Society Events for 2020
Regional Furniture Society 2020 events are now open for booking. Forms are available on this website for members to print off (links to be found within individual events below). These forms will also...
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Spring 2020 Newsletter
The Spring 2020 edition (No.72) of the RFS Newsletter is now available to members. In this issue Future Society Events including visits to Leeds and Lancaster, the Research in Progress meeting on...
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Non-RFS event: Exhibition in Glasgow: The Chair 18th Century to the Present Day
Katie Hannah of Lyon and Turnbull has invited RFS members to a private view of The Chair 18th Century to the Present Day Exhibition on 19 March 2020 at 182 Bath Street, Glasgow. Crissie White is...
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The Worshipful Company of Upholders’ Travel Bursary
Applications are invited for The Worshipful Company of Upholders’ annual Travel Bursary (£1,000). The scheme is open to applicants who need to undertake travel with regard to any aspect of the trades...
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Blair Castle – update – find a copy of Country Life!
RFS members may like to get hold of a copy of the March 11th issue of Country Life: the magazine contains a fascinating article by former RFS journal editor David Jones which dovetails an article on...
View ArticleKeeping Members informed and entertained during the current crisis
Unfortunately Society events have had to be postponed or cancelled because of coronavirus risk. Here is the updated calendar which makes for sad reading. In order to keep us up-to-date and, I hope,...
View ArticleTobias Jellinek: Early British Chairs and Seats: 1500 – 1700
The Events Secretary has received this message from Ian Deakin who was looking forward to attending the cancelled West Yorkshire study day: “Myself and my family are NHS employees currently working...
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The Welsh Stick Chair – a new book
Regional Furniture Society members will be interested to learn that Tim and Betsan Bowen have just published The Welsh Stick Chair – a visual record (Pethe Press 2020). Welsh-speaking members and...
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Servants’ Furniture in the Georgian Country House – Professor Jon Stobart
We have received a kind invitation from British & Irish Furniture Makers Online (in collaboration with the Furniture History Society). Members are invited to their Sunday online lecture:...
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An Enlightenment Kaleidoscope Unveiled: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s...
We have received another kind invitation from the Furniture History Society. Members are invited to their Sunday online lecture: “An Enlightenment Kaleidoscope Unveiled: Joseph Friedrich zu...
View ArticleWessex Fine Art Study Courses: From Tower House to Country House: The Art and...
RFS members will be interested to hear about this course run by Wessex Fine Art Study Courses and led by Dr David Jones. The tour will be based in Aberdeenshire, a magnificent and unspoilt part of...
View Article6th September 2020 at 7.00pm – Dr Mark Westgarth: Curating SOLD! Dealers,...
Dr Mark Westgarth is giving a FREE talk on ZOOM on behalf of the Furniture History Society on curating the SOLD! exhibition, staged at The Bowes Museum last year. For those of you that missed the...
View Article‘Gothic’ chests: caveat emptor!
This article describes a plain Spanish chest which has had gothic carving added in recent decades. John Andrews’s book British Antique Furniture: price guide and reasons for values (ACC, 1989, p. 162)...
View ArticleRegional Furniture Volume 34 – a taster
Regional Furniture Volume 34 will include an article about the chest in St Martin’s Church, Hindringham, Norfolk. Johann von Katzenelnbogen in Maryland has an interesting blog which mentions this...
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Ernest Gimson’s Furniture Business BIFMO/FHS free online lecture by Annette...
The Furniture History Society have again very kindly invited RFS members to an online lecture this Sunday. British & Irish Furniture Makers Online in collaboration with The Furniture History...
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Lecture: Sunday, 20 September 2020, 19:00 Camille Mestdagh – Valuing old,...
The Furniture History Society have again kindly invited RFS members to an online lecture. The Furniture History Society invites you to the latest in our series of free online lectures: Camille Mestdagh...
View ArticleRegional Furniture Society – Notice of Annual General Meeting 2020
National restrictions on meetings have recently been strengthened due to the resurgence of the coronavirus; the expectation of a second wave affecting both London and certain provincial areas means the...
View ArticleThe Churches Conservation Trust Online Lectures Series – October 2020
Members may be interested in this lecture series being given online by the Churches Conservation Trust. They are livestreamed via the CCT Facebook page. Thursday 1st October, 1-2pm (GMT): Dr Gabriel...
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Index to the Newsletters
The index of all the pieces which have appeared in the Newsletters has been updated for the most recent issue No 73. William Sergeant has pointed out to me that in my own piece about chairs in...
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Lecture: Sunday, 18 October 2020, 19:00 (BST) – Imported British Furniture...
We are again grateful to the Furniture History Society for their kindness in inviting RFS members to the latest in their series of free online lectures: Tom SavageDirector, External Affairs...
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