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Regional Furniture Society Events for Spring & Summer 2017 – the full list!
The full schedule of events for Spring/Summer 2017 is now available in the current Newsletter and online here on our Events page. On the Events page you can also find and download the booking forms...
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Day school: ‘House and Home’ 25th March
RFS members may be interested to know that there are still places available for the Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group’s day school on Saturday 25th March, looking at how Yorkshire houses...
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Date for your diary: Furniture History Society Annual Symposium, Saturday 6...
The Furniture History Society’s forthcoming Annual Symposium, ‘IN THE SPIRIT OF CORINTH AND ATHENS’: NEO-CLASSICAL GILT BRONZE will be held on Saturday 6 May 2017. Full details here: FHS ANNUAL...
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Regional Furniture Journal articles now available online
The sharp eyed amongst you may have noticed that we have gradually been making past Journal articles available on the Journal back issues page of this site. Volumes 1 -23 (1989 -2009) – that’s 20 years...
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Journal back issues (II)
Given the longstanding storage problems of back issues of the journal, and bearing in mind that all journals up to the year 2009 have now been digitized (with 2010 to 2014 to be added shortly), it was...
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Exhibition: Take a Seat! An exhibition of Lincolnshire chairs, Louth Museum,...
Members will be interested to hear about Take a Seat! An exhibition of Lincolnshire craftsman-made chairs which will be held at Louth Museum from 13th September to 28th October 2017. The...
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Clive Edwards to give the 2017 Christopher Gilbert Lecture, 3:00 p.m....
Clive Edwards, Emeritus Professor of Design History, Loughborough University, will deliver this year’s Christopher Gilbert Lecture: The upholsterer and the retailing of domestic furnishings 1600–1800....
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British and Irish Furniture Makers Online
Readers will be interested to hear about this fascinating new project – British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO). The project is a collaboration between the Furniture History Society and the...
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2017 Regional Furniture Journal
Happy New Year from the RFS! A quick reminder that volume 31, the 2017 edition, of the Regional Furniture Journal is currently available to all members. In keeping with our policy of providing free...
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Research in Progress: New thinking about sixteenth century furniture, 24...
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...
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RFS Spring/Summer Events 2018
The new events listings and booking forms are now available on our Events pages and in the latest copy of the Newsletter. Shandy Hall, www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk Details of the 2018 Research in...
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Chippendale 300: 1718 – 2018
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED During 2018 Thomas Chippendale and his legacy are being celebrated as widely as possible, both by encouraging greater public awareness of his genius and the glories of...
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16th century furniture in the Burrell Collection
Selection of furniture in the Burrell Collections, now available online via the Glasgow Museums collections navigator At the Research in Progress meeting at the V&A on 24 February 2018, curators...
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Spring Newsletter 2018
Members will by now have received their copy of the latest RFS Newsletter, featuring reports of recent Society events as well as a number of short illustrated articles and queries on regional...
View ArticleChippendale 300 exhibition: ‘The Paxton Style: Neat & Substantially Good’,...
Paxton House will be holding an exhibition to celebrate Chippendale 300, The Paxton Style: ‘Neat & Substantially Good’ exhibition (5th June to 28th August 2018) showcasing new research on the...
View ArticleNotice of Annual General Meeting 2018
The 2018 Annual General Meeting of the Regional Furniture Society will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday 1 July in the Glasgow School of Arts Students Hostel Building, on the fifth floor. It is in...
View ArticleRFS 2018 Conference and AGM to go ahead in Glasgow
The Society is delighted to confirm that our annual conference and AGM will go ahead, with only minor alterations to the program and venues, caused by the recent fire at the School of Art. We expect...
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Event: The Rush Seated Chair, Marchmont House, 14 – 15 September 2018
A date for your diaries: RFS members will be interested to hear about a two day symposium considering the rush seated chair, to be held at Marchmont House, Berwickshire this September. This symposium...
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The Accomplished Lady by Noël Riley
Another wonderful publication was released last year by one of the Society’s members and former Newsletter editor, Noël Riley. The Accomplished Lady – a history of genteel pursuits c. 1660–1860 is a...
View ArticleBook now for RFS visit to two chairmaking workshops in Warwickshire, Tuesday...
The first members’ event this Autumn is to Lawrence Neal’s workshop and Dave Green’s Sitting Firm company. Lawrence Neal is the only remaining maker of rush-seated chairs with a direct line of...
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