MODERN VISIONARIES WOMEN OF DESIGN - The Decorators Club
MODERN VISIONARIES WOMEN OF DESIGN - The Decorators Club
MODERN VISIONARIES WOMEN OF DESIGN - The Decorators Club
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OCTOBER 3, 2012<br />
VANESSA BELL<br />
THE DECORATORS CLUB<br />
2O12-2013 LECTURE SERIES<br />
<strong>MODERN</strong><br />
<strong>VISIONARIES</strong><br />
<strong>WOMEN</strong><br />
<strong>OF</strong> <strong>DESIGN</strong><br />
www.thedecoratorsclub.org<br />
OCTOBER 17, 2012<br />
BEATRIX FARRAND<br />
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 • Generously underwritten by MCKINNON AND HARRIS<br />
BEATRIX FARRAND<br />
BEATRIX FARRAND: PRIVATE GARDENS, PUBLIC LANDSCAPES<br />
Presented by JUDITH B. TANKARD, Landscape Historian<br />
NOVEMBER 7, 2012<br />
MARIA PERGAY<br />
tHe decorators cLub education fund, inc.<br />
JacQueLine beyMer Lecture series • 2012-2013<br />
the decorators club brings you up close to the style, design theories<br />
and personalities of five important women in western design.<br />
October 3 • VANESSA BELL presented by Dr. Alexandra Gerstein<br />
October 17 • BEATRIX FARRAND presented by Judith B. Tankard<br />
November 7 • MARIA PERGAY presented by Suzanne Demisch<br />
March 6 • SUZANNE BELPERRON presented by Nico Landrigan<br />
March 20 • RUBY ROSS WOOD presented by Mitchell Owens<br />
all lectures are on wednesdays at 6:00 pm and are held at<br />
new york school of interior design, 170 east 70 street, nyc<br />
the decorators club education fund, inc. was established in 1960 to support<br />
interior design education. the fund sponsors an annual portfolio competition<br />
for students in six colleges in the new york metropolitan area that offer bfa<br />
programs in interior design. the grants that are awarded are made possible by<br />
proceeds from these lectures and the generous support of corporate sponsors,<br />
members, friends, and colleagues.<br />
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 • Generously underwritten by TACONIC BUILDERS<br />
VANESSA BELL<br />
VANESSA BELL: <strong>DESIGN</strong>S FOR AN ARTISTIC LIFE<br />
Presented by DR. ALEXANDRA GERSTEIN, <strong>The</strong> Courtauld Gallery<br />
Beatrix Farrand (1872 – 1959) was one of the foremost landscape<br />
architects of the early twentieth century and the only female<br />
founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.<br />
Born into a prominent New York family (the niece of Edith<br />
Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the<br />
Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape design and plants.<br />
Her clients were members of high society with estates in Newport,<br />
the Berkshires, Maine, and Long Island, and later included university<br />
campuses, such as Yale and Princeton, and public gardens.<br />
Judith B. Tankard is a landscape historian and the author of six<br />
books on historic gardens and garden designers, including Beatrix<br />
Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes and most recently<br />
Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden.<br />
MARCH 6, 2013<br />
SUZANNE BELPERRON<br />
MARCH 20, 2013<br />
RUBY ROSS WOOD<br />
Lectures underwritten by<br />
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST<br />
J. Pocker & son<br />
Mckinnon and Harris<br />
cHarLotte Moss<br />
taconic buiLders<br />
cHeryL tague for core HoMe<br />
Patrons<br />
benJaMin Moore<br />
JaMie drake<br />
TRADITIONAL HOME<br />
friends<br />
PaMeLa banker<br />
debra bLair<br />
nancy boszHardt<br />
ann bowers<br />
Meg braff<br />
dering HaLL<br />
cLare fraser<br />
kravet<br />
LUXE INTERIORS + <strong>DESIGN</strong><br />
Patterson, fLynn & Martin<br />
scaLaMandré<br />
MattHew Patrick sMytH<br />
doreen steMPien<br />
verdura<br />
bunny wiLLiaMs<br />
veronica wHitLock<br />
While Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961) may be best remembered as a<br />
painter, member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia<br />
Woolf, she was also a design pioneer who blurred the line between<br />
the fine and decorative arts. As co-director of the Omega Workshops,<br />
Bell turned her highly individualistic, bohemian and artistic approach<br />
to designing rugs, textiles, furniture and interiors while fully expressing<br />
the ethos of the Bloomsbury Group: to do things with a difference,<br />
