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December 2015 Issue #63 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATTINGHAM Season’s greetings and best wishes for a wonderful new year! INSIDE THIS ISSUE: L ETTER FROM THE P RESIDENT One of the greatest pleasures of working with the American Friends of Attingham is the opportuni- 2 New Board Members ty to get together with old friends among our alumni and meet new ones. Maine in summer seems to attract numbers of us. My husband and I are lucky to have 3 a cabin near Blue Hill/Deer Isle, as well as a boat, and this Alumni News past July Beth Wees ’81, RCS ’04; Christopher Monk- house ’66, RCS ’01; Bill McNaught ’70, RCS ’97; and I (left) journeyed out to join the flotilla greeting the replica of Upcoming & Recent 4-6 Events the French frigate Hermione, which had brought Lafayette to the colonies in 1780, as she sailed up Penobscot Bay heading for Castine Harbor. We were speechless at the drama of her 2015 Attingham 6-7 emerging from the fog, appropriately attired crew aboard, and Scholars Reflect could almost imagine ourselves as time travellers. Phelps Warren Society 7 On another occasion, David Maxfield ’85 and Anne Verplanck ’92 (below) joined us for an evening boat excursion. Every August, Woodlawn Museum, Gardens, and Park in Ellsworth, Maine hosts America’s longest running antique show. In Memoriam 8-9 Among the opening night attendees were Tom Michie ’81, RCS ’14; Christopher Monkhouse and former AFA Director, Phillip Johnston Application Guidance 9 ’75 who has joined Woodlawn’s Board. I enjoyed sitting at his table at the opening night dinner, where we were joined by Arlene Schwind ‘74. Next summer’s dates for the Woodlawn show are August 17- 20, 2016— Attingham needs you! 10 come to Maine and join the fun! Finally let me recognize everyone who has donated, or will contribute to the Annual Appeal before the end of 2015, and to all of you who have given so much of your time. Thank you! And all best wishes for 2016. 2016 Attingham Application Deadlines — Sheila ffolliott ’79, RCS ’98, SP ’11, ’12, ’15 [email protected] The London House Course April 19-25, 2016 ETTER FROM NGLAND Due January 11, 2016 L E Attingham lost two splendid stars this summer without whom the Trust and the AFA would not be Study Programme what they are today. The death of Dr Geoffrey Beard followed within days by Sybil Bruel was a The Historic House in Denmark heartfelt reminder of those heady days of the 1980s/90s and early 2000s. Tributes have been June 1-8 , 2016 many and the thanksgiving service held for Geoffrey in London at the end of October was well- Due January 24, 2016 attended by many friends and colleagues wanting to celebrate the life of this energetic man. He was inspiring, generous and exceptionally kind whose involvement with the Summer School from The 65th Attingham 1966, becoming its director in 1987, made him many life-long friends. The sharing of his encyclo- paedic knowledge was legendary and many a person has reason to thank Geoffrey for the encour- Summer School agement he gave with their careers – not least myself. (see www.attinghamtrust.org/Newsletter June 30-July 17, 2016 2015) Due January 31, 2016 Geoffrey was one of Attingham’s best ambassadors to the States. It was a country he loved and Royal Collection Studies who loved him. He made great friends with Sybil, the American Friends administrator for some September 4-13, 2016 twenty years often staying with her and her husband, Jack, in their New York apartment. Togeth- Due February 12, 2016 er they made a strong team often working around her kitchen table placed under a shelf full of books incongruously entitled ‘Beard on Food’ (not one of his many tomes I hasten to add). A simi- French Eighteenth-Century lar sense of humour and laughter bound them together and the room would rock with their stories Studies at the Wallace Collection and reminiscences as Attingham blossomed under their care and dedication. October 9-14, 2016 Due April 30, 2016 When Geoffrey retired as director of the Summer School in 1994, the Trust put together an album of poems and pictures for him with contributions from many of the alumni. It is full of wonderful Applications and scholarship memories which perhaps the Trust should consider making viewable online. In true Attingham information available online: fashion, Sybil wrote a poignant poem for the album (pg. 9) a fitting tribute to them both. www.americanfriendsofattingham.org — Annabel Westman Executive Director, The Attingham Trust Issue #63 Page 2 MEET OUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS The AFA welcomed new Board members at Sawyer continued. SUMMER SCHOOL CLASS OF 2015 the Annual Meeting in September. This tion of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in REPRESENTATIVE: year’s slate of Directors was unanimously East Flatbush. approved