Lynchburg: The Pleasures of Virginia’s Southern Piedmont
REVIEW: SPRING SYMPOSIUM 2013
Massachusetts: Four Centuries of Furniture
Massachusetts: Four Centuries of Furniture EVENTS > SYMPOSIA DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST FALL SYMPOSIUMOctober 17 – 20, 2013 Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture is a collaborative venture of eleven institutions presenting an unprecedented celebration for 2013 of...
Trust Intern at Old Sturbridge Village
EMERGING SCHOLARS > CURATORIAL INTERNSHIP GRANTS By Kate Swisher For the past three months and over the next nine, I have the privilege of working as the 2013–14 Old Sturbridge Village-Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow. This is in large part due to the...
The Lure of Enameled Steel in the Interwar Period
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Dalila Huerta In 1933, the Simmons Company of Chicago, IL exhibited a steel bedroom ensemble at the Century of Progress World’s Fair. The ensemble, originally designed in 1929 by Norman Bel Geddes, featured a...
Tea Sets and Play
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Nina Ranalli Many scholars before me have embarked on studies of tea-drinking in early America; but passion for the material and generous funding from the Decorative Arts Trust allowed me to pursue the topic from a...
Examining the Studies at Reynolda House in Winston-Salem
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Rebecca Migdal Reynolda House is the country home of Katharine Smith Reynolds (1880–1924) and Richard “Dick” Joshua Reynolds (1850–1918), built in 1917. The house and its surrounding farms, gardens, and village were the...
New Jersey-made Furniture: Fact or Fiction?
EMERGING SCHOLARS > SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS By Jackie Killian The title of this article is a question that I asked myself when deciding on a thesis topic last spring. Numerous documented examples of furniture made during the first fifty years of colonial settlement...
