The Decorative Arts Trust

Portugal: The Edge of the Old World

Study Trip Abroad
March 2–11 and 16–25, 2024

OPTIONAL EXTENSION TO THE AZORES
March 11–15, 2024

France in the Footsteps of Jefferson

Study Trip Abroad
September 9–17 and 20–28, 2023

Detroit and Cranbrook

Sojourn
July 26–30, 2023

Commeraw Virtual Tour

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The Decorative Arts Trust is a non-profit membership organization that promotes and fosters the appreciation and study of the decorative arts through programs, partnerships, and grants and scholarships.

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GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Prize for Excellence and Innovation

Apply by June 30

Helen Scott Reed Study Trip Abroad Scholarships

Apply by June 30 for France

IDEAL Internship Grants

Apply by August 31

Events in the Field Online Calendar

Find in-person and virtual lectures, conferences, symposia, and panel discussions from around the globe on the Decorative Arts Trust’s Events in the Field calendar.

FROM THE MAGAZINE

Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory in Bavaria

Scandinavian Design Exhibition

Thomas W. Commeraw Exhibition

FEATURED VIDEO

Luxury Scissors in the Early Modern World

During our 7th Annual Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York, Claire E. Sabitt, a PhD student in Art History at Princeton University, presented this lecture about scissors as a luxury item in early modern Europe.

IN THE BULLETIN

New Book on Women in Design

A Peculiar Miniature Desk at Winterthur

Conserving a Print of Bush Hill

ON INSTAGRAM

May 30

Join us in Portugal! In March 2024, the Trust ventures to the Iberian Peninsula, traveling between the great port cities of Porto and Lisbon to explore the artistic fruits of the small nation’s impressive global reach. With colonies in Asia and South America, Portugal garnered significant economic growth resulting in one of the longest lasting European empires, readily seen in its present-day architectural and artistic legacies. This Study Trip Abroad combines bespoke visits to key historic sites and museums with privileged access to private houses, while also featuring the splendid cuisine and viniculture expected of a country that blends land and sea. An optional extension takes us to the breathtaking volcanic archipelago of the Azores where European sophistication meets nature in its purest state.

See the link in bio to learn more and register for Portugal: The Edge of the Old World on March 2–11 or 16–25, 2024, and the optional extension to the Azores on March 11–15. Decorative Arts Trust programs sell out quickly. Register today!

Pictured: Palácio de Queluz, Palácio dos Marqueses de Fronteira, Bom Jesus, Museu do Tesouro Real, Palácio de Monserrate, Ponte de Lima, Igreja de São Francisco, Monastery de San Jeronimos, Guimarães, Coimbra.

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May 23

As we enjoy the final days of the first tour of our East Anglia trip, we revel in the beauty of the Ickworth Estate, under the care of the @NationalTrust. Ickworth House is located outside the Suffolk market town of Bury St. Edmonds, which grew wealthy on the Medieval wool trade. This 18th-century country house is set in a large park and features an iconic rotunda with a domed roof flanked by two wings. Work began in 1795 to the designs of the Italian architect Mario Asprucci the Younger, but construction halted after the 4th Earl’s death in 1803. His ambitious plans were finally realized in 1826 by his son, elevated 1st Marquess of Bristol. The collection illustrates the accumulation of several generations of Herveys, who owned the estate since the mid-15th century. The largest room in the house is the hemispherical library across the south front. We were honored to enjoy a silver study session with James Rothwell, the National Trust's Senior Curator and Silver Adviser.

Find more scenes from our East Anglia Study Trip Abroad in our stories and in the East Anglia Instagram story highlight!

Read more about Study Trips Abroad at https://decorativeartstrust.org/study-trips-abroad/.

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May 17

Tour 1 of our East Anglia Study Trip Abroad is underway! One highlight has been Wimpole Hall, under the care of the @NationalTrust, which features a broad central block clad in red brick and stone with a double staircase leading up to an entrance on the south front. This largely 18th-century façade was added to the original 17th-century structure by Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, who entertained an impressive circle of writers, scholars, and artists here. Lord Harley also commissioned James Gibbs to build a Baroque chapel, almost Bavarian in its opulence, which is now the house’s principal feature. James Thornhill’s decoration features saints amidst a Classical setting alongside a rendering of the Adoration of the Magi. Gibbs also designed the long library to house Harley’s exceptional collection of books and manuscripts, which later formed the nucleus of the British Library. The library is reached through a gallery by Henry Flitcroft that was added by the subsequent owner, Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, to house his finest paintings. John Soane was the next architect to lay hands on Wimpole, producing the Yellow Drawing Room in the 1790s, which opens out into a domed oval, lit from a lantern in the roof above. Rudyard Kipling’s daughter, Elsie, and her husband, George Bambridge, acquired the largely empty house in the 1930s, and she invested royalties from her father’s estate into gathering an appropriate collection to furnish the grand house.

