The Inaugural Australian Furniture History Symposium held in Canberra in 2007 offered, for the first time, the opportunity for like-minded people to share in current expert knowledge. The programme included keynote papers and shorter well-illustrated sessions focussing on particular pieces or topics.
The Proceedings edited and produced by Greg Peters and Jim Kennedy have now been published in an illustrated eighty page A4 document which includes all fifteen papers, available from The Furniture History Society for $20 plus postage.
Coming Events Calendar for 2011
For details contact Rae Szuch
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Sat. 6 August A visit to three Melbourne Churches with Dr. Colin Holden
The interiors of many Melbourne churches contain a legacy of furnishings from the period between the boom of the 1880s to World War II, that displays the skills of cabinet-makers and woodcarvers using a variety of timbers, many of them Australian. They made everything from altars to lecterns, elaborate screens and various kinds of paneling.
This talk will introduce the audience to interesting and significant examples in three Anglican churches: St. Peter’s Eastern Hill, Christ Church South Yarra and All Saints East St Kilda.
Dr Colin Holden is a social historian who has published extensively through Melbourne University Press (3 titles) and elsewhere on nationalism, radical politics, the churches and the visual arts. Currently he is the Redmond Barry Fellow at the State Library of Victoria where he is researching the holdings of works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
Thurs. 22 September Michael Green, FHS member, will talk to us about Johann Martin Levein
Johann Martin Levein – Victorian Artist/ Entrepreneur/ Explorer/ Cabinet Maker. Michael will discuss the historical significance of the multiple Royally Appointed Cabinet maker, and a majestic cradle. The cradle is the first piece by Levein discovered since the Exhibition Sideboard that re-appeared and sold at Sotheby’s in 1998 for $821,000. In the 19th century, Levein travelled and worked in New Zealand. He collected local timbers which were later used in furniture made in Europe.
This presentation is held in conjunction with the University of Melbourne Alumni.
Venue: Melbourne Business School – University of Melbourne.
