Host: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Carnegie Mansion, 2 East 91st Street
Programme
Friday, 13 October 2000
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| 18.00 - 20.00 | Welcome Reception and Registration hosted by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2 East 91st Street |
Saturday, 14 October 2000
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Registration at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | Session 1: Lectures "New York City: Decorative Arts and Design, 1650-1860" Chaired by Derek Ostergard, Associate Director, Bard Graduate Center for the Study of Decorative Arts |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | 17th Century New York Kathleen E. Johnson, Curator Historic Hudson Valley |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Masterpieces of 18th-century American Furniture Brock Jobe, Professor of American Decorative Arts, The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Federal New York, 1784-1824 Deborah Waters, Curator Decorative Arts, The Museum of the City of New York |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | New York Decorative Arts & Design, 1870-1914 Kevin Sayton, Curator of Decorative Arts, The Brooklyn Museum of Arts |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Box Lunch Courtesy of Nanette L. Laitman, President American Craft Museum |
| 13.00 - 14.30 | Session 2: Lectures "New York City: Decorative Arts and Design, 1860-2000" Chaired by Deborah Sampson Shinn, Assistant Curator of Applied Arts, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |
| 13.00 - 13.30 | The Visual Arts in America, 1825-1860 Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, Associate Curator, American Decorative Arts |
| 13.30 - 14.00 | New York City Architecture and Design, 1920s and 1930s Gail Davidson, Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |
| 14.00 - 14.30 | New York Craft Today David Revere McFadden, Vice President and Chief Curator, American Craft Museum, President ICOM ICDAD |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Discussion and Closing Remarks |
| 15.00 - 17.00 | Break |
| 17.00 | Departure from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum for Welcome Dinner |
| 18.00 - 22.30 | Cocktail Reception and Welcome Dinner aboard yacht Romantica cruising New York Harbour, Hudson River, East River. Boarding at North Cove Marina, near World Financial Center off of North End Avenue |
Sunday, 15 October 2000
| Excursion to Hudson River Valley Historic Houses | |
| 08.00 | Bus departs from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |
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| 10.00 - 11.00 | Montgomery Place, Annandale on Hudson, NY. Guided Tour with Kathleen E. Johnson, Curator, Historic Hudson Valley |
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| 11.15 - 12.00 | Edgewater, Barrytown, NY. Guided Tour with Margize Howell, Curator of Jenrette Collection, and Jack Smith |
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| 12.15 - 13.15 | Blythewood House at Bard College, Annandale on Hudson. Lunch in the gardens |
| 13.30 - 14.30 | Tailings, Linlithgow, NY. Kate Kerin, Director, Hudson River Heritage |
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| 15.00 - 16.30 | Olana, Hudson, NY. Guided Tour with Linda Mclean, Heidi Hill |
| 19.00 | Return to Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |
Monday, 16 October 2000
| Excursion to Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware | |
| 07.00 | Bus departs from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |
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| 09.30 - 10.15 | Greeting and Introduction to the Winterthur Museum and to Collector Henry Francis DuPont by Brock Jobe, professor of American Decorative Arts, Winterthur Museum |
| 10.15 - 11.00 | Viewing of permanent Museum installation |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Tour of conservation and upholstery Workshops |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Buffet Lunch |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Guided tour through the Museum's Period Rooms |
| 15.30 | Departure and return back to New York City |
| 19.00 - 20.30 | Reception hosted by the Heller Gallery, 420 West 14th Street, showing contemporary glass and a special exhibition of works by Bertil Vallien |
Tuesday, 17 October 2000
| 09.00 - 12.00 | Session 3: Issues of Taste in the Decorative Arts and Design Co-chaired by Marianne Lamonaca, Curator, The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, and Rainald Franz, Curator Library and Graphics Collections, MAK, Vienna |
