2011 HISTORIC SEATTLE BUNGALOW FAIR

2011 FAIR AND LECTURES FOCUS ON THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT

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14th Annual Historic Seattle Bungalow Fair and Arts & Crafts lectures Show and Sale of Antiques, Contemporary Furniture and Decorative Arts Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Avenue at Seneca Street, Seattle Sat., Sept. 24, 2011 from 10am to 5pm and Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011 from 10am to 4pm Tickets: $5 to $10 Weekend pass (includes entry to fair and all lectures): $25 Historic Seattle members; $35 general public

The Bungalow Fair is the premier event of its kind in the Pacific Northwest, and is Historic Seattle's most popular yearly offering. Town Hall Seattle once again provides a warm and inviting setting for a show and sale of antiques and contemporary work by fifty of the nation's leading designers and craftspeople in metal, tile, glass, textiles, ceramics, and lighting. The Fair is an opportunity to learn about early twentieth century architecture and design, and to ask questions and get answers from knowledgeable people in the field. It is also an opportunity for those who have been won over by Arts & Crafts period furniture and decoration to be visually stimulated and to think about ways in which to incorporate the many old and new offerings presented here into their homes and talk to architects and interior designers about remodeling and new construction.

Arts & Crafts Lectures Co-sponsored by the Seattle Art Museum Registration for each lecture: $5 to $10 The Victorian Roots of the Arts & Crafts Movement Ulysses Grant Dietz, Senior Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts, Newark Museum Ulysses Dietz focuses on what Gustav Stickley himself and most of his admirers don?t want to acknowledge--that much of the intellectual and aesthetic foundation of the Arts & Crafts movement was already in place by the 1870s and 1880s. The much-misused perspective of Charles Eastlake, the fascination with Japan, the focus on craftsmanship and aesthetic unity of object and interior—all of these are part of the Victorian world of the high Gilded Age. Presenting Victorian decorative arts objects, Dietz will shed light on this largely-ignored truth, and track the elitism of early Arts & Crafts ideals as they were democratized into the middle-class ethos of early 20th century America.

Ulysses Grant Dietz has been curator of Decorative Arts/Senior Curator at The Newark Museum since 1980, where he has overseen over 100 exhibitions and was instrumental in the restoration and reinterpretation of the 1885 Ballantine House adjoining the museum. In 2004, he lectured on that project and on 300 years of silver in the American home at Historic Seattle?s Spring Design Arts series at the Seattle Art Museum. Mr. Dietz is author of several exhibition catalogs, including those focusing on the Museum?s art pottery and nineteenth-century furniture collections. The Newark Museum hosted the first major exhibition on Gustav Stickley in fall 2010 and Mr. Dietz developed this lecture for its symposium, Honest and Beautiful: Gustav Stickley and the Arts & Crafts Home in America.

Archibald Knox: In the Ministry of the Beautiful Liam O'Neill Co-Sponsored by the Royal Oak Foundation Archibald Knox's (1864-1933) unique style made him one of the foremost artist/designers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A seminal figure in both the Arts & crafts Movement and Art Nouveau, by 1900, he, like Charles Rennie Mackintosh, was at the pinnacle of his career. What Mackintosh was to furniture, Knox was to metalwork and jewelry. Knox produced over 400 metalwork and jewelry designs for Liberty & Co. (London and Paris). These were to make him their most popular and prolific designer in their new "Celtic" range, "Cymric" (silver) and "Tudric" (pewter), yet he remained a "ghost designer" as his work was manufactured under the Liberty brand. While working as a designer, he was living an almost monastic life in the isolated village of Sulby, on the Isle of Man in the heart of the British Isles.

It was the natural beauty and traditions of his homeland that were to be his inspiration. The rapid growth of the tourist industry brought many British industrialists to the Isle of Man where they built their summer homes, many of them in the Arts & crafts style. Baillie Scott, a contemporary of Knox, lived on the Isle of Man for 12 years (1889-1901) and from there he designed Blackwell, one of Britain's finest surviving Arts & crafts houses. Knox was an elusive, ephemeral character whose genius lay in his inner imagination and individuality. His life is beautifully described on his grave stone, ‘Archibald Knox, Artist, humble servant of God in the ministry of the beautiful.'

Liam O'Neill has a Bachelor's degree in Theology from the University of Ottawa and an MA in Celtic Christianity from Lampeter, University of Wales. He has worked in education as a teacher and lecturer for over thirty years and has a passionate interest in the life and work of Archibald Knox. In 2006 he founded the Archibald Knox Society (www.archibaldknoxsociety.com) of which he is currently Chairman. The society's mission is to promote the legacy of Archibald Knox both nationally and internationally, presenting the Isle of Man as an ‘Island for an Art Lover’

Five Outrageous Women of the Arts & Crafts Movement Anne Stewart O?Donnell Sex! Scandal! Well, maybe a little. But even when they were perfect ladies, these remarkable women found ways to develop their considerable talents, made careers for themselves at a time when most “respectable” women did not work outside the home, and exerted a broad influence on other craftsmen and thinkers. Anne Stewart O?Donnell explores the lives and work of five females who shaped the Arts & crafts movement: Irene Sargent, editor of The Craftsman; stained glass artist, book designer, and philanthropist Sarah Wyman Whitman; ceramist and teacher Adelaide Alsop Robineau; William Morris?s daughter and able partner, May Morris; and Alice Moore Hubbard, writer, feminist, and wife of Elbert Hubbard, founder of the Roycroft community.

Independent scholar and editor Anne Stewart O?Donnell received her Masters in the History of Decorative Arts through the Smithsonian / Parsons program in Washington, DC, writing her thesis on Arts & crafts greeting cards. Formerly the editor in chief of Style 1900 magazine, she has written and lectured widely on many aspects of the Arts & Crafts movement. Her books include Motawi Tileworks: Contemporary Handcrafted Tiles in the Arts & Crafts Tradition and the recently published biography C.F.A. Voysey: Architect, Designer, Individualist.

The Bungalow Fair and Arts & Crafts lectures are co-sponsored by 4Culture and Civic Partners Fund of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. Promotional partners are Style 1900 and Old House Media Group. Accommodations for speakers are provided by The Inn at Virginia Mason.

Associated Event Ravenna: Home Sweet Bungalow Presented in partnership with Seattle Architecture Foundation Houses, gardens and selected interiors with on-site docents showcase why this classic style never goes out of fashion. Tour is self-guided with an illustrated brochure and lasts approximately two hours depending on your pace. Tour begins at Roosevelt High School 1410 NE 66th St. $30 advance or available at the Fair. Saturday 9/24 and Sunday 9/25 1 pm, 2 pm, 3:30 pm start times

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