Events at Cooper-Hewitt
In conjunction with the exhibition “House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection,” faculty and students in the Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Master’s Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design will discuss aspects of their recent research dealing with the home. Topics to be discussed include the nature of domestic space, the decoration of the interior, and the house as an object particularly fraught with meaning. After the lectures, the participants will join in a panel discussion.
Friday, December 5th, 2008
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Target National Design Education Center
Open to the public.
Free with Museum admission.
Pre-registration suggested as space is limited.
As documents of domestic life, the watercolors featured in House Proud celebrate nineteenth-century interiors and the designers that conceived of them. Cooper-Hewitt invites contemporary designers Hermes Mallea, Carey Maloney, Mitchell Owen, and Thomas Jayne to join exhibition curators Gail Davidson and Floramae McCarron-Cates for a roundtable discussion on residential interior design, historic restorations, design promotion, and the role of the interior space as a source of pride, convenience, personal status, and presentation then and now.
ModeratorsGail Davidson, Cooper-Hewitt
Floramae McCarron-Cates, Cooper-Hewitt
Hermes Mallea, M (Group)
Carey Maloney, M (Group)
Mitchell Owen, Consolidated Design Studios and Parsons, The New School for Design
Thomas Jayne, Thomas Jayne Studio
November 20, 2008 6:30 PM
Members, students, seniors: $10
Non-members: $15
