The Centre for Historic Houses is introducing a Seminar for the advanced study of the historic interior in India. The following Call for Papers may be of interest to the HIG community. Deadline: 1 March 2023 Contact: info.chh@jgu.edu.inRead More →
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 →
New books on 19th-century interiors A book event co-organized by the William Morris Society in the United States and the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians Friday, February 24, 1 pm EST(10 am PST, 11 am MST, 12 noon CST, 6:00 pm GMT) Andrea Wolk Rager, The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, distributed by Yale University Press, 2022)The first scholarly monograph solely devoted to the artist since 1973, this book re-centers Burne-Jones’s practice in the decorative arts, demonstrating that he consistently questioned the boundaries of artistic media, in keeping with wider debates over the role ofRead More →
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 →
Upcoming Conference “Educating the Interior Designer” The International Conference ‘Educating the Interior Designer’ will take place in Ghent (Belgium) on September 8th, 2023. Deadline for the call for papers is February 1st, 2023. See www.educating-the-interior-designer.com This conference is organized within the framework of the research project ‘The emergence of interior architecture in Belgium, 1945-1999. Assessing the impact of education on the identity formation of the design discipline’, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders and conducted at the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven.Read More →
HIG Event, Friday, November 4, 2022 12PM-1:30PM EST Zoom Event, Free & Open to the Public Registration: https://sah1365.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErd-mqrT0tGtCPimVZCK0V8BlJVBkni2VB This panel discussion will consider the resources available for publishing doctoral research in the field of historic interiors. Speakers include author Freyja Hartzell (Editor, West 86th), who has recently published her first book based on her dissertation research, Alice Tseng, Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and James Thompson, Publisher in Architecture, Art and Visual Culture for Bloomsbury Publishing. The conversation will consider different venues for publication in the history of interiors, appropriate strategies for adapting dissertations for manuscript proposals, and the manyRead More →
HIG Event, Friday, October 21, 2022 Moderator: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, HIG Research Committee At SAH 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, HIG President Paula Lupkin presented a paper based on extensive research into the historiography of interiors in several major scholarly journals, including the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Design History, and Winterthur Portfolio. The Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians (HIG) and its Research Committee invite you to participate in an online working session to examine new research on the history of interiors. At this session participants will discuss and analyze the research and findings of her paperRead More →
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 →
Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) of the Society of Architectural Historians Fall 2022 Newsletter and Calendar October 7, 2022 Now in its third year as an organization, HIG continues to build community and promote the advancement of the study of historic interiors, both within existing SAH membership and beyond. HIG’s president, secretary and executive board work to accomplish this goal through event programming, research projects, collaboration with other organizations, and the endorsement of sessions and activities at the annual SAH meeting. Last year the Emerging Scholars Committee hosted a second symposium, this year through SAH Connects. Their work has become a foundation of our group,Read More →
Public Interiority Symposium Call for Symposium and Exhibition Proposals The Public Interiority Symposium + Exhibition at the University of Tennessee Knoxville prompts designers to address the intersections between experience-based interiority and the city. It expands interiority beyond the simple enclosure and asserts an equal claim on urbanity and the commons. This question about interiority’s nature is critical and timely in the design discipline as it broadens our notion of interiors. It recognizes interiority’s primary features—human-scaled, responsive, and phenomenologically driven spaces, regardless of enclosure. The Public Interiority Symposium + Exhibition will be held in person at the University of Tennessee Knoxville on February 18, 2023, with a public exhibition inRead More →
