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SUMMARY:Entertaining in Style: Nancy Astor and Nancy Lancaster
DESCRIPTION:When hosting in-person events\, Royal Oak must comply with state and local COVID policies.  \n \n\nTwo American born women and cousins\, politician Nancy Astor and interior designer Nancy Lancaster\, transformed 20th century British culture with their inspiration in creating the English country house style\, as well as their gracious and sophisticated method of entertaining.  Their descendants\, designer Jane Churchill and photographer Emily Astor will discuss their relatives and show previously unseen family photographs from Cliveden\, Nancy Astor’s country house\, as well as several homes owned by Nancy Lancaster. \nTheir talk\, based on their new book Entertaining in Style: Nancy Astor and Nancy Lancaster showcases both Nancy’s inspirations for the perfect entertainment.They will highlight glamourous menus from the private Mirador recipe collection (Nancy’s Virginia family estate) as well as from materials from Astor’s and Lancaster’s archives. \nBoth Lancaster and Astor gave parties with superb food combining classic English dishes with American Southern classics such as fried chicken and Pullman Salad. Churchill and Astor will also illustrate interiors and table settings featuring the family’s original china\, silver\, and décor. From menu cards\, table diagrams\, and private letters featuring witty repartee from Lancaster and Astor\, the authors were able to reconstruct who came for dinner as well as what they ate. \nJoin Royal Oak at a presentation as we explore the legacy of two great women who left a lasting mark on English social history and style.  As Emily Astor said\, “both Nancys disrupted English menus just as much as they revolutionised women’s rights in politics and the workplace. But they did so with style\, glamour\, and buckets of laughter.” The presentation will be followed by Q&A with Carl Raymond\, host of The Gilded Gentleman History Podcast(thegildedgentleman.com) \nJane Churchill\nJane Churchill\, of Jane Churchill interiors\, is the great great niece of Nancy Astor and great niece of Nancy Lancaster. Emily Astor\, photographer and author\, is Nancy Astor’s granddaughter. Carl Raymond\, lecturer and writer is the host of The Gilded Gentleman history podcast\, which focuses on the social and culinary history of America’s Gilded Age\, France’s Belle Epoque and England’s late Victorian and Edwardian eras. \n​ \nIN-PERSON\nFriday\, April 22 | 6:00 p.m. (ET) \nThe General Society Library\, NYC\nReception & book signing following\n$35 members; $40 non-members and guests \nRENT\nFrom Saturday\, April 23 to Wednesday\, May 4 \nRent the recorded lecture to watch at your leisure\n$20 members; $25 non-members and guests
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/entertaining-in-style-nancy-astor-and-nancy-lancaster/
LOCATION:The General Society Library\, 20 W. 44th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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SUMMARY:Awaking the Sleeping Beauty: Edward Burne-Jones and his Art
DESCRIPTION:When hosting in-person events\, Royal Oak must comply with current state and local laws regarding vaccine card requirement to gain admittance.  \n\n Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898)\, the son of a humble Birmingham picture framer\, became perhaps the most exceptional and versatile figure of the English Aesthetic movement. He excelled as a painter\, draughtsman\, designer of furniture\, stained glass\, and tapestry\, and succeeded in spreading his reputation well beyond England to the Continent and America. Nowhere is this more evident than in Burne-Jones’s Briar Rose paintings\, an extraordinary series of works\, which occupied the artist for more than half his lifetime. In 1864\, Burne-Jones was commissioned to design a set of ceramic tiles for artist Myles Birket Foster’s house\, The Hill\, in Witley\, Surrey. The theme was to be the Briar Rose\, the “Sleeping Beauty” story derived from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s 1842 poem\, The Day-dream\, which evoked England’s medieval past. \n“She sleeps\, nor dreams\, but ever dwells\,” wrote Tennyson\, “a perfect form in perfect rest.” These lines perfectly paralleled the Aesthetic aims of Burne-Jones\, and of his friend William Morris\, to create “Art for art’s sake”—an ideal object\, with no greater purpose than its own beauty\, displayed within a setting distinctly suited to itself. These extraordinary\, vibrant tiles\, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum\, evidently pleased Burne-Jones\, as he returned to the theme in 1869\, with three small-format Briar Rose paintings. Four years later\, Burne-Jones revisited the subject yet again with a larger scale series of paintings for the saloon at Buscot Park\, Faringdon. \nJoin Country Life and Vanity Fair contributor Patrick Monahan to discover the Sleeping Beauties of one of Victorian England’s artistic geniuses—paintings which echo a distant\, enchanted past. \nPatrick Monahan\nPatrick Monahan is a writer and independent art advisor\, specializing in British paintings\, drawings\, and sculpture from the eighteenth century to the present. A native New Yorker\, he is consulted by collectors and museums on both sides of the Atlantic\, including the Museo de Arte de Ponce\, Puerto Rico.\nHis written work appears in Country Life and Vanity Fair\, as well as in the