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Greetings,
Welcome
to House of
Style, the quarterly
e-newsletter from the Winterthur Licensed Products
Program, featuring the people, products, and news
of Winterthur's
licensed products.
To
learn more about the exciting events
happening at Winterthur, visit
winterthur.org |
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Projects
Garden
Restoration at Winterthur
Winterthur
Licensees, Heritage
Metalworks of Downingtown,
PA,
and A. Thayer
Smith of Downingtown, PA,
have
been commissioned by Winterthur's garden
department to help recreate the feel of an
historic garden at Winterthur by restoring or
reproducing some of the statuary, cisterns,
furniture, and metalwork that are either in
disrepair or no longer exist. Their
reproduction Sundial (shown above) was featured
in the November 2008 issue of
Town &
Country.
In
March, sales representatives from Shofer's
Furniture of Baltimore visited Winterthur to learn more
about the original objects that inspire Kindel
Furniture Company's Winterthur
line. Their visit included H.
F. du Pont's House of Style
lecture, tours through the
mansion, lunch on the property, and special
viewings of the Kindel product
orignals. Contact Licensed Products to set up
your own Sales Training events.
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Products
 Fox Chapel
Publishing
Written
by Brent Hull and Christine Franck, Traditional American
Rooms is a guided tour
through the period rooms of Winterthur. The
stunning sourcebook explores 33
of Winterthur's
finest rooms from the Georgian and Federal
periods, using a blend of beautiful color
photography, history, and technical
drawings.
On
March 16 QVC aired a Winterthur Quilts special
showcasing the latest
Winterthur-inspired designs. Director of
Licensed Products, Kristin DeMesse, co-hosted the
special, representing Winterthur and
answering questions about the quilts and the
museum.
 Heritage
Metalworks
Heritage
Metalworks' reproductions of the Cottage
Chandelier can be seen on display in the design
source's original spot at Winterthur.
You can also see Heritage's reproductions of
the beautiful single and double tier
chandeliers that hang over the du Pont Dining Room
Porch at Winterthur.
Chelsea
House has reintroduced the Four Seasons
Prints! Adapted from paintings on glass
done in China circa
1789 for the Western market, the detailed prints
wonderfully capture the painterly quality of the
originals on display in the Period Rooms at
Winterthur.
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Press
Fox
Chapel Publishing Company is featured in
Publishers Weekly
Winterthur is now on Facebook!
Visit Facebook and access the Winterthur
Museum & Country Estate page by using their
search engine. Share the news with all your
friends and fans and help us to spread the word
about Winterthur! |
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Partners
Winterthur
Welcomes Two New Licensees
A. Thayer
Smith
A.
Thayer Smith is licensed to provide ornamental
plaster, garden statuary, and exterior
accessories. See his reproduction garden
objects in the Winterthur
Garden.
Interior
Concepts of Delaware
The
design firm, Interior Concepts of Delaware, will
be offering Winterthur Window Treatments based on
the designs found in the museum, the image
archives, and the library resources.
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People
Winterthur
Licensed Products is pleased to announce that
Jeff
Groff has
accepted the position of Prototype Review
Committee Chairman. 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.
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Proceeds
from the sale of licensed products benefit
educational programming at Winterthur. |
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Sincerely,
Kristin
DeMesse
Director, Licensed
Products
302.888.4861
kdemesse@winterthur.org
Susan
Mathews
Licensed Products
Assistant
302.888.4748
smathews@winterthur.org
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