The Frick Collection, New York City, October 27, 2017
The Frick Collection and The Furniture History Society are pleased to present the emerging scholars symposium
FURNITURE AND THE DOMESTIC INTERIOR: 1500-1915
Attendance is free, but registration is required. For more information and registration, please visit our website.
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PROGRAM
10:15 a.m. — Welcome and Introduction
Charlotte Vignon, Curator of Decorative Arts, The Frick Collection
Adriana Turpin, Grants Committee Chair, Furniture History Society
SESSION I — Wolfram Koeppe Presiding, Marina Kellen French Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
10:25 a.m. — “From Private Collection to Public Museum: Second Empire Furniture in the Collection of the Bowes Museum, County Durham”
Simon Spier, PhD candidate, University of Leeds & The Bowes Museum
10:50 a.m. — “Trompe-l’oeil? Early Modern Table Clocks in the Shape of Everyday Objects”, Susanne Thuerigen, PhD candidate, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
11:15 a.m. — Coffee Break in the Garden Court
11:30 a.m. — “The ‘Camerella’: A Bed Inseparable From Its Chamber”, Pasquale Focarile, 2017 Eva Schler Fellow, The Medici Archive Project
11:55 a.m. — “Wood and Plaster ‘Moors’ in Early Modern Venetian Household Inventories 1600–1800″, Hannah Lee, PhD candidate, Queen Mary University of London
12:20 p.m. — Lunch on your own
SESSION II — Charlotte Vignon Presiding
1:30 p.m. — “’The Completest Triumph of Barbarous Taste’: Reevaluating Russian Rococo Furniture 1730–1775″, Philippe Halbert, PhD student, Yale University
1:55 p.m. — “’Moving Art’: Furniture and Mobility in Eighteenth-Century France”, Lilit Sadoyan, PhD candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara
2:20 p.m. — “Making Sense of Carmontelle’s Chairs”, Margot Bernstein, PhD candidate, Columbia University
2:45 p.m. — Closing Remarks, coffee to follow in the Garden Court