by the members and in- Philip Reeser ’15, is a cludes Rich Aste ’14, RCS ’15; Sarah E. A native of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, senior editor at Rizzoli Lawrence RCS ’06; Sean Sawyer ’02; Sean received a B.A. summa cum laude International Publications, Mary Riley Smith SW ’08, SP ’13; Ste- from Princeton University in 1988 and his focusing on architecture ven Spandle ’11, LHC ’14; Diana Toole Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1999, and interior design. His ’11; David Wilton SP ’12. In addition to specializing in 18th- and 19th-century Brit- professional history in- the four new Directors, Philip Reeser ish architectural history. Sean has taught cludes work with ar- ’15 will serve as class representa- at Columbia, Fordham and Harvard univer- chives and art installations tive. Margaret Civetta ’89, LHC ’10, SP sities as well as Parsons School of Design, at Condé Nast Publications ’97, ’09, ’10, ’13, ’14, RCS ’15 rotated a division of The New School, Master's and the estate of photographer Ernst Haas. off the Board but has kindly agreed to re- Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Reeser received a BA in Fine Arts from the main as AFA’s legal counsel. Jeffrey Herr Design at the Cooper-Hewitt. He has con- University of Virginia with a summer spent '98, SP '15 also stepped off the Board tributed essays and articles to numerous in Vicenza, Italy, studying the architec- after many years including service as VP publications on late Georgian architecture ture of Palladio. Recently, he received an Recruiting. Thanks to all. and urbanism as well as Dutch-American advanced degree in library science (MLIS), history and architecture. In 1996, he was specializing in rare books and special col- awarded the Society of Architectural Histo- lections, with a practicum at the Library of NEW DIRECTORS: rians of Great Britain's Hawksmoor Essay Congress researching books on architec- Medal, and in 2002 he attended the Atting- ture and design from the fifteenth through Sarah E. Lawrence RCS ham Summer School as a Royal Oak Fel- early twentieth centuries. ’06, is the Dean of the low. School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design, Steven W. Spandle ’11, a division of The New LHC ’14, is a classical archi- American Friends of Attingham 50th School. She received her tect with Fairfax & Sam- Anniversary song to the tune of undergraduate degree mons, where his primarily "Land of Hope and Glory" from Swarthmore College, focus is residential design. He and her masters and doctorate from Co- was raised outside of Savan- lumbia University in Renaissance Art Histo- nah, Georgia, and the archi- Land of country houses, ry and in Theory and Criticism. Prior to her tecture of the South had a Attingham knows them all, appointment as Dean, she spent ten years profound influence upon him Chatsworth to Charleston, as Director of the MA Program in the Histo- since early childhood. After receiving a ry of Decorative Arts and Design, run joint- Bachelor of Architecture from the Georgia We are in their thrall. ly by Parsons School of Design and The Institute of Technology, he began his pro- Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Previously she fessional career in Atlanta working with Lowenthal and Trevelyan, was the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Norman Davenport Askins. Steven earned Curatorial Fellow at the Jewish Museum. In a Master of Architecture in Classical Design Hayward, Waterfield, White, her scholarship, Dr. Lawrence's focus is the from the University of Notre Dame. Before Also Beard and Westman visual culture of Early Modern Europe. Her moving to New York City, Steven lived in Led us into the light. research has focused on the work of Va- Boston, where he served on the board for lerio Belli, Jacopo Strada, and Giovanni the New England Chapter of the Institute Dukes, earls and barons Battista Piranaesi. She has curated such of Classical Architecture and Art. His hob- Welcomed us with delight. exhibitions as "Crafting a Jewish Style: The bies include traveling and expanding his Art of Bezalel, 1906-1996" (1998-1999); library of architecture and decorative arts and "Piranesi as Designer" (2007-2008). In books. Daytime traveling by coach, addition to courses on the Decorative Arts The next house comes into sight. of the Renaissance, she teaches the Histo- Studying each mansion in detail, riography and Theory of Decorative Arts; Collector David Wilton Exhibition Design; Proseminar; and Design SP ’12, is a Managing Early morning to night. Criticism. Director with Morgan Furniture, textiles, silver, Stanley Alternative In- All the things we would see, vestment Partners where Sean Sawyer ’02, is the he leads initiatives in Ceramics, painting and sculpture, Washburn & Susan Ober- Investing with Impact.

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