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Furniture History Society 34th Annual Symposium
Furniture History Society 34th Annual Symposium
in association with The Victoria And Albert Museum
'Furniture In The 20th Century – New Perspectives'
Saturday 6 March 2010, 10.30am – 4.00pm
The Hochhauser Auditorium, Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7
Tickets are available at £36 for FHS members/V&A Friends, £5 for students and £45 general public. To book please contact the Victoria and Albert Museum Bookings Office, tel. 0207 942 2211 or www.vam.ac.uk/tickets.
10.30-10.35 Simon Swynfen Jervis (Chairman of the FHS)
Welcome
10.40-11.00 Christopher Wilk (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Same or Different? Studying 20th –century Furniture
11.05-11.40 Dr Marjan Groot (Leiden University)
Between Arts and Crafts and Aestheticism:
Theo Nieuwenhuis 1898-1920
11.45-12.20 Juliet Kinchin (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
In and Out of the Canon – Hungarian Modern 1900-1939
12.25-1.00 Dr Gulname Turan (Istanbul Technical University)
Turkish Furniture Design in the 1930s:
Responses to Art Deco in the Early Republican Era
1.00-2.15 Lunch (not included in ticket price)
2.15-2.50 Greg Castillo (University of California, Berkeley)
Free Radicals: The Unstable Politics of Bauhaus Furniture 1927-1960
2.55-3.30 Catharine Rossi (V&A/RCA)
Gio Ponti’s Superleggera Chair: Design and Craft in Post-War Italy
3.35-4.10 Glenn Adamson (Head of Graduate Studies, V&A)
Substance Abuse: Crafting Postmodern Furniture
4.10-4.25 Christopher Wilk
Closing comments from the Chair followed by Question & Answer session with the panel of speakers
4.30 Tea
Event details
- Furniture History Society 34th Annual Symposium
- Location: V&A
- Date: Saturday, 6th March 2010
Furniture History Society 34th Annual Symposium
in association with The Victoria And Albert Museum
'Furniture In The 20th Century – New Perspectives'Saturday 6 March 2010, 10.30am – 4.00pm
The Hochhauser Auditorium, Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7Tickets are available at £36 for FHS members/V&A Friends, £5 for students and £45 general public. To book please contact the Victoria and Albert Museum Bookings Office, tel. 0207 942 2211 or www.vam.ac.uk/tickets.