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A presentation of the Burrell Furniture Collection, re-opening March 2022 –...
We are delighted to invite RFS members to a unique preview of the newly refurbished Burrell Collection, Glasgow, due to reopen this March having been closed for many years. The re-ordered museum will...
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Symposium: Our Irish Chair: Good Design Never Grows Old, 2:30 p.m. Saturday...
RFS may be interested to learn that the National Museum of Ireland’s full collection of ‘Sligo’ chair or ‘Tuam’ chairs is on display for the first time. An online symposium has been organised at 2:30...
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Grinling Gibbons and the Story of Carving: Conference at the V&A, 24 and 25...
Members may be interested to know of the forthcoming two-day conference ‘Grinling Gibbons and the Story of Carving’ which will be held on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 June 2022. Details for booking may...
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Newsletter Archive now online
In October 2021 the RFS Council approved a project whereby the back numbers of the Newsletters (which contain much interesting material by way of research pieces, visit/event reports, book reviews,...
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The Chippendale Society – Annual Lecture
Forthcoming lecture which RFS members are very welcome to attend: ANNUAL LECTURE 2022 Temple Newsam House, Leeds, Monday 23rd May, 2.00pm Dr Kerry Bristol, ‘Town versus Country. Rethinking Thomas...
View ArticleRegional Furniture Society – Notice of Annual General Meeting 2022
With a ‘normal’ Conference being held in June in Somerset, we are able to return to holding an AGM‘in person’. However, some members who were unable to attend Conference welcomed the use ofZoom AGMs,...
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The Only Spanish Mediaeval Artesonado Ceiling in the UK: 17 and 18 June at...
The Torrijos Ceiling RFS members may be interested in the following. Discover more about the only Spanish mediaeval artesonado ceiling in the UK: The British Academy Summer Showcase, June 17-18,...
View ArticleRFS Autumn 2022 Events
The autumn events programme continues our exploration of modest homes whose surviving furnishings project a strong sense of their past owners. During the Lincoln conference we visited a small cottage...
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FHS lecture: The Furniture Designs of C F A Voysey
RFS members may be interested in the following Furniture History Society Zoom lecture by Tony Peart, whose fascinating house in Carlisle some RFS members visited during our Carlisle and the Borders...
View ArticleDate for your diary: 2023 RFS Conference, 5-9 July 2023
The 2023 RFS Conference is in the early stages of planning. We expect to be based at Bangor University, Caernarfonshire, commencing Wednesday evening 5 July 2023 and ending the Sunday morning 9 July...
View ArticleNewsletter Index Update
Following the publication of the most recent RFS Newsletter, number 77, I have updated the indexes to the Newsletter Research Articles, the Book Reviews and the Obituaries to include NL 77. I have...
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Forthcoming Sale of Furniture by Gerald Summers
Members may be interested to know that Lyon & Turnbull have a sale in London on 28 October which features furniture by Gerald Summers, founder of Makers of Simple Furniture in the 1930s. A piece...
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RFS/MESDA Webinar via Zoom: Backcountry not Backwards: Working Wood in the...
RFS Members are invited to an RFS/MESDA joint webinar via Zoom. Join Daniel Ackermann, chief curator of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, live from the museum’s galleries in North Carolina...
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Chair of the Month for November is a First World War stick back Windsor with...
The back of the seat is stamped ELLIOT AND SONS/ A.W.F. / E.S/ 1917 / G.R.V. chairs. It can be seen in the ‘A History of Wycombe in 10 Objects’ display at Wycombe Museum. During World War 1, High...
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Conference – New Insights into C16th and C17th British Architecture –...
Unknown artist, Denham Place, Buckinghamshire, about 1695, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Members’ attention is drawn to the programme for the next New Insights...
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Society for Church Archaeology – Lecture: Rachel Sycamore –‘Church Chests in...
Members may be interested in this forthcoming lecture by Rachael Sycamore. The lecture is free. You may reserve a spot here. Rachel Sycamore, a furniture maker and restorer since 1995, now specialises...
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Chair of the Month for December is a modern Windsor by Ercol of High Wycombe
December’s Chair of the Month is a modern Windsor by Ercol of High Wycombe. It was made as part of a contract for Wycombe High School when the school moved to the Marlow Hill site in 1956 . The design...
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Journal Index Update
Following the publication of Volume 36 of the Journal, Regional Furniture 2022, I have updated the indexes to the Journal Articles. I have also published Regional Furniture 2019 on the Journal Back...
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Chair of the Month for January is a wheelchair with a beech frame and caned...
January’s Chair of the Month is a wheelchair with a beech frame and caned seat and back, made in High Wycombe in about the 1870s. It is not known which of the many local factories made this chair, but...
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Newsletter Index Update
Following the publication of the most recent RFS Newsletter, number 78, I have updated the indexes to the Newsletter Research Articles, the Book Reviews and the Obituaries to include NL 78. I have...
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