Cosmopolitan Club A connoisseur and collector of Old Master and modern paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts as well as carpets, Hans Koenig is an authority on Chinese and Central Asian carpets, a recipient of the prestigious Joseph V. McMullan Award, and the author of several highly-regarded books, in particular Splendor of the Sons of Heaven, […]
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The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Dr. Jon Thompson has been one of the most important scholars and authors, particularly in the study of classical carpets. Thompson became interested in carpets and textiles while practicing medicine in London. His interest in the study of rugs and resulting publications earned
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The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Mae Festa: My First Forty Years of Collecting DeWitt Mallary is a longtime Hajji, noted rug scholar, and author of numerous papers and articles. His most recent article appeared in the Winter 2009 issue of HALI- Bahluli? – A Group of Symmetrically –
The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Mae Festa: My First Forty Years of Collecting Presented by Jeff Spurr of New England Rug Society. Mr. Spurr is an independent scholar specializing in Middle Eastern historical photography, Islamic textiles and rugs. Mr. Spurr will discuss Mae Festa’s eclectic textile collection.
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The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Gerard Pacquin is a noted collector and rug scholar who resides in Northampton, Mass. His topic is The Influence of Textile Designs on Turkish Rugs.
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The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Peter Bichler is President of the Austrian Society for Textile Art Research. He has executed various exhibitions, catalogues & lectures for The British Council, the Museum of Natural History in Vienna and ICOC. His lecture topic, Fez & Kilim will offer new insights
The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Elena Phipps was a conservator and textile conservator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than thirty years. Her lecture will reprise her compelling article for the Met’s Winter 2010 Bulletin– Cochineal Red- The Art History of a Color
The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Paul Hepworth is an American paper and textile conservator, living in Istanbul, who holds an M.A. in Art History and Advanced Certificate in Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Most notably, Paul conserved the Topkapi textiles for
December 5, 2010 Mary Jo Otsea Sotheby’s NYC Mary Jo Otsea, Senior Vice President and head of the Rugs & Carpet Department will give us her personal guided tour of the upcoming winter sale at Sotheby’s New York.
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The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Stefano Ionescu is a Romanian well-known to most Hajjis for his guided Transylvanian rug tours and for Antique Ottoman Rugs In Transylvania, co-authored with Alberto Boralevi and Andrei Kertesz. His lecture topic is “Late Turkish rugs and their relation to the Transylvanian group.”
