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Chic It Up! CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Friday, June 1
Memories of the Montmorenci Staircase
Overview of the Use of Antiques in Interiors
"Simplicity de rigeur": When the Old Became New Again
By Invitation Only, Entertaining at Winterthur, 1931-1969
In Themselves a Textile Museum: Decorating with Textiles 1923-1969
Designing for du Pont: The Style and Legacy of Decorator Henry Davis Sleeper
From Winterthur to the White House:
The Winterthur Period Rooms Saturday, June 2
Vernacular Inspiration: The Brandywine Aesthetic
Color, Arrangement & Texture; or Inspirations at Winterthur
Splendor By the Sea
An American House Laboratory: H.F. du Pont’s Chestertown House, Southampton, Long Island
Lunch (provided)
Ruth Lord Holmes, the younger daughter of Henry F. du Pont, spent much of her childhood at Winterthur. She is a research affiliate of the Child Study Center, Yale University, and a co-author of When Home Is No Haven: A Casebook of Child Placement Issues, published by Yale University Press. In 1999, she published a memoir about her father, Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter's Portrait, based on her personal experience and the extraordinary family archives.
Jared Goss, Associate Curator in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for over twelve years. Specializing in design and architecture, he has helped organize exhibitions including Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1996), Cartier: 1900-1939 (1997) and American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age (2000). In 1998, he curated the Metropolitan’s exhibition, Jean Dunand: Master of Art Deco. In 2004, his exhibition Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco drew over 150,000 visitors and was awarded the International Association of Art Critics, U.S. Chapter: Best Museum Exhibition, Architecture and Design, 2004. His current exhibition, Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí, co-curated with Magdalena Dabrowski, is on view at The Metropolitan Museum from March 7 until June 3, 2007.
Philip Aldrich Hayden is the Senior Historian and Senior Architectural Historian at Richard Grubb and Associates, a cultural resource firm based in Cranbury, New Jersey. A graduate of the Winterthur Program, Hayden has spent the past twenty years working for various museum and preservation groups, including the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the Historical Society of Princeton, the New Jersey Historical Society, and the New Jersey State House. Hayden's exhaustive research on Henry Sleeper extends back equally far and is the subject of a biography now in preparation. In his spare time, he works as an audio describer for vision-impaired audiences at a regional theater in Princeton, NJ.
John Milner, FAIA, is an architect practicing in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. His firm, John Milner Architects, Inc. specializes in the restoration of historic buildings and the design of new residences inspired by American and European architectural traditions. He has a particular passion for the eighteenth century vernacular buildings of the Brandywine Valley. Complementing John Milner's professional practice is his commitment to the education of young architects and historic preservationists. For the past thirty years he has served as Adjunct Professor of Architecture in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation. Mr. Milner is also a principal of Milner & Carr Conservation, LLC a firm devoted to the documentation, analysis, condition diagnosis and treatment of historic sites and monuments.
Call 800.448.3883 to register by phone Conference fee
Conference fee includes
Lodging
A block of rooms has been reserved at the following hotels.
Brandywine River Hotel
Wilmington Brandywine Courtyard
Homewood Suites by Hilton
Inn at Wilmington
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DoubleTree Hotel ~ Wilmington
The Harlan Log House
Hedgerow Bed & Breakfast Suites
The Inn at Montchanin Village
Pennsbury Inn Bed & Breakfast
Sweetwater Farm Bed & Breakfast
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Contact Us - Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, DE 19735
©2009 Winterthur Museum & Country Estate - Privacy Policy - Photo Credits |
Jeff Groff is Director of Public Programs at Winterthur. For sixteen years he was Executive Director of Wyck, an Historic House and Garden in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. A graduate of Bates College, he holds an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in Early America of the University of Delaware. For thirty years he has studied, written, and lectured on the country places of Philadelphia's "Main Line" and surrounding areas, with an emphasis on country life and colonial revival design.
Maggie Lidz has a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.A. from the University of Delaware in Art History. Maggie began working at Winterthur in 2001 and is now Winterthur's Estate Historian. Work experience prior to Winterthur includes Art & Antiques Magazine, Time Inc., and Point of View Productions as an editor, researcher, and production assistant, respectively. Subsequently she worked as a researcher at the Philadelphia Historical Commission and then at L.C.A. Associates, on an interior restoration project of Philadelphia's City Hall. Maggie's work on the exhibition, "Life at Winterthur" stands out, as does her co-authorship of Life at Winterthur: A du Pont Family Album. Maggie has published on quilts and stenciling, as well as on Winterthur's history and H.F. du Pont.
