Issue 02: February 2001
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Volume 10 Number 2 February 2001 HERITAGE Vancouver N e w s l e t t e r Fair bigger and better By Hugh D. McLean proven track record, The Vancouver Sun has become one of the main sponsors. Based on the broader publicity, this year’s ark your calendars! The second Heritage and Fair is expected to attract around 8,000. Watch for the pro- Antiques Fair is scheduled for March 24th and gram details in The Sun on March 23rd. 25th, at the Seaforth Armoury, 1650 Burrard The Fair will have more participants, with the number of MStreet, from 10:00am to 6:00pm. The first Heritage and available booths up from 42 to 61 this year. Already, 55 of Antiques Fair was held back in November 1999,also at the the booths have been sold. There are also 10 display tables Armoury. The original idea was credited to Ani Feuermann reserved for heritage societies. Demonstrations and lectures of the Vancouver Heritage Foundation. The Foundation will be held every hour with two venues to choose from, as saw the Fair as a fundraiser for its activities, as well as a well as a historic fashion show! public event to expose heritage to the general public. The This year’s Fair, while still focusing on the heritage hom- specific target is heritage homeowners, with the theme eowner, will have a stronger focus on house interiors. Many titled Everything for the Heritage Home — Inside and Out. of last year’s participants are returning. Some of the more The inclusion of antiques in the Fair is meant to broaden the prominent participants that were not at the first Fair include Heritage Fair’s exposure and appeal, and to complement antique dealers from Victoria, Lee Valley Tools, Reno’s of the other components. London, and William Swatter providing an antique chair According to Robert Lemon, Co-Chair of this year’s Fair, display mounted alongside period reproduction furniture. the first Fair was considered a success, both in financial Also new to this year is a CyberCafe set up by Shaw terms and the variety of participants and types of displays. It Communications with assistance from the City Archives. drew about 2,500 with only very limited publicity. With the see Heritage & Antiques Fair back page HERITAGE V a n co u V e r M o d e r n VancouverPRESENTS The Air That Bites Wednesday, February 21st 7:30 pm, Vancouver Museum Find out how nasty our air really is when conservator Andrew Todd explains the perils public art has to face outside. We may think that stat- ues like Captain George Vancouver surveying the city high on his perch at City Hall are safe, but even old George suffers from a variety of ail- Photo: R. Moffatt, 2000 ments that need attention. Our evening presentation will throw new light on our public art legacy. A tall green Guinness Special Presentation: The Ultimate Bungalow: The Gamble House-High Art and Careful on the waterfront Craft: The California Architecture of Greene and Greene Wednesday, March 21st by Robert Moffatt 7:30pm, Vancouver Museum Guinness Tower the typically grey Vancouver skies A lecture by Edward R. Bosley, from 1055 West Hastings Street, and the waterfront and forested the Gamble House, Pasadena, CA Vancouver mountains beyond. Dark grey gran- Charles Paine 1967-69 $15 for Heritage Vancouver and ite bands wrap vertically around an Vancouver Museum members and $20 inset section of the side elevations, for non-members. Call the Museum at nterested in expanding their neatly encasing the rooftop services 736-4431 for tickets and information. business holdings beyond Great and breaking up the building’s visual Britain, the Guinness brewing mass. Expansive multi-level outdoor The Art of Dying: Behind the Ifamily established its presence in plazas offer panoramic views of the Scenes at Mountain View Cemetery Vancouver during the 1930s with North Shore, while the huge lobby Wednesday, April 18th the purchase or construction of mural by Jordi Bonet contrasts the 7:30pm, Vancouver Museum three major landmarks: the Marine tower’s cool rationality with textured Building, the Lions Gate Bridge images of chaotically teeming Once threatened with closure, and the exclusive British Properties coastal marine life. Mountain View has a new lease on life. subdivision in West Vancouver. The In 1976 Paine designed the neigh- Find out what’s in store for this great 23-story Guinness Tower followed bouring Oceanic Plaza, also for burial ground and get a peek at the in 1967 amid several other shiny Guinness, at 1066 West Hastings. modern world of cemeteries. We’ll also new towers rising along the edge A curved pedestrian bridge links the explore the history and heritage of of Coal Harbour. two buildings, which remain in Mountain View and check out a who’s Built about a decade too late to be immaculate condition. Ironically, who of its more prominent residents. avant-garde, the Guinness Tower