Honoring Newton and Olive Foster
Show & Tell – Honoring Newton and Olive Foster March 10, 1998
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Meeting
The Hajji Baba Club Annual Picnic
The picnic is only for club members and their guests. For details and to RSVP please login to the member’s area of our website TIME: Plan to arrive early this year, around 11:00. Lunch will be served promptly at 11:30 AM. Guests are welcome, but be sure to reserve and pay for them in advance. The food
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Art Deco Hooked Rugs: Modernist Folk Art
The Coffee House Club 20 West 44th St 6th Floor NY NY 10036 Doors open 6:00pm for cocktails Lecture 6:45pm Business attire please Lawrence Kearney has been a long-time collector of 19th-century American “folk art” hooked rugs. Fifteen years ago while visiting the Brimfield Antiques Market, he came across three Art Deco hooked rugs and
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Reassembling a Persian Beauty & How To Kill a Moth – Tips and Tricks To Preserve Your Treasures
National Arts Club — Sculpture Court 15 Gramercy Park South (E 20th St), NYC Doors open at 6:00 PM. Meeting starts at 6:30 PM. Business attire, please, with a jacket for the gentlemen. This will be a unique evening for the Hajji Baba Club. Ms. Beselin will present two independent lectures. Each lecture will cover
Exotic Encounters – Reading Two 18th Century Chintzes
The Coffee House Club 20 West 44th St 6th Floor New York, NY 10036 Doors open 6:00pm Lecture 6:45pm This lecture will share the journey of discovery reading two remarkable chintzes painted on the south coast of India in the early to mid-18th century. These much travelled textiles, and the imagery they incorporate, provides a window on the dynamics of
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Back to The Future – Reconstruction of Anatolian Carpets From Renaissance Paintings
National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South (E 20th St), NYC Doors open at 6:00 PM. The meeting will begin at 6:45. Business attire, please, with a jacket for the gentlemen. Renaissance painters depicted some of the most beautiful Anatolian carpets. These wonderful carpets are now lost to our time. Through research and historical comparisons
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Where Does the Baluch Camel Ground Tree of Life Design Come From?
The Coffee House Club 20 West 44th St 6th Floor New York, NY 10036 Doors open 6:00pm Lecture 6:45pm Is it possible that the design of “Baluch” Camel Ground Tree of Life niche (“prayer”) rugs is really an echo of ancient Mesopotamian iconography? We will examine this idea and look at other connections between 19th
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SECRETS AND LI: Layers of Mystery in Dragon Tapestries from Hainan, China
The Coffee House Club 20 West 44th St 6th Floor New York, NY 10036 Doors open 6:00pm Lecture 6:45pm Ceremonial Dragon Covers of the Li of Hainan, around a dozen years ago, embroidered panels attributed to the Li, a tribal group living on the island of Hainan, China, began to appear in Chinese markets. Filled with
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