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EVENTS CALENDAR
The Victorian Society New York
2012 Lecture
Series
THE CHAIR AS SCULPTURE
Tuesday, February 14 6:00 PM
Andrew VanStyn, designer and co-creator of The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Chair Design - a traveling exhibition featuring 40 chairs, including a painted 1810 side chair and an opulently fringed and tasseled Victorian Hunzinger seat - will share his insights on finding and collecting great seating as well as its conservation and upholstery. VanStyn studied architecture at Cornell University and is a collections consultant focusing on the period 1860 to 1920.
LOCATION: The New York New Church (Swedenborgian), 114 East 35th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues), New York, NY 10016
ADMISSION: FREE; no reservations required. For VSNY members only: meet the speakers at our post-lecture receptions.
Covered Vase, circa 1887
AESTHETIC AMBITIONS: EDWARD LYCETT AND BROOKLYN'S FAIENCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Tuesday, March 13, 6:00 PM
Barbara Veith, guest curator of the exhibition that comes to the Brooklyn Museum in May, will explore the Faience Manufacturing Company (1881-1890). This leading Brooklyn-based art pottery earned praise for its bold and eclectic Aesthetic Movement wares, which synthesized Chinese, Near Eastern and Japanese influences. It owed its artistic and commercial success to Edward Lycett, a British china painter who became its artistic director. Veith teaches in theParsons/Cooper-Hewitt's MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design and has worked as a research associate in the Met's American Wing.
LOCATION: The New York New Church (Swedenborgian), 114 East 35th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues), New York, NY 10016
ADMISSION: FREE; no reservations required. For VSNY members only: meet the speakers at our post-lecture receptions.
Image: Edward Lycett (American, b. England, 1833 - 1910). Faience Manufacturing Company (1881- 92). Covered Vase, circa 1887. Cream-colored earthenware painted over ivory glazed and luster ground with polychrome enamels and flat gold decoration. Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums, Gift of Emma and Jay Lewis, R2011.01.01
Map of the counties of New York, Queens, Kings, and Richmond.
(1841) courtesy of the NYPL Map Division
QUEENS VICTORIAN
Tuesday, April 10, 6:00 PM
Jack Eichenbaum, historian for Queens County, New York, will discuss the 19th-century transformation of the borough from an agricultural landscape to a commuter suburb with a diversified economy including horticulture, piano manufacturing and heavy industry. Dr. Eichenbaum is a professor of urban geography at Hunter College and an assessor for the NYC Department of Finance who leads geographically oriented historical tours of Queens.
LOCATION: The New York New Church (Swedenborgian), 114 East 35th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues), New York, NY 10016
ADMISSION: FREE; no reservations required. For VSNY members only: meet the speakers at our post-lecture receptions.
St. Frances de Sales
THE DESIGN AND CREATION OF AMERICAN STAINED GLASS WINDOWS CIRCA 1900
Tuesday, May 8, 6:00 PM
Donald Samick, owner and president of J&R Lamb Studios, will discuss specialized techniques, such as opalescent and drapery glass, used by three major American stained glass studios at the end of the 19th century. Established in 1857, Lamb Studios, which Samick took over in 1970, is the oldest continuously operating stained glass studio in the United States.
LOCATION: The New York New Church (Swedenborgian), 114 East 35th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues), New York, NY 10016
ADMISSION: FREE; no reservations required. For VSNY members only: meet the speakers at our post-lecture receptions.
TOURS
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GRACIE MANSION
Saturday, March 31, 11:00 AM
Cost: free (fully booked)
Curator Diane Toole will lead a private tour of Gracie Mansion, a NYC landmark and the official Mayor's residence. The tour will focus on life in 19th-century New York, when the mansion was the home of the Wheaton family.
Further
information on any of the programs may be obtained by calling (212)
886-3742.
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