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Symposiums (two per year)
  • Featuring the best decorative arts experts
  • Travel to locations around America and offshore (the Getty Museum, Monticello, Bermuda, Historic Deerfield, Annapolis, Charleston, Boston)
  • Exclusive, behind-the-scenes visits to private properties
Study Trip Abroad (one per year)
  • Searching for connections to American decorative arts
  • Meeting experts for lectures and collection tours
  • In an attempt to understand the transfer of design and style in the decorative arts, the Trust offers one study trip abroad each year to observe the antecedents of American decorative art and architecture. The study trips have been held in Venice and the Veneto looking at Palladian architecture, Holland, Scotland, Ireland, and England.

V.I.P. Antiques Weekend in NYC

  • Traditionally, the third week of January has become Americana Antiques Week in New York, with several major American auctions, many well-respected Americana antiques shows, various museum exhibits of American decorative arts, as well as opportunities to hear lectures by leading experts on various pertinent topics. The Decorative Arts Trust offers a weekend meeting organized around these many opportunities.


Save the Date!

September 30-October 3, 2010
Fall Symposium
Historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Online registration is open.

October 20-29, 2010
The 2010 Fall Study Trip Abroad
In the Footsteps of Jefferson: Paris and the South of France
Online registration is now closed. Please place your name on our waiting list.


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PAST SYMPOSIUMS


The Elegance of the Upper Hudson River Valley
Rhinebeck, NY
April 22-25, 2010

Jefferson’s Monticello and ’s Montpelier
September 24–27, 2009

Santa Fe and the Arts of Historic New Mexico
September 17-21, 2008

The Washingtons' World: Mount Vernon
April, 2008

Virginia: The First 200 Years
November 1, 2007

Pittsburgh: Decorative Arts and Architecture from
George Washington to Fallingwater
April 19-22, 2007

The Berkshires: Retreat and Escape
October 26-29, 2006

Mr Franklin and His Philadelphia,
April 6-9, 2006

Northern California's Art and Architecture
November 3-6, 2005

Baltimore: Filled with Collections and Fabulous Architecture
March 10-13, 2005

The Boston Whirlwind: Just About Everything in Boston
November 4-7, 2004

The Art and Architecture of Middle Tennessee
April 1-4, 2004
Nashville, TN

Discover Milwaukee with the Trust,
Milwaukee, WI
September 19-22, 2002

Spring Symposium at Yale
New Haven, CT
March 21-24, 2002

The Decorative Arts of Norfolk, VA
Norfolk, VA
October 25-28, 2001

The Decorative Arts of Lancaster County
Lancaster, PA
April 26-29, 2001

Coastal North Carolina: A Grand Variety of Style
October 26 - 29, 2000

Annapolis Decorative Arts, Interiors, Landscape: New Research and Discoveries
April 13 - 16, 2000
Annapolis, MD

The Image of Early 19th-Century America: Interiors and Expressions
October 7 - 10, 1999
Cooperstown, NY

Treasures of Los Angeles: The Getty, The Huntington, The California Experience
March 11 - 14, 1999
Los Angeles, CA

Collections Study: Furniture, Ceramics and Silver at Historic Deerfield
October 22 - 25, 1998
Deerfield, MA

Furniture in Context
October 9 - 12, 1997
Newport, Rl

Behind the Changing Scene: Objects and Interiors in a New Light
March 13 - 16, 1997
Williamsburg, VA

Capital Collecting
March 12 - 15, 1998
Washington, DC

Celebrating Cleveland, 1796 - 1996
September 26 - 29, 1996
Cleveland, OH

Charleston: Apex of the 18th-Century
March 7 - 10, 1996
Charleston, SC

New England Collectors: Their Collections, Houses and Influence
October 12 - 15,1995
Danvers, MA

Treasures in Philadelphia
April 6 - 9, 1995
Philadelphia, PA

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PAST STUDY TRIPS ABROAD

Flanders to Cologne with TEFAF, the Famous Maastricht Antique Fair, Spring 2010

The Glories of Poland: Cracow to Warsaw, Fall 2009

STA 2009: Portugal, Fall 2008

The Glory of the Habsburgs, Fall 2007

The Grand Tour II: Port to Port, Venice to Genoa via Florence, Fall 2006

The Grand Tour to Rome, Naples, Pompeii and Herculaneum, Fall 2005

Witnessing the Baltics and the Impact of the Hanseatic League, Fall 2004
Stockholm, Tallinn & St. Petersburg

Berlin, Potsdam, Wittenberg, Dresden and Prague

Paris and the South of France: In the Footsteps of Jefferson, April 2002

Study Trips Abroad to London & Bath, June 2000


PAST NEW YORK ANTIQUES WEEKENDS

January 2009 Super Exciting V.I.P. Antiques Weekend

January 2008 Antiques Weekend in New York City

January 2007 Antiques Weekend in New York City

January 2006 Antiques Weekend in New York City

January 2004 Weekend Brings Members the Best of New York's Antiques Week

January 2003 We Took Manhattan!

January 2002 New York Glitters in January for VIP Weekend

January 2001 Trust Visit to New York Antiques Week

 

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