BIFMO-FHS ONLINE COURSE – NOVEMBER 2024
British Furniture Abroad in the Eighteenth Century: its impact and influence
5.30pm – 8pm (GMT)
12.30pm – 3pm (EST)
12th, 19th & 26th November 2024
Join us online on three consecutive Tuesdays this November, when curators and historians will look at the diaspora of British furniture in the eighteenth century. They will consider its influences abroad and the ways furniture makers in other countries both copied and transformed these British models to suit local traditions and tastes. Each session will deal with a slightly different stylistic phase, with three expert speakers each dealing with the influence of British furniture design in a specific country.
Session I – Tuesday, 12 November
British Furniture Abroad in the Early Eighteenth Century
Dr Amy Lim Daniel Marot and the influence of his design
Dr Henriette Graf Furniture design in Germany 1700-1760
Alyce Englund The influence of Chippendale’s designs in British North America
Session II – Tuesday, 19 November
British furniture in Italy, Portugal and Spain
Enrico Colle British models for Italian craftsmen during the XVIII century
João Magalhães Portugal and English furniture
Mario Mateos Martin English influences in Spain: the royal collections as a case study
Session III – Tuesday, 26 November
The influence of British Furniture in Germany and North America
Wolfram Koeppe Abraham and David Roentgen: The Chippendale Connection
Dr Ulrich Leben Molitor and English design
Dr Daniel Ackermann Britain Born/American Made: Immigrant Craftspeople and their American Furniture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Tickets may be bought for individual sessions or for the entire course, but you will benefit from a discount if all 3 sessions are bought together. Don’t worry if you cannot attend the sessions live because they will be recorded and links to the recordings will be sent to ticketholders. These recordings will not be available to buy after the course has ended. FHS members and ECD members will benefit from a discount on all tickets. For further information and to purchase tickets please click here to travel straight to the relevant Eventbrite page. If you have any questions, please email .
IMAGES ON THE BANNER ABOVE (from left to right): Detail of a chair from the Royal Palace of Aranjuez (18th century); the Melville Bed (c. 1700) designed by Daniel Marot and on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; side chair attributed to Benjamin Randolph (c. 1769) on display at The Met, New York; Secretary Cabinet (c. 1775) by David Roentgen in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago; detail of a table by Odoardo Wyndham (1770) at the Capitoline museums, Rome.
