Boiseries. Decoration and Migration from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.

Programme:

Thursday 12 January

10:00 Arrival and Registration

10:30 Welcome – Introduction by Lindsay Macnaughton

10:45 First Session – The Cultural Impact of French Émigrés in Britain Moderated by Lindsay Macnaughton
Camden Place as a Headquarters of Bonapartism, 1870–1879
Thomas C. Jones
Senior Lecturer, The University of Buckingham
The French Imperial family in exile: the display of collections in Camden Place, 1870–1880
Rebecca Walker
Independent Scholar
Lord Hertford’s room from the Château de Bercy
Félix Zorzo
Curatorial Assistant (temporary cover for the Curator of 18th-Century French Decorative Arts), The Wallace Collection

12:45 Lunch (Provided)

1:45 Second Session – Moving Rooms: Markets and Merchants Moderated by Mark Westgarth
The valued fragment: Georges Hoentschel as dealer in historic interiors Ulrich Leben
Independent Scholar
Decorating on a Grand Scale: British Professional Decorators of the Early Twentieth Century
Pat Wheaton
Independent Scholar
Saviours or gravediggers of panelling? Some thoughts on the role of merchants
François Gilles
PhD Candidate, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines

3:45 Tea and Coffee Break

4:15 Keynote lecture – The archaeology of Camden Place: an architectural conundrum Lee Prosser
Curator of Historic Buildings, Historic Royal Palaces

5:15 Closing Remarks

6:00 Drinks Reception (Open to All)

7:00 End of Day One

7:15 Dinner hosted by Chislehurst Golf Club (Invitation Only)

Friday 13 January

9:30 Tours of Camden Place (Registrants)

10:00 Arrival and Registration

10:30 Welcome – Opening remarks by Laura C. Jenkins

10:45 Third Session – Staging the Past: Boiseries and ‘Period Rooms’
Moderated by Laura C. Jenkins
Frédéric Dassas
Senior Curator, Musée du Louvre
The ‘Roman’ Petit salon of the duc d’Aumont and the 18th-century origins of the period room
Gabriel Wick
Lecturer, NYU Paris
‘Un Décor Authentique et Harmonieux’: Framing and Aestheticising the Cognacq-Jay Collection
Barbara Lasic
Lecturer, Sotheby’s Institute of Art

12:45 Lunch (Provided)

1:45 Fourth Session – Franco-British Collectors of Boiseries Moderated by Helen Jacobsen
British Duc d’Aumale: The boiseries of Orleans House, from Twickenham to Chantilly
Mathieu Deldicque
Director, Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly
Contextualising the Rothschild collection of panelling at Waddesdon Manor (Provisional title)
Mia Jackson
Curator of Decorative Arts, Waddesdon Manor
Uncovering Identity and a Nationalist Narrative: The Imported Interiors at Harlaxton Manor
Carter Jackson
PhD Candidate, Boston University
History of the paneling of the State bedroom of the Hôtel de Chevreuse et de Luynes in Paris (1765– 2014)

3:45 Tea and Coffee Break

4:15 Fifth Session – Reuse and Reinterpretation Moderated by Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth
Past Lives: The Mona Von Bismarck House, 34 Avenue de New York, Paris
Melany Telleen
Independent Scholar
Boiserie Alternatives: Wallcoverings in glass beads, straw, lacquer, porcelain and feathers
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
Independent Scholar

5:45 Closing Remarks

6:00 Tours of Camden Place (Registrants) 6:30 End of Conference

Organised by Dr Lindsay Macnaughton (University of Buckingham) and Laura C. Jenkins (The Courtauld Institute of Art), with support from Chislehurst Golf Club, The Chislehurst Society, The University of Buckingham, and The Society for the Study of French History.

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