with originality, and without copying the past.<br />
Dr. Alexandra Gerstein is the Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts<br />
at <strong>The</strong> Courtauld Gallery in London. She recently curated “Beyond<br />
Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops (1913 - 1919)”, at<br />
<strong>The</strong> Courtauld Gallery, London, in 2009.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 • Generously underwritten by CHARLOTTE MOSS<br />
SUZANNE BELPERRON<br />
BELPERRON: “MY STYLE IS MY SIGNATURE”<br />
Presented by NICO LANDRIGAN, Verdura<br />
Suzanne Belperron (1900 – 1983) stands apart as the twentieth<br />
century’s only female master jeweler. Elegant and audacious,<br />
she pioneered a new aesthetic in jewelry, yet never sought<br />
recognition. Despite her discovery by style cognoscenti, her<br />
celebration by the fashion press, and her profound influence over<br />
the rest of the 20th Century's jewelry design, her name is little<br />
known today. Asked once why she never signed her work,<br />
Madame Belperron replied: “My style is my signature.”<br />
Nico Landrigan, President of Verdura, is responsible for relaunching<br />
the Belperron name and is writing the designer’s biography.<br />
THE DECORATORS CLuB EDuCATION FuND, INC. 2012-2013 LECTuRE SERIES<br />
<strong>MODERN</strong> <strong>VISIONARIES</strong><br />
<strong>WOMEN</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>DESIGN</strong><br />
___ I/We wish to purchase _______tickets to the series @ $125<br />
___ I/We wish to purchase individual tickets at $30 each as indicated below:<br />
___ ticket(s) October 3<br />
VANESSA BELL<br />
___ ticket(s) October 17<br />
BEATRIX FARRAND<br />
___ ticket(s) November 7<br />
MARIA PERGAY<br />
Total order for lectures $________<br />
___ ticket(s) March 6<br />
SUZANNE BELPERRON<br />
___ ticket(s) March 20<br />
RUBY ROSS WOOD<br />
Wednesday, November 7, 2012<br />
MARIA PERGAY<br />
MARIA PERGAY: MASTER <strong>OF</strong> STEEL<br />
Presented by Suzanne Demisch, Demisch Danant<br />
Wednesday, March 20, 2013<br />
Generously underwritten by ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, J. POCKER & SON and CHERYL TAGUE FOR<br />
CORE HOME COLLABORATIVE<br />
RUBY ROSS WOOD<br />
THE WIT, WISDOM, AND WORLDLY ROOMS <strong>OF</strong> RUBY ROSS WOOD<br />
Presented by MITCHELL OWENS, Architectural Digest<br />
If available, individual tickets may be purchased the evening of the<br />
lecture for $35 (cash or check only) or online at www.thedecoratorsclub.org<br />
I would like to make an additional contribution<br />
to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Decorators</strong> <strong>Club</strong> Education Fund, Inc. $________<br />
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Since debuting her first collection in 1957, Maria Pergay’s<br />
(b. 1930) sophisticated objects and furniture have been<br />
sought after by such luminaries as Salvador Dali, Pierre Cardin<br />
and the Saudi royal family. Her minimal, sculptural work with<br />
stainless steel, such as the iconic Flying Carpet daybed, c. 1968,<br />
represented a new era in interior decoration and positions her<br />
as one of the most pioneering designers of the 1970s. Pergay,<br />
now in her eighties, exhibits internationally, while continuing<br />
to create pieces for a growing audience of major collectors.<br />
Suzanne Demisch is the co-founder of the acclaimed 20th<br />
century design gallery Demisch Danant, and the co-author<br />
of Maria Pergay: Complete Works 1957 – 2010.<br />
Design journalist to top-drawer decorator, Ruby Ross Wood’s<br />
(1880 – 1950) mantra of simplicity and “common sense” resulted<br />
in words and rooms that continue to influence to this day.<br />
After writing on decoration under her own name and as Elsie<br />
de Wolfe’s ghostwriter, Wood put her words into practice and<br />
created interiors distinguished by their crispness, comfort and<br />
eclecticism. Owens will survey the colorful career of this<br />
American tastemaker who was hailed by her protégé<br />
Billy Baldwin as “<strong>The</strong> Finest Decorator Who Ever Lived.”<br />
Mitchell Owens is the special projects editor of Architectural<br />
Digest and an acclaimed writer on interiors, gardens, antiques,<br />
architecture, and high style.
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