2010 MESDA Furniture Seminar
February 26 - 27, 2010
Mechanics, Masters, Builders & Businessmen:
Making furniture in the early South
Since 1993, the MESDA Furniture Seminar has gained a reputation for providing a forum at which the collector, curator, woodworker, and conservator come together to explore the subject of antique furniture through a variety of topics. Past seminar themes have included wood, turned furniture, painted surfaces, carved furniture, case furniture, upholstered furniture, tools and the trade, surface finishes and most recently regional southern chairs. Attendees at the 2007 Furniture Seminar heard themselves jokingly referred to as "furniture junkies." Many a truth is told in jest!
The 2010 Furniture Seminar will explore the complex world of the southern cabinetmakers' trade from the city to the country and from the indentured artisan to the master of a large shop. Featured will be the work of Baltimore inlay makers, master builder William Buckland and his carver William Bernard Sears, North Carolina cabinetmaker Thomas Day and the Burgner family of east Tennessee. The seminar will also include an open house in the MESDA collection.
Topics and Speakers
Friday, February 26, 2010
Walker, Buckland and Seay: The Interrelated Trades of House Building and Cabinetmaking in the Early South, 1720-1820
Robert A. Leath, Chief Curator, Vice President for Collections and Research, Old Salem Museums & Gardens
The Buckland-Sears Sideboard Table: the next step of conservation and research
Martin O’Brien, Cabinetmaker and Conservator, Winston-Salem, NC
Thomas Day, North Carolina Cabinetmaker
Patricial Phillips Marshall, Curator of Furnishings and Decorative Arts, The North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, NC
This lecture made possible by the Frank L. Horton Distinguished Lecture Fund
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Baltimore Inlay
Sumpter Priddy, Sumpter Priddy, III, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia
Workshop Demonstration: Shells, Flowers and a Variety of Ornaments: Inlay of Baltimore and the eastern Seaboard
Steve Latta, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The Burgner Cabinetmakers of East Tennessee
Daniel K. Ackermann, Associate Curator, MESDA and the Toy Museum, Old Salem Museums & Gardens
Cost
$285 for non-members, $235 for Friends of MESDA or Members of Old Salem (Includes all sessions, admissions, seminar materials, dinner Friday night, and lunch Saturday afternoon)
Registration
You can also contact MESDA at 336-721-7360 or email MESDAPrograms@oldsalem.org.