Enjoy more photos from our East Anglia Study Trip Abroad in our stories and in the East Anglia Instagram story highlight!

Learn more about upcoming Study Trips Abroad at https://decorativeartstrust.org/study-trips-abroad/.

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May 15

As the Decorative Arts Trust celebrates our 46th anniversary, we also celebrate the opportunity to award our fourth Prize for Excellence and Innovation in a few months! June 30 is the nomination deadline for this $100,000 Prize for outstanding projects that advance the public’s appreciation of decorative art, fine art, architecture, or landscape.

See the link in bio to learn more. Please share!

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@CooperHewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum was the 2022 Prize recipient, for their upcoming exhibition 𝘈 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬, 𝘈 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘈 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘴. This image shows Dorothy Liebes’s New York City studio c. 1957 (Dorothy Liebes Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.).
@BlackCraftspeopleDA received the 2021 Prize. BCDA's Torren Gatson and Tiffany Momon are pictured here with Decorative Arts Trust Director Matthew Thurlow.
@CraftInAmerica was awarded the inaugural Prize in 2020 for their Craft Video Dictionary. The image here is from Martin Guitars.

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May 12

Get a sneak peak of the Center for Painted Wall Preservation's Virtual Museum of Painted Walls!

See https://www.pwpcenter.org/virtual-museum to view a 3D model of the Hersey-Whitten House. This house was built in Center Tuftonboro, NH, for the Copp family in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The family most likely commissioned the decorative paintwork found in the entry/stair hall and the front parlor between 1826 and 1840. The murals are not signed but bear motifs associated with the John Avery family.

The Center for Painted Wall Preservation received a Dean F. Failey Grant from the Decorative Arts Trust to develop their virtual museum. We look forward to seeing more interactive models online soon!

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May 10

In 1938, @TheMuseumOfModernArt took its first international exhibition to the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris. 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 featured over 750 artworks, spanning architecture, film, folk art, painting, prints, and sculpture, and was the most comprehensive display of American art to date in Europe. In her new book, 𝘔𝘰𝘔𝘈 𝘎𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 1938: 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵, Caroline M. Riley explains how this exhibition was a vital contributor to the internationalization of American art.

See the link in bio to read more in our 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯.

Pictured: Marguerite Zorach, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘴, 1929. Wool embroidery on linen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 196, 64.101.1404.

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May 4

Postcards from the early 20th century show how the once-wild landscape of Bar Harbor—ever so alluring to mid-19th-century artists like Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, and Fitz Henry Lane—changed significantly because of home building for summer residents. Yet, one characteristic remains prevalent in all of these representations of landscape: the connection between people, houses, space, and views.

In the 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯 post linked in our bio, Astrid Tvetenstrand shares her research findings at the Portland Museum of Art and the Maine Historical Society for her dissertation preparation in Boston University’s American & New England Studies program.

Pictured: “Malvern Cottage, Kebo Street, Bar Harbor, Maine,” c. 1910, postcard. Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME. Photo by author.

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May 1

Our Post-Symposium Optional Tour in Salem, NJ, was a walk through distinctive brick architecture and interiors with stunning historic details.

One of the highlights of our tour was Holmeland, the residence of Barbara and Brian Duffy. The mansion house was built in 1750 by Benjamin Holme, who served as Colonel of the South Jersey Militia during the American Revolution. A British raid on March 24, 1778, set fire to the house after removing valuable furnishings, including the magnificent Wagstaff “Holme Clock,” which now stands in the Salem County Historical Society. The dining room’s plaster ceiling contains a purpose-built niche to accommodate the 100-inch height of the clock. Although the house was damaged in the raid, the brick walls remained standing, and the affected portions were rebuilt. A larger addition dates to 1784, a date that remains painted on the second-story rain spout.

See our stories and "Philadelphia" Instagram story highlight for more photos!

Thank you for joining us on our Philadelphia adventure! Learn about our spring and fall symposia at https://decorativeartstrust.org/symposia/. Rhode Island registration will open soon!

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Apr 30

Our Philadelphia Symposium concluded this morning, and we journeyed outside of the city to two Post-Symposium Optional Tours: one in Rose Valley, PA, and one in Salem, NJ.

The land that constitutes Rose Valley was included in William Penn's land grant to brothers Thomas, Robert, and Randal Vernon. In 1901, Philadelphia architect William Lightfoot Price bought 80 acres of land around a former textile mill and founded Rose Valley as a utopian Arts and Crafts community. We enjoyed expert-led tours at Thunderbird Lodge, now home to the Rose Valley Museum. Thunderbird Lodge dates to 1904, when Price converted a c. 1790 barn into studios for artists Charles Stephens and Alice Barber Stephens. The collection includes pieces from Esherick, Jervis, Mercer, and Yellin, as well as many artisans from Rose Valley Shops.

