ONLINE LEARNING
18th-Century Marine Imagery in the Sèvres Archive
BY ALYSE MULLER
A Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant provided the opportunity to conduct essential research at the Sèvres manufactory archive in Paris. My dissertation reconsiders the marine genre within a variety of mediums to explore the nexus of maritime commerce, political aspirations, iconography, and aesthetics.
Jean and Zohmah Charlot’s House: A Modernist Space Referencing Enduring Cultural Traditions
BY OLIVIA ARMANDROFF
Located in Honolulu’s Kāhala neighborhood, in close proximity to the shoreline, Jean and Zohmah Charlot’s house has a modest footprint and understated design that speak to a different era.
What a Decade It Has Been! A Tribute to Matt Thurlow
BY BROCK JOBE
after ten years at the helm, Decorative Arts Trust Executive Director Matthew Thurlow merits our most heartfelt praise. Matt has guided the Trust through a decade of growth, especially in supporting scholarship, emerging professionals, and graduate students.
Argonaut: Dorothy Liebes and the Brussels Universal Exposition
BY SUSAN BROWN AND ALEXA GRIFFITH WINTON
Dorothy Liebes is featured in a Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum exhibition covering her many accomplishments, including the Argonaut textile for the United States Pavilion at the Brussels Universal Exposition—Expo ’58.
The Material World of the Spanish Colonial Estrado
BY JORGE F. RIVAS PÉREZ
Sometimes a separate room or a sectioned-off portion of a reception room, the estrado was the most important feminine space in elite Spanish homes.
Chronicles of a Global East: Seattle Art Museum Exhibition Examines Silk Roads and Maritime Routes
BY FOONG PING
Chronicles of a Global East, an ongoing exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, narrates a few of the many stories related to the Silk Roads and maritime routes, where innumerable transnational artistic traditions emerged.
Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Porcelain at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
BY WILLIAM KEYSE RUDOLPH
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s ‘Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Soft-Paste Porcelain’ exhibition uses nearly two dozen works from the Museum’s small but high-quality collections of 18th-century French soft-paste porcelain to trace the development of porcelain in France.
Completing the Picture: New Research into Craft, Slavery, and Servitude in Early Lancaster
BY BETHANY MCGLYN
The “Completing the Picture: Slavery and Servitude in Early Lancaster County” initiative seeks to research and reinterpret objects and spaces at Historic Rock Ford and the John J. Snyder Jr. Gallery of Early Lancaster Decorative Arts in order to more fully explore the complex histories of those who made and used them.
Made for Use: The Pottery of C.A. Haun
BY RILEY KATE RICHARDS
Christopher Alexander Haun produced uniquely decorated utilitarian earthenware pottery until his death in 1861 and is currently a semi-canonical figure in the study of Tennessee decorative arts.
Chinese Metalwork and English Restoration Silver in the “Chinese Taste”
BY SUSAN EBERHARD
In the history of English Restoration silver, the “Chinese taste” is understood as a type of Chinoiserie—that is, an idealized imagery of China created by Europeans—in vogue from about 1675 to 1720.