| PLEASE POST AND SHARE WITH COLLEAGUES Savings of $120 for Students, Teachers, & Museum Professionals New Low Registration Rate Announced for Georgian Forum Historic Deerfield will offer a discounted registration fee of just $285 to all students, teachers, and museum professionals who wish to attend the upcoming two-day forum "Balance and Beauty: Georgian Design in Early America," taking place November 12-13. Attendees will gain access six lectures -- including a keynote address by Dr. Adam Bowett, Independent Furniture Scholar and author of the acclaimed book Early Georgian Furniture, 1715-1740 (2009). Registration also includes two receptions, one lunch, and one dinner. Workshops are available on Friday, November 11, for just $40 each. Click here to download an information and registration form. ![Balance & Beauty cover]() "This is a special opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field," said Philip Zea, President of Historic Deerfield. "We are proud to sponsor educational programs that build knowledge, promote collegiality and further scholarship."
The Georgian style had its roots in 17th-century England, when architects Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren designed buildings influenced by Andrea Palladio's principals developed during the Italian Renaissance. Roman and Greek temples were being excavated in the 18th century inspired decoration, while technology and increasing prosperity allowed for more expansive and spacious architecture. "The Georgian era (1714-1830) refers to the period when four kings, all named George, successively occupied the British throne," said Amanda E. Lange, Curatorial Department Chair and Curator of Historic Interiors. "Even though fashions in architecture, interior design, and decorative furnishings changed during that time, Georgian taste based on elegance, balance, and symmetry, achieved favor in Great Britain and its colonies in North America."Colonists looked to England for precedents of fashion and taste. Georgian designs became popular emblems of cultural sophistication for wealthy Englishmen, and by 1700 began to reach the American colonies in the form of architectural pattern books. Those who desired to display their status, knowledge, and refinement selected the Georgian style for their new homes and furnishings. "Although unfair to call their grand 18th-century Georgian homes 'McMansions'," said Lange, "homeowners in the American colonies certainly saw these structures as physical manifestations of their growing success." In addition to the keynote Dr. Bowett, speakers will include: Dr. Kimberly Alexander, Chief Curator of Strawbery Banke; Brock Jobe, Professor of American Decorative Arts at the Winterthur Museum and author of Harbor and Home: The Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850 (2009); Thomas Michie, The Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp Stearns Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Joshua Lane, Curator of Academic Programs and Curator of Furniture at Historic Deerfield; and Janine Skerry, Curator of Metals at Colonial Williamsburg, and co-author of Salt-Glazed Stoneware in Early America (2009). For more information and registration, please call Julie Marcinkiewicz at 413-775-7179 or email events@historic-deerfield.org. ### |
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