See our stories and "Philadelphia" Instagram story highlight for more photos!

Learn about our spring and fall symposia at https://decorativeartstrust.org/symposia/. Rhode Island registration will open soon!

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Apr 30

Meet Laini Farrare, one of the Dewey Lee Curtis Symposium scholarship recipients at our Philadelphia program!

Laini is an MA student in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. Her thesis focuses on extant Long Island windmills from the 18th and 19th centuries built by the Dominy family of artisans and their connection to enslaved and free African American craftsmanship.

Laini is pictured here in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Robert L. McNeil Jr. Galleries which are dedicated to American Art between 1650 and 1850. This "wall of chairs" features exquisite examples from examples from Philadelphia, Bermuda, Campeche, and Brazil. Members enjoyed curator-led tours of the galleries, as well as the PMA's European galleries. Thank you Alexandra Kirtley, David Barquist, Alisa Chiles, and Colin Fanning!

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of the country’s oldest art museums with its origins dating to the Centennial Exposition of 1876. The PMA’s collections now include more than 240,000 objects spanning 2,000 years of history.

See our stories and "Philadelphia" Instagram story highlight for more photos!

Learn about our spring and fall symposia at https://decorativeartstrust.org/symposia/. Rhode Island registration will open soon!

Read more about our Emerging Scholars program at https://decorativeartstrust.org/grants-and-scholarships/. The Decorative Arts Trust is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is passionate about providing opportunities for the next generation of leaders in our field!

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Apr 29

Allow us to introduce you to Cambra Sklarz, a Dewey Lee Curtis Symposium scholarship recipient at our Philadelphia program!

Cambra is a PhD student at the University of California, Riverside, and is the Barra Material Culture Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation focuses on strategies for the use and reuse of materials in early America.

Cambra is pictured here at Philadelphia's Independence Hall. The Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were both debated and signed in Independence Hall, a Georgian building overseen by Speaker of the Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly Andrew Hamilton and designed by builder Edmund Woolley. When construction began in 1732, the Hall was designed to be the Pennsylvania State House. Carver Samuel Harding created much of the ornamentation in the central hall, and some of that original woodwork still survives. Chief Curator Karie Diethorn and Museum Curator Debbie Miller shared an object study and discussed the building’s architectural history.

See our stories and "Philadelphia" Instagram story highlight for more photos!

Learn about our spring and fall symposia at https://decorativeartstrust.org/symposia/. Rhode Island registration will open soon!

Read more about our Emerging Scholars program at https://decorativeartstrust.org/grants-and-scholarships/. The Decorative Arts Trust is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is passionate about providing opportunities for the next generation of leaders in our field!

See more of Cambra's research in our 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯 at https://decorativeartstrust.org/winterthur-paper-post/.

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Apr 28

Our second day of Pre-Symposium Tours featured a second visit to the Main Line and an exploration of the Germantown area of Philadelphia. Located six miles northwest of downtown Philadelphia, Germantown stretches for about two miles along Germantown Avenue, the main thoroughfare connecting the community to Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill. Germantown was originally part of a 5,700-acre parcel that William Penn sold to two groups from the Rhine region, forming German Township.

Hans Millan (also spelled Milan), a Quaker who came from Germany by 1689, built the first residence on the land now occupied by Wyck. The house encountered today appears cohesive but is an accumulation of parts: the Hall (1700–20), the Front Parlor (1736), and the Library and Dining Room (1771–73, which replaced Millan’s c. 1690 log structure). The latter were added by Catherine and Caspar Wistar of the wealthy New Jersey glassmaking family, and these disparate elements were synthesized into a coherent-yet-compact whole by Philadelphia architect William Strickland in 1824 for Jane Bowne and Reuben Haines III. Reuben’s parents selected the name based on an English country house owned by an unrelated Haines family. The house has been little altered since Strickland’s renovation, which included a set of folding doors that swing on a 90 degree angle, allowing the owners to change the room configuration with only one door. The impressive collection includes more than 10,000 decorative and fine arts, including a chair in which Lafayette sat.

The Symposium officially began tonight, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. See our stories and "Philadelphia" Instagram story highlight for more photos!

Learn about our spring and fall symposia at https://decorativeartstrust.org/symposia/. Rhode Island registration will open soon!

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Apr 27

We explored Classical Philadelphia in a Pre-Symposium Tour today, including the gorgeous Andalusia.