| 09.10 - 09.30 | Introduction Rainald Franz, Curator Library and Graphics Collections, MAK, Vienna |
| Issues of Taste in Decorative Arts and Design, 19th Century |
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| 09.30 - 09.45 | Bad Taste and Good Form Hans Ottomeyer, General Director, Deutsches Historisches Museum/ Berlin |
| 09.45 - 10.00 | Christopher Dresser in New York Widar Halén, Chief Curator, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Oslo |
| 10.00 - 10.15 | Aesthetics and Morality in Germany, 1880-1950 Sabine Thümmler, Staatliche Museen Kassel, Deutsches Tapeten Museum, Kassel |
| 10.15 - 10.35 | Discussion |
| Issues of Taste in Decorative Arts and Design, 20th Century |
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| 11.30 - 11.45 | Italy in the early 20th century, with emphasis on Gio Ponti and Domus Magazine Marianne Lamonaca, Curator, The Wolfsonian, Florida International University |
| 11.45 - 12.00 | "Beautiful!" Anniken Thue, Director, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Oslo |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Box lunch Courtesy of Barbara Tober, Chairman, American Craft Museum |
| 13.30 - 17.30 | Museum Tours: |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| New York Historical Society | |
| Museum of the City of New York | |
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| The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey | |
| 18.00 - 20.00 | Reception at the Cosmopolitan Club, 122 East 66th Street. Sponsored by The Magazine Antiques, Sandra J. Brant, Publisher and Alison Eckardt Ledes, Editor |
Wednesday, 18 October 2000
| 09.00 - 11.30 | Session 4: Business Meeting and Open Market Place Chaired by David Revere McFadden, Director Curatorial Affairs, American Craft Museum, President ICOM ICDAD |
| 11.30 - 13.00 | Box Lunch |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Behind-the-scenes Tour through Collections at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum with Gillian Moss, Curator of Textiles, Gail Davidson, Assitant Curator Drawings and Prints, Deborah S. Shin, Assistant Curator Applied Arts, Joanne Warner, Assistant Curator of Wallpapers, Stephen Van Dyk, Chief Librarian (Rare Books) |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Independent gallery visits |
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| 16.30 - 18.30 | Reception hosted by Tiffany & Co., 727 Fifth Avenue. With private viewing of spezial exhibition "Brilliant by Design: Jewlery and Silver Selections from the Tiffany & Co. Archival Collection." Fernanda Kellog, Senior Vice President, Tiffany & Co. |
| 18.30 - 20.30 | Reception hosted by Didier Aaron Inc. and Barry Friedman Galleries, 32 East 67th Street |
Thursday, 19 October 2000
| 09.00 - 12.00 | Session 5: The Future of Decorative Arts Museums Chaired by Ellenor Alcorn, Independent Curator and Adjunct Professor, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts |
| 09.30 - 09.45 | Introduction: The Future of Decorative Arts Museums: Should We Worry? Ellenor Alcorn, Independent Curator and Adjunct Professor, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts |
| 09.45 - 10.15 | What Do the Decorative Arts Museums Reflect? Mirjam Gelfer-Jorgensen, Chief Librarian, The National Art and Design Library Danish Museum of Decorative Art |
| 10.15 - 10.45 | Questions Raised by the Installation of the Paneled Rooms at the J. Paul Getty Museum Brian Considine, Conservator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California |
| 10.45 - 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | The Future of Applied Art Museums in Latvia Velta Raudzepa, Art Collection Manager, Decorative Applied Art Museum, Riga, Latvia |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | The Role of Context in Museum Installations Hans Ottomeyer, General Director, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Box Lunch Courtesy of Susan Weber Soros, Director, Bard Graduate Center |
| 14.00 - 17.00 | Museum Tours: The Museum of Modern Art The Brooklyn Museum of Art The Frick Collection The Hispanic Society of America |
| 17.00 - 18.30 | Reception hosted by the American Craft Museum, 40 West 53rd Street |
| 19.00 - 21.00 | Preview of the International Antiques Show, Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street |
| 21.00 - 22.30 | Dinner in the Historic Tiffany Room, Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, Tiffany Room courtesy of Anna and Brian Haughton |
| End of the Conference |