Design Seminar: Designing for Dining

Design Seminar

Designing for Dining

May 1-2, 2020

Please plan to join us on May 1st and 2nd when three legendary designers will come together to provide inspiration and share ideas about what’s chic in interior, architectural, garden, and landscape design.  In 2020, the MESDA Design Seminar will offer three distinguished speakers who will discuss Southern design with an emphasis on dining and entertaining.  

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*To receive your Frank L. Horton Society discount, please be sure you register and/or sign in with your Old Salem Museums & Gardens username and password.
**Full payment and guest names are required at time of registration.  Seating cannot be otherwise guaranteed.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

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Stan Dixon, AIA, is the president and founder of his Atlanta-based firm, D. Stanley Dixon Architect, Inc. Raised in Sumner County, Tennessee, Stan was inspired from a young age to study architecture.  His edited approach to the classical elements of architecture creates an understated aesthetic that is historically based while embracing influences of modern design.  In response to his work, Garden & Gun magazine named Stan one of “The New Faces of Southern Style.  He is a three-time winner of the “Southeast Architect of the Year” award given by Veranda magazine, and is an eleven-time winner of the Philip Trammell Shutze Award presented by the Southeast Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.

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Educator and culinary historian Jessica Harris is the author of twelve cookbooks documenting the foods and foodways of the African Diaspora.  She has been a professor of English in the SEEK Program at Queens College/C.U.N.Y. for almost five decades.  She is a regular presenter at the annual Literary Festival in Oxford, England, a contributor to Garden & Gun, has been honored with many awards including a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Foodways Alliance and was inducted into the James Beard Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in the United States.  From abroad and at her homes in New York, New Orleans, and Martha’s Vineyard, Dr. Harris works to connect cultures through cuisine.

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For the past 25 years, Thomas Jayne, founder and principal of Jayne Design Studio, has designed rooms that reflect a strong connection to history and place. He draws upon their past for inspiration, seeking details that will deepen and enhance their decoration. Whether the site is a SoHo loft in a late-19th-century industrial building or a historic Federal house built by a New England whaling merchant, the settings become part of the narrative, their history providing the impetus for the design.  Jayne’s most recent publication, Classical Principals for Modern Design takes on the redoubtable Edith Wharton and her co-author Ogden Codman, whose 1897 book The Decoration of Houses is acknowledged as the Bible of American interior design.  Thomas and husband Richmond Ellis divide their time between their SoHo loft in New York (housing a major collection of American culinary books spanning 200 years) and an 1836 Creole townhouse in the French Quarter of New Orleans.