NEW YORK CITY — C’est chic! Cutting-edge collecting trends are on sumptuous display at the French flavored Salon of Art + Design at New York’s Park Avenue Armory through November 16. The gala preview benefitting Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club got underway on Thursday evening, November 12, drawing a crowd of noted collectors and celebrity designers for the impeccable presentation emphasizing proto-modern, modern and contemporary décor with a smattering of earlier material. “The rules have been thrown out,” notes the show’s executive director, Jill Bokor. “There is no one style of putting fine pieces together.”