The Butter Museum in Cork
The Regional Furniture Society visited the Butter Museum in Cork during its visit to Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic in September 2019. The film below was made by the Butter Museum as part of...
View ArticleAGM Reminder
You will already have seen a post indicating that the AGM has had to be arranged as a Zoom meeting. It indicated that you should contact Jeremy Rycroft on justj2r2@gmail.com to obtain the code and...
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Lecture – Sunday, 1 November 2020, 19:00 – Dr Francesca Vanke –‘A rich stone...
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: The Furniture History Society invites you to...
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Claudia Kinmonth’s Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000: Signed...
This month sees the publication of Claudia Kinmonth’s keenly awaited Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000 (pp. 550 illus 448., Cork University Press). Following the Society’s Irish tour...
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Lecture – Sunday, 8 November 2020, 19:00 (GMT) – Reattributing the...
We are again grateful to the Furniture History Society and British & Irish Furniture Makers Online for their kindness in inviting RFS members to the latest in their series of free online lectures....
View ArticleDécoration intérieure et plaisir des sens (1700-1850) 3 and 4 December 2020...
online / Université de Genève (Unité d’histoire de l’art), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Equipe de recherche HiCSA et Ecole doctorale d’histoire de l’art), 03. – 04.12.2020 Décoration...
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Lecture – Sunday, 22 November 2020, 19:00 (GMT): Wilhemina Castelijns –...
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Eve Eunson: Fair Isle Chairs on display in Da Gadderie, Lerwick
In collaboration with the Shetland Museum and Archives, this exhibition gives an insight into the history, traditional craft and distinctive qualities of Fair Isle chairs. This exhibition is running...
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Lecture Series: Seminar in Palaeography & Manuscript Studies 2021, Bodleian...
Members might like to know about this series of lectures from the Bodleian. Meetings will take place online via Zoom on Mondays at 2.15pm (GMT) in weeks 1, 3, 5, and 7. Original manuscripts will be...
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Furniture History Society forthcoming lectures
Members may be interested in the following FHS forthcoming lectures. Last year the FHS very kindly made their talks available to RFS members free of charge. This year these talks will only be free to...
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Research in Progress: New Thinking about Medieval Furniture 13 March 2021 via...
The next meeting in the series of Research in Progress meetings will take place on 13 March 2021 as a Zoom meeting. As with the previous two themed meetings, (Sixteenth-century Furniture and The...
View ArticleAnnual Conference, Wednesday 23rd to Sunday 27th June 2021
Updated details for the Annual Conference may be found here. The booking form may be found here.
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18th century Windsor Chairs – Part 1 – early types & new discoveries in...
This talk by Julian Parker may be found on the RFS’s YouTube channel here.
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East European chest, probably Romanian but possibly Hungarian, needs new home
This painted East European chest, probably Romanian but possibly Hungarian, is in need of a new home. It is 3ft 3in wide, 1ft 10in deep and 2ft 9in high (99cm x 56cm x 84cm). Members who went on the...
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Regional Furniture Society – online lecture – 18th century Windsor Chairs –...
This talk by Julian Parker may be found on the RFS’s YouTube channel here. Research, repairs and authentic replication
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Claudia Kinmonth: Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000 – update
The second print run of Claudia Kinmonth’s book, Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000 (Cork University Press, November 2020) is in the shops. If anyone wants a signed copy, request it...
View ArticleWhat would your 16th/17th century social status have been?
A bit of lockdown amusement: a group of Early Modernists are engaged on project examining and writing about the everyday cultural lives of the middling sort 1560-1650. They have come up with a Social...
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New Publication: ‘NAMES FOR THINGS’ By Victor Chinnery
NAMES FOR THINGS A Description of Household Stuff Furniture and Interiors 1500-1700 Members will be pleased to hear that the posthumous publication of a glossary of terms, written by Victor Chinnery is...
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Forthcoming FHS lectures
The FHS have kindly sent us a list of their forthcoming talks: Wednesday 17 March 2021 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. BIFMO half-day on-line course Georgian Furniture Makers Sunday 21 March 2021 at 7 p.m. BIFMO...
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The History of Dutch Painted Furniture: 7 April 2021 at 6 p.m: now on RFS...
The Regional Furniture Society was delighted to present a Zoom lecture by Hans Piena, Conservator of the Dutch Open Air Museum, Arnhem on Wednesday, 7th April at 18:00 hrs GMT on ‘The History of Dutch...
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