Historic New England’s newest exhibition explores the development of American interior design through the stories of four historic houses and their creators. Guest curator Tripp Evans examines the pioneering role of the “bachelor aesthete” in historic preservation, collecting, and professional interior design. Spanning the Aesthetic Movement and Colonial Revival periods, the homes include:
With beautiful, intriguing, and engaging objects, this exhibition considers how Codman, Sleeper, Pendleton, and Gibson challenged traditional notions of the family home through a variety of distinctive stylistic approaches – a range made possible by their self-determined bachelorhood.
R. Tripp Evans, Professor of the History of Art at Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), is an award-winning historian of American art and design. Trained in architectural history at the University of Virginia, he earned his Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University. This exhibition and a book with the same title combine Evans’s passions for biography, design history, and Queer culture.
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Historic New England
Attn: Development Office
151 Essex Street
Haverhill, MA 01832
For more information on the exhibition or how to make a gift via wire transfer or stock, please contact the Development Office at 617-994-5951 or [email protected].
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