Originally the home of Philadelphia merchant John Craig, the house was built in 1797–98 and named for the region of southern Spain in which his business was focused. As Craig’s wealth increased, he approached renowned architect B. Henry Latrobe to improve and expand the house. Although Craig died before this renovation was complete, his daughter Jane brought the house to her marriage with Nicholas Biddle, who came from a family with 17th-century roots in the Delaware River Valley. Biddle engaged architect Thomas U. Walter, whose plan enveloped the original house and Latrobe expansion with the addition of two front parlors overlooking the river and corresponding chambers above. Featuring handsome plaster ceiling medallions, cornices, pilasters, mantles, and French chandeliers, these rooms rank among the most elegant Classical interiors of 1830s America. Walter was also responsible for other buildings on the grounds, including a picturesque Gothic ruin, a Gothic cottage, and the expanded billiard house, thereby creating a European-style country estate assemblage to accompany Biddle’s agricultural operations. Andalusia's current collection represents the combined contents of the Biddles' city and country houses as well as the subsequent generations who lived here.

See our stories and "Philadelphia" Instagram story highlight for more photos!

Learn about our spring and fall symposia at https://decorativeartstrust.org/symposia/. Rhode Island registration will open soon!

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Apr 26

The Decorative Arts Trust's Pre-Symposium Tours have begun, so take a sneak peek of our tour of the Main Line in the Philadelphia suburbs!

Named after the Pennsylvania Railroad’s main line, this historic haven was home to Philadelphia’s 19th- and 20th-century elite. Our itinerary includes Chanticleer, the summer retreat for Adolph G. Rosengarten, Sr., and his wife, Christine Penrose.

Designed by architect Charles L. Borie, this Pastoral Style manor was initially situated on six acres, with terraces designed by landscape architect Thomas Sears, and an accompanying pool, tea house, and sunken garden added by Willing and Sims. The house’s name borrows from the 1855 novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴, but chanticleer is synonymous with “rooster,” a motif Rosengarten incorporated throughout the house and grounds, including atop the entry drive pillars. Open to the public since 1993, Chanticleer is a 35-acre “pleasure garden” that Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. established as a Foundation for education and enjoyment before his passing in 1990. He had significantly reimagined the property as an English manor garden, inspired by his World War II placement in London’s Bletchley Park. Today, the site is a colorful and whimsical mile of meandering trails through orchards, perennial blooms, and wildflower meadows.

See our stories and "Philadelphia" Instagram story highlight for more photos!

Learn about our spring and fall symposia at https://decorativeartstrust.org/symposia/. Rhode Island registration will open soon!

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Apr 24

How does a sideboard go from Richmond, VA’s Wickham House to Hanover, VA’s Hickory Hill to Huntsville, AL, and back to Wickham House? Christina Keyser Vida from the Valentine Museum shares the story of how a connection with savvy and generous Decorative Arts Trust members brought this stunning object home. See the link in bio to read the post in the 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯.

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Apr 11

“When we sit at our loom, we sit at the universe,” fifth-generation Diné (Navajo) master weaver Lynda Teller Pete shares. She is one of the artists featured in 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘮: 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘵 at the @BardGradCenter Gallery, an exhibition that explores the materials, processes, traditions, and cosmologies that nurture Navajo weaving.

See the link in bio to read more about the show in a new 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯 post from Juliana Fagua Arias.

Pictured: This Navajo dye chart by Roselyn Washburn (Diné) connects each colored yarn to a sample of the dried plant used to make its dye.

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Apr 7

April 30 is the deadline to apply for Research Grants from the Decorative Arts Trust! The Trust awards grants ranging from $500-$1,000 to graduate students working on a Master’s thesis or PhD dissertation in a field related to the decorative arts. Learn more at https://decorativeartstrust.org/grants-and-scholarships/research-grants/. (Link in bio.)

Please share!

Pictured: Lauryn Smith received a Research Grant to study objects at the @PeabodyEssex Museum. Read more about Lauryn's research on the collection of Amalia van Solms-Braunfels in this article from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵: https://decorativeartstrust.org/amalia-van-solms-braunfels-article/.

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Apr 5

Thank you for joining us on our Sicilian adventures! Tour 2's final day included a visit to Villa Malfitano in Palermo. The villa was built in the 1880s for the Whitaker family of English wine merchants by the architect Ignazio Greco using influences ranging from Neo-Renaissance to Eclecticism. The state rooms were frescoed with a rich floral trompe-l’oeil decoration by Ettore De Maria Bergler. A set of the 16th-century Flemish tapestries tell the story of the journey of Aeneas from 22 Troy to the banks of the Tiber. The collection also features the pair of elephants in cloisonnée enamel from the Imperial Palace of Beijing, an 18th-century harpsichord, and displays of porcelain, fans, coral, and paintings.

Visit our stories and the "Sicily" story highlight to see more photos!

Learn more about Decorative Arts Trust Study Trips Abroad at https://decorativeartstrust.org/study-trips-abroad/.

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