Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Editor’s Note: This week’s post is by our guest contributor, Lary Shaffer. I discovered Lary via the Internet earlier this year, and immediately came to respect his almost encyclopedic knowledge of Morris chair design. He’s quite a character as well; a former filmmaker and college professor – a “recovering academic” as he puts it – [...]
A Tale of Two Morris Chairs
Tags: 19th century furniture design, 19th century interior design, furniture manufacture and design, Morris chair, William Morris
Posted in FDR Suite Contents, FDR Suite Renovations, FDR at Harvard, Harvard History, Late 19th Century Architecture, Late 19th Century Interior Design | 2 Comments »
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
It all started so simply. Last fall while photographing the FDR Suite, I noticed some curious bits of something dangling behind the large radiator in the main study. What could they be? Those infamous Harvard dust motes again? Ah no! Historical clues, perhaps? The mind raced…. in vain. Most turned out to be prosaic modern [...]
Piecing Together FDR’s Rooms, Literally
Tags: 19th Century American Art, 19th century interior design, 19th century wallpaper, FDR at Harvard, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kari Pei, Michael Weishan, Victorian interior design, Victorian wallpaper, Wolf-Gordon
Posted in FDR Suite Contents, FDR Suite Donations, FDR Suite Renovations, FDR at Harvard, Franklin D. Roosevelt Life & History, Harvard History, Harvard Student Life, Late 19th Century Architecture, Social Life at Harvard | No Comments »
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