by The Trust | Aug 11, 2017
Scotland: A Legacy of Cultural Achievement After two years of planning, the Decorative Arts Trust launched our most ambitious Study Trip Abroad to date. All told nearly eighty members filled three back-to-back excursions to Scotland, a tour appropriately titled “A...
by The Trust | Jun 1, 2017
Savannah: More than Meets the Eye Founded in 1733 by British general and social reformer James Oglethorpe, the city of Savannah has remained an important center of commerce and culture ever since. Although it has long outgrown the original boundaries of Oglethorpe’s...
by The Trust | Nov 10, 2016
Winchester: Exploring Virginia’s Northern Valleys Located in the Shenandoah Valley, and a short distance from the Potomac River Valley, Winchester and the surrounding counties of Virginia occupied a unique place in colonial America and the early republic. Surveyed by...
by The Trust | Nov 9, 2016
Summer Research Report: Sarah Mills This past summer, the Trust was fortunate enough to award two Marie Zimmermann Summer Research Grants for the study of 20th-century American craftspeople and their handiwork. Sarah Mills, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center...
by The Trust | Oct 5, 2016
A Chippendale Pilgrimage in Yorkshire “Star-studded” is not usually a term we would use to describe a Trust Study Trip Abroad, but this fall’s much-anticipated trip to Yorkshire certainly fit the bill.* For the adherents to our field, figures such as tour...
by The Trust | Aug 29, 2016
Happy Retreat: a Washington Family Home “Historic home” is a catch-all term that often fails to adequately describe the complex life and development of a dwelling. As properties change hands, new owners modify the structures and sites to better suit their own needs or...
by The Trust | Aug 19, 2016
Nostell Priory in the Age of Chippendale Although the Trust’s Fall 2016 Study Trip Abroad is subtitled “Yorkshire in the Age of Chippendale,” the 18th century was just as much the age of Adam, Paine, and Brown, all designers and craftsmen whose collaboration—and...
by The Trust | Aug 2, 2016
The church of Saint Jacob the Apostle: a hidden gem in Małujowice Of the many sites the Trust visited in Poland this past spring, one of the most intriguing and mysterious was the Church of Saint Jacob the Apostle. This wonder of a church is (rather incongruously)...