Linda Eaton is the Curator of Textiles at Winterthur. Linda received her degree in Textile Conservation at the Textile Conservation Centre (Hampton Court Palace in conjunction with the Courtauld Institute of Art). She first joined Winterthur in 1991 as a Textile Conservator and part-time Associate Professor for the Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware, and after eight years made the switch to curatorial work. Ms. Eaton has published many articles in professional journals and conference proceedings and has curated numerous exhibitions at Winterthur including "Deceit Deception & Discovery" in 1997, "This Work in Hand: Studying Philadelphia Needlework from the 18th Century," and "Needles and Haystacks: Pastoral Images in American Needlework." Her latest research interests have resulted in the exhibition, "Quilts in a Material World," along with the accompanying book.
Elaine Rice Bachmann is the Curator of the Maryland Commission on Artistic Property of the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis. The Commission is responsible for the preservation and interpretation of the state-owned collection of fine and decorative arts. In this role Elaine advises on the decoration of Maryland's governor's residence and historic State House. She is the co-author of Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration (John Wiley & Sons, 1997) and has authored numerous articles on antiques and interiors including a weekly column in the Wilmington News Journal. She received her B.A. from Indiana University and is a 1993 graduate of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware.
J. Thomas Savage currently serves as Director of Museum Affairs at Winterthur with oversight of the museum's curatorial, marketing, education, and visitor services departments. Before coming to Winterthur, Tom was Senior Vice President and Division Head for educational studies at Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, New York. Prior to Sotheby's he was the Curator and Director of Museums for the Historic Charleston Foundation in Charleston, South Carolina. Tom received his master's degree in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and has authored numerous articles in publications such as The Charleston Interior, American Furniture (1997), Southern Furniture 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection, and In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740-1860.
Thomas Jayne is trained in Architecture and Art History. He holds a Master's degree from the Winterthur program and a Bachelor of Arts from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon. He has worked for Parish-Hadley and Associates, Kevin McNamara, Inc., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Commissions at Thomas Jayne Studio range in style and scope. Recent work includes a Fifth Avenue apartment, the restoration of a plantation in Virginia, a cottage in Maine, and a house in Northern California. Thomas Jayne Studio is regularly published. Most recently, projects appeared in Town & Country, House & Gardens, House Beautiful, and the New York Times. This fall, he was once again named one of the top one hundred designers by House Beautiful.
Anne Surchin, AIA is principal in the Southold, New York firm of Anne Surchin Architect. A graduate of Kirkland College (B.A. Visual Arts) and Syracuse University (B. Arch), Ms. Surchin has been practicing architecture in the Hamptons for 25 years. She has written about architecture and the design arts for numerous publications and is currently the architecture critic for the Southampton Press. Additionally, she has served both on the Landmarks and Historic Districts Board of Southampton Town and as the chairperson of the Preservation Committee for the Peconic Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Her forthcoming book, Houses of the Hamptons 1880-1930, co-authored with Gary Lawrance, will be published by the Acanthus Press (May 2007). (Photo courtesy C. Bennett Grubb)
Gary Lawrance, AIA is principal of Lawrance Architectural Presentations, which provides architectural models, design presentations, and design development services to architects, landscape architects and interior designers; He lives in Stony Brook, New York.
Gilbert Schafer III is the principal of G. P. Schafer Architect, PLLC, a New York City-based architecture firm specializing in classical and traditional residential design, with a particular emphasis on quality, craftsmanship, rigorous detail, comfort and livability, and the integration of landscape and interior decoration in each of their projects. The firm’s work is widely published both here in the U. S. and abroad and has been the recipient of two Palladio Awards for excellence in traditional residential design—in 2002 for a new Greek Revival house in Upstate New York and again in 2004 for the renovation of a Greenwich Village apartment in New York City. The firm’s work has also been featured on the TV program “This Old House” and in the popular book, Creating the New Old House, published in 2003. The firm’s current projects vary in scale and scope from potting sheds to large scale estate projects and are found in a variety of locations up and down the eastern seaboard from Connecticut and Upstate New York to Charleston, South Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee.
Joshua Ruff is History Curator at The Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, in Stony Brook, New York; he also teaches history at St. Joseph's College, in Patchogue, New York. He holds a Master's degree in History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His exhibitions and publications have covered a wide range of topics, including one about the history of Long Island sports that won an award from the American Association of State and Local History. In 2001, Mr. Ruff and William Ayres co-authored a history of H. F. du Pont's Chestertown House, in The Magazine Antiques, a product of his Winterthur Research Fellowship.
