Online Course Session IV – Global Modernism in the First Half of the 20th Century

Online Course From Regency to Modernism: British Furniture and Its Global Reach
5.30pm – 8pm (GMT); 12.30pm – 3pm (EST)
4, 11, 18, & 25 November 2025

Join us on Zoom every Tuesday throughout November when three experts will consider the influence and interpretation of British furniture design abroad from 1800 to the 1970s. Focusing on influential figures such as Augustus Welby Pugin, Thomas Hope, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Daniel Cottier, the course will examine how they carried their aesthetic ideals abroad, as well as how international designers engaged with, adapted, and reinterpreted these creative influences within their own cultural contexts.

SESSION IV – 25 November
Global Modernism in the First Half of the 20th Century
Max Donnelly: Furnishing the Gilded Age: Cottier & Co. in New York
Dr Juliet Kinchin: Glasgow Style Furniture and Interiors in an International Context: The Mackintoshes and Cultural Exchange from Vienna to Moscow
Prof. David Vélez Santamaría & Prof. Miguel Arango Marín: Silla Mariposa (1972-2025): local stories behind a plastic chair

Tickets may be bought for an individual session or for the entire course, but you will benefit from a discount if all four sessions are bought together. If you miss the live session, you will still be able to enjoy the event because each week is recorded and links to the recordings will be sent to ticketholders. These recordings will not be available to buy after the course has ended. FHS members and ECD members will benefit from a discount on all tickets.

DETAILS OF THE IMAGES ON THE BANNER ABOVE (from left to right): Detail of a pier table, attributed to Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), New York (1815-20) © Schrimsher Collection, Huntsville, Alabama. Mariposa chair designed by Óscar Darío Muñoz Giraldo (1973). Public domain. Clothes and umbrella stand designed by Gaspar Homar (c. 1906) © Gaspar Salinas Ramon, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. High backed oak chair designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1897-1900) © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Detail from a design by J-B Bethune, C. Idewalle for a drawing room table ( c. 1875) Album souvenir du baron Bethune, plate XIII, Société Saint-Augustin, Tournai, 1898. Detail from a book Illustration, Schinkel’s königl. preuss. Geheimen Raths und Ober-Baudirectors Möbel-Entwürfe… (The Furniture Designs of Schinkel, Royal Prussian Privy Council and Chief Building Director…), Chair, plate V, 1835-7. Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Public domain.