The 2018 RFS Research in Progress meeting will be held at the V&A Sackler Centre on the 24th February.
This year the event will focus on the sixteenth century, which saw great change in furniture types, usage, construction and decoration. Although a substantial body of material survives, the importation of furniture, the influx of immigrant craftsmen and the recycling of fragments complicates study of the field. The five papers presented will address a variety of furniture types and influences, based on close study of surviving pieces.
- Early marquetry technique in Europe – Yannick Chastang
- Imported cypress chests in the ‘long’ sixteenth century – Nick Humphrey
- The French furniture-making school in sixteenth-century Edinburgh – Michael Pearce
- Some problems in studying sixteenth-century furniture – Chris Pickvance
- Early Elizabethan chairs and chests at Sizergh Castle – Megan Wheeler
Further details about the presentations and speakers are available here on our new Research in Progress page .
The event will start at 10 am for 10.30am, and will finish at 4.45pm. It is open to all. The fee is £34 for RFS members, £39 for non-members and covers attendance and tea/coffee but not lunch, which can be purchased in the V&A café.
A number of 50% bursaries will be available (application details are available on the Research in Progress Booking form 2018). The deadline for applications is 5 February 2018.