Keno American Antiques, a gallery in Manhattan dealing in fine eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American furniture and decorative arts. During the past 18 years, he has helped build some of the top institutional and private collections of American furniture and decorative arts. Actively involved in the field of American antiques since childhood, he was a fellow at Historic Deerfield and visiting scholar at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. After receiving a B.A. in art history from Hamilton College in 1979, Leigh came to New York City and joined William Doyle Galleries, where he was director of the American furniture department. In 1984 he joined Christie's, first serving as vice president of their appraisal company and later joining the American furniture department as a senior specialist. In that capacity, Leigh appraised items across the country and negotiated the consignment of important examples of American furniture.
From 2001 through 2005, he and his twin brother wrote monthly furniture and design columns for House Beautiful and This Old House magazines, respectively. In November 2000, Warner Books published Hidden Treasures: Searching for Masterpieces of American Furniture, a book both Keno brothers wrote with Joan Barzilay Freund. Leigh has co-authored two groundbreaking articles on Boston's Georgian chairs for the 1996 and 1998 editions of the journal American Furniture, published by the Chipstone Foundation. Leigh is a friend of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a friend of Historic Deerfield, and a member of the National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America and the Antiques Dealers Association of America. For the past ten years, Leigh Keno and his brother Leslie have appeared regularly as appraisers on the hit PBS series Antiques Roadshow, and, since October 2003, co-hosted a show on WGBH called Find!, which celebrates the world of design, style, antiques and furnishings. Leigh Keno lectures extensively across the country and with his twin, participates as an auctioneer for various charity events throughout the United States.
Leigh and his brother Leslie recently received The 2005 National Humanities Medal from President George Bush. The Ceremony and Medal were presented on November 10, 2005.
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