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During the first few weeks of September 2023, several international conferences will feature presentations by HIG members: the Design History Society’s Annual Conference on 7-9 September 2023, in Porto, Portugal (https://displayingdesign.esad.pt/) and Educating the Interior Designer on 8 September 2023, an international conference in Ghent, Belgium (https://www.educating-the-interior-designer.com/), and SAH Virtual component of the Society of Architectural Historian’s 76th International Conference, online during 20-22 September 2023 (https://www.sah.org/2023/program). Displaying Design: History, Criticism and Curatorial Discourses. DHS Annual Conference 2023 Educating the Interior Designer. 8 September 2023, Ghent, Belgium. SAH Virtual Conference, 20-22 SeptemberRead More →

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April 12-15, 2023 Friday, April 14, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. : HIG Business Meeting/Announcement of Election for HIG Chair 2023-2025 Link to EVENT listing Friday, April 14, 3-5:10 p.m. : HIG-endorsed Session: Material Religion through the Sacred Interior, 3-5:10 pm Saturday, April 15: 2-6 p.m. HIG Bar Crawl Through Montreal! Pub Crawl Details: 1:40 pm, meet in the lobby of the Bonaventure Hotel Free Social Event, but buy your own drinks! Join the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) on a crawl through the historic, drinking holes of Montreal. This is a chance to socialize with fellow members. Newcomers are welcome to learn more about HIGRead More →

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HIG at the Met’s Rethought Period Rooms: Drinks and Discussion, Saturday, Feb. 18, 5:30 p.m. Beyond CAA Metropolitan Museum of Art 5:30 pm, Saturday, Feb. 18, 82nd and Fifth, NYC 5:30 pm meet sharp at the Great Hall Group Tour desk. We must enter as a group. CAA conference registration covers free admission to the Museum. After the College Art Association Conference concludes, please join the Society of Architectural Historians’ Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) for an informal visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rethought periodrooms, including the new Afro-Futurist room, Before Yesterday We Could Fly, with remarks by Met curators Sylvia Yount andRead More →

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Review: Boiseries at Camden Place, January 12-13, 2023 By Lauren Drapala (January 2023) A little over a week ago on January 12-13, 2023, I had the privilege of attending Boiseries: Decoration And Migration From The 18th Century To The Present at Camden Place, Chislehurst, UK. The conference was convened by fellow SAH-HIG member Laura Jenkins, a current PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Dr. Lindsay Macnaughton of University of Buckingham. Presenters and attendees represented a variety of institutions from across the United Kingdom, France and the United States, each considering the migrations of eighteenth-century boiseries from their original places of inception throughRead More →

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By Paula Lupkin, October 2022 In September, Tara Dudley (HIG Advisory Board) and I had a very “HIG” experience together in Mineral Wells, Texas. We went there as part of our service to the State Board of Review for the Texas State Historical Committee, advising on Texas proposals submitted to the National Register of Historic Places. Typically, the Board tours a local, recently designated building when we meet. This time we got to explore the fabulous 1929 Baker Hotel, currently undergoing renovation as a luxury hotel and spa. The chief contractor guided us through a building that had been stripped of its finishes and fittings,Read More →