Lectures:
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Houston Antiques Dealers Association Lecture
February 14, 20083:00 p.m. and repeated at 6:30 p.m.
This year's lecturer is Laurie Stein.
Laurie Stein studied at Edinburgh and Tufts universities and at the University of Chicago. She has held curatorial positions at the St. Louis Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Deutscher Werkbund Collections and Archiv in Berlin and other places. She has organized exhibitions in both the United States and Germany on German decorative arts and design and has written and lectured extensively in these fields. Most recently, she contributed to the landmark exhibition Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity. This exhibition was organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum. It has traveled to the Albertina in Vienna, the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin and the Louvre in Paris.
Laurie Stein will speak on "Biedermeier to Art Deco".
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Laurie Stein will introduce us to the Biedermeier style and explain how one hundred years later French designers such as Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann looked back to the Biedermeier years as they created their chic new look, Art Deco and defined international design in the 1920s and 1930s.