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From The Furniture History Society, with registration at Eventbrite:

The Furniture History Society Early Career Research Symposium
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 24 January 2024

The Furniture History Society is delighted to hold its seventh Early Career Research Symposium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Wednesday, 24th January. The symposium is part of our Early Career Development (ECD) programme and presents current research by emerging scholars in the fields of furniture history, the decorative arts, and historic interiors. The wide range of papers reflects the variety of interests among young scholars with speakers from Britain, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, and the United States. We welcome curators, dealers, academics, members of the Furniture History Society, and anyone interested in the decorative arts and the history of interiors to join us for this symposium to enjoy the fascinating medley of topics, ranging from the 1650s to the 1950s. The event is free, but it is necessary to register here on Eventbrite by midnight Sunday, 21st January to secure a place. This event is neither being recorded nor livestreamed.

The day is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Oliver Ford Trust.

p r o g r a m m e

9.30  Welcome

9.45  Morning Session A
• Cynthia Kok (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) Ebonyworkers in 17th-Century Amsterdam
• Bridget Griffin (The Attingham Trust, London), Crafting Connections: Mapping the Lives and Trade Networks of British and Irish Immigrant Furniture Makers in North-Eastern Port Cities of Early America
• Grace Ford-Dirks (Philadelphia Museum of Art), Exploring the Lives and Meanings of an 18th-Century Caribbean Armoire

11.15  Break

11.45  Morning Session B
• Noah Dubay (Bard Graduate Center, New York), Comfort, Convenience, and Convalescence: How the Fauteuil de Malade Changed 18th-Century France
• Geoffrey Ripart (Bard Graduate Center, New York), The Road from Rome to Paris: Sourcing Rare Marbles at the End of the Ancien Regime and the Rise of French Taste for Objets d’Art Made from Stone, 1760–1810

12.45  Lunch Break

1.45  Afternoon Session A
• Romana Mastrella (University of La Sapienza, Rome), Collecting Fireplaces
• Justine Gain (École de Louvre, Paris), When the Furniture Matches the Architecture: The Birth of French Eclecticism through the Oeuvre of Jean-Baptiste Plantar (1790–1879)
• Laura Jenkins (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) From Galerie to Ballroom: Gilbert Cuel at 1 West 57th Street

3.15  Break

3.45  Afternoon Session B
• Karolina Kourilova (Masaryk University, Brno), Design behind the Iron Curtain: Furniture Industry Development in Post-War Czechoslovakia
• Melania Andronic (University of La Sapienza, Rome), Rational Furniture: A Chair Is Made for Sitting

4.45  Closing Remarks

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Images: Detail of a fireplace, 1785, by Luigi Valadier in the Sala della Flora on the first floor of the Villa Borghese in Rome. Detail of a cabinet attributed to Herman Doomer, Amsterdam ca. 1640–50 (New York: The Met). Detail of a drawing by Jean-Baptiste Plantar in the Album d’une centaine de dessins d’architecture, Paris, ca. 1855 (held online by the Institut national d’histoire de l’art). Detail of the Galerie dorée at the Hôtel de Toulouse (now Banque de France), decorated by Robert de Cotte and Francois-Antoine Vasse, 1713–17 (photo by Guilhem Vellut).