RFS YouTube Channel lecture index
I have prepared a hyperlinked index for each of the Society’s lectures on the RFS YouTube channel. It enables the user to go to straight to any given element without having to guess where in each talk...
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From Revival to Reform – BIFMO/FHS event
BIFMO-FHS is running a short online course about nineteenth century furniture next Wednesday 21 April 2021 entitled ‘From Revival to Reform’. The event will run from 4pm – 7pm(BST) and will comprise...
View ArticleRegional Furniture Society: Notice of Annual General Meeting 2021
While we are confident that the Annual Conference will go ahead in Lincolnshire in June, fewer have understandably applied this year and as we revive last year’s arrangements, there may be formal...
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In Sparkling Company: 18th-Century British Glass and Recreating the...
The FHS have kindly sent us an invitation to a forthcoming talk:The Furniture History Society invites you to a free-to-members online lecture‘In Sparkling Company: 18th-Century British Glass and...
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Victor Chinnery’s library in forthcoming sale
Members may be interested to know that a large collection of Victor Chinnery’s books are about to be sold at auction on 11 August 2021 at Dominic Winter Auctions. Jan Chinnery writes that the lots...
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Breton chests and carving
A yew ‘garlands’ chest front, dated 1664, South-western BrittanyPhoto credit: CEFA Auctions For members interested in regional furniture outside the UK, a scanned version of a long out of print...
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From Tower House to Country House – The Art and Architecture of North-East...
Craigevar Now that’s a proper castle. Members may be interested in the next forthcoming tour from Wessex Fine Art Study Courses in June 2022, organised by Barbara Peacock. Led by Dr David Jones, the...
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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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Visit to the Museum of the Home (Geffrye) London and a private viewing of the...
The Geffrye Museum has undergone a number of re-inventions over the 90 years since its foundation as a museum devoted to the furniture industry in what was then the most heavily populated and deprived...
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FHS event: Furnishing Goldsmiths’ Hall by Michael Shrive 28 November 2021 at...
RFS members are kindly invited by the FHS to ‘In the Richest and Most Costly Style’: Furnishing Goldsmiths’ Hall, 1834-5 by Michael Shrive (Assistant Curator at Waddesdon Manor), Sunday, 28 November...
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Chris Pickvance
We are very sorry to announce the death on 16 November 2021 of our former Chairman, Chris Pickvance, aged 77. Chris’s funeral will take place on 8 December 2021, at 2:40pm, at the Barham Crematorium,...
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English Regional Chair Makers Database now online
An index of almost 7,500 English regional chairmakers created by Bernard and Geraldine Cotton has been added to BIFMO, the British and Irish Furniture Makers Online database. The index was generated...
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Tuesday 4th January 2022 at 6:00 p.m. Het Dagboek 1826-1888 (The Diary...
Following his recent well-received on-line talk to the RFS: Witwerk – The History of Dutch Painted Furniture, Hans Piena, curator of the Open Air Museum at Arnhem (Nederlands Openluchtmuseum) will...
View ArticleThe diary of Eimert Papenborg (1826-1899)
Members who missed Hans Piena’s talk about the diary of Eimert Papenborg may catch up on the RFS YouTube channel here. I have indexed the talk as follows:Hans Piena, Conservator/Curator, Nederlands...
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Visit to Ercol factory
Members may wish to know that a tour of the Ercol factory, in Princes Risborough, organised by Jeremy Bate, will be advertised in the forthcoming RFS Newsletter. The factory also features in the BBC’s...
View ArticleSpring Events and Annual Conference
The following events are now available for booking via the website or by application to events.rfs@gmail.com: Visit to Ercol Factory, Princes Risborough, followed by the re-opened Wycombe Museum,...
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