their prized waterfront views will nonetheless showcases the spare, soon be at least partially obscured by - elegant design and high-quality the Coal Harbour residential develop- All Heritage Vancouver meet materials of the classic International ments now under construction. ings start at 7:30pm, the 3rd Style office tower. English architect Wednesday of each month at Paine used curtain walls of tinted [email protected] The Vancouver Museum. glass and metal panels in grey-green Free for members and colours, melding the building with $5 for non-members. well as the process of production from Mark Your Calendar The Ultimate conceptual sketches to the houses and furnishings themselves. Each step mer- ited the close scrutiny and supervision Saturday, February 17th, 1:30pm Bungalow of the architects. The Vancouver Museum presents an New research has uncovered a afternoon of memories with Michael wealth of images never before pub- Kluckner in celebration of the 15th anni- eritage Vancouver is proud lished, and many of these will be used versary of the publication of Vancouver The Way It Was. to be part of the 2nd pre- to illustrate this talk. sentation in the Vancouver $6.00 for HV , Art Deco Society and Museum’s Occasional Arts March 21st, at the Vancouver Museum. Museum members and $10 for non-members. Hand Crafts Lecture Series. In March, $15 for Heritage Vancouver and Heritage Vancouver turns its meeting Vancouver Museum members and $20 Friday, February 29th, 9am-5pm over to a special presentation by non-members. Call the Museum at Edward Bosley of the Gamble House 734-4431 for tickets and information. The City Program in Pasadena, California. Mr. Bosley’s Implementing Heritage Conservation Standards time in BC is limited and Heritage This one-day workshop will provide an Vancouver has taken this opportunity opportunity to examine the use of stan- to put aside its regular program to dards which guide heritage conservation work. Canadian and US standards will be be able to have him speak here in discussed, as well as their application in Vancouver at the Museum. Edward the municipal context using Victoria and Bosley’s lecture, The Ultimate Vancouver as case studies Bungalow: The Gamble House - High Labatt Hall, Room 1700, Simon Art and Careful Craft: The California Fraser University at Harbour Centre, Architecture of Greene and Greene, will Vancouver,BC Fee $150 +GST explore the work of these two influential Photo R. Moffatt For more information contact, the City architects and take an in-depth look at Douglas Simpson house II, summer 2000 Program at Simon Fraser Harbour Centre one of their best-known creations. www.sfu.ca/city; [email protected]; 291-5254 Charles and Henry Greene are proba- March 23rd –25th bly best known as legendary residential Another loss The Heritage Antiques Fair architects of the American Arts and Crafts movement through the example ancouver’s dwindling stock of Seaforth Armoury, 1650 Burrard Street Friday, March 23rd - Gala Opening of The Gamble House, one of their so- Modernist houses took a blow Reception 6:00pm- 9:00pm called ultimate bungalows in Pasadena, this winter with the demoli- $100 limited tickets available California. In this sleepy resort town at Vtion of two more houses by Harold call 685-4888 Semmens and Douglas Simpson. Their Saturday & Sunday, March 24th & 25th the turn of the last century the Greenes 10:00am - 6:00pm drew from their craftsmen astonishing- second Mitchell house (profiled in the Admission $10 at the door ly high levels of artistic beauty and June 2000 newsletter) fell last summer, ($15 for both days) integrity of construction unequalled and now the first Mitchell house and Featured Events: Over 60 booths of Douglas Simpson’s own house in antique dealers, heritage home reno- among their peers. The English design- vation suppliers and trades, interior er, C. R. Ashbee, wrote of his visit to West Vancouver have been razed and garden products and suppliers • Charles Greene in 1909, “... [he] took by new owners. Vancouver’s own Art Appraisal Clinic conducted by Maynard’s Auctions • us to his workshops where they were The first Mitchell house, at 1730 Knox Road in the UBC Endowment CyberCafe for online heritage home making without exception the best and research • Restoration demonstrations Lands, was designed by Semmens in most characteristic furniture I have • Talks on heritage buildings, antiques 1949 before teaming up with Simpson and gardens • Historic fashion show • seen in this country.” and pioneered the glassed-in entry, Heritage garden suppliers • Heritage This presentation will seek to explain rear window-walls and multi-level societies and organizations • Book table what it was that made the Greenes’ / book launch • House portraits • Raffles spatial dynamics characteristic of their work so compelling, and why their and door prizes • Kids’ area • Food Court later work.