★ The Palm Beach Show

01Pourquoi c'est important

Palm Beach in February holds one of the densest concentrations of second-home collectors anywhere in the United States, and this show is the fixture that serves them. It is a regional event by design; almost nobody flies from Europe for it, and almost everybody who winters between Jupiter and Boca Raton knows the dates.

Our reading is that it should be understood as part of the Palm Beach season rather than the art calendar. It sits alongside the equestrian season in Wellington, the polo, the benefit season and the boat show, and its function within that week is social as much as commercial.

02La semaine environnante

Mid-February is the busiest fortnight of the Palm Beach season and the show is one of several things happening. Wellington, twenty-five minutes west, is in the middle of the Winter Equestrian Festival and the polo season, both of which draw the same audience, and the benefit season is at its peak on the island. The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach and the Flagler Museum in the Whitehall mansion are the two institutions worth a morning, and the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens are a short walk from the convention center. Worth Avenue and the Royal Poinciana Plaza hold the island's shopping and galleries; Clematis Street, Rosemary Square and Northwood hold most of the mainland's restaurants.

03Quand arriver

Thursday, for the opening evening, is the show's social moment. Friday and Saturday are the busiest trading days and the weekend brings the largest general attendance; Monday and Tuesday are quiet and better for looking and negotiating. The show takes two to three hours; build the rest of the visit around Wellington, the Norton and the island.

04Où séjourner

The island of Palm Beach is the most expensive and most convenient for Worth Avenue and the ocean, with the Breakers and the Colony as the landmark addresses. West Palm Beach, around Rosemary Square and the waterfront, puts the convention center within walking distance and costs a fraction as much. Delray Beach and Boca Raton to the south and Jupiter to the north are quieter and thirty to forty-five minutes away.

05Accès et hospitalité

The show sells tickets for the public days at the convention center and through its own website, and an opening-night preview precedes the run; the organizer publishes the preview arrangements, any beneficiary and current prices each year, and none of those are reproduced here because they were not verified for this record. Multi-day and season passes have been offered in past years. The Norton Museum of Art, the Flagler Museum and the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens charge their own separate admission, and the Norton publishes free-admission hours.

06Où se déroule l'activité sociale

The convention center sits between Rosemary Square and the waterfront in West Palm Beach, so the show's crowd disperses within a few minutes' walk. Clematis Street and Rosemary Square hold the restaurants and bars closest to the hall, and the Flagler Drive waterfront and its Saturday greenmarket are directly east. Across the bridges, Worth Avenue and the Royal Poinciana Plaza carry the island's daytime life and the hotel terraces along South County Road the evening. Everything requires a car.

07Comment s'y rendre

08Informations pratiques

09Historique

The show was founded in the mid-2000s by the Palm Beach Show Group, which runs a set of winter and spring art, antique and jewelry shows in Florida and elsewhere, and reached its twenty-third annual edition in 2026. It grew as Palm Beach's winter population expanded and as the county convention center, opened in 2003 on the West Palm Beach waterfront, gave the region a hall large enough. Its jewelry emphasis has strengthened over time as general antiques markets in the United States contracted.

10Qui s'y trouve

Palm Beach and South Florida winter residents in the greatest numbers, together with East Coast collectors down for the season; estate and period jewelry buyers, who are the show's core audience; interior designers and decorators working on Florida houses; the American antiques and silver trade, a substantial part of whose business here is dealer to dealer; and a general county public across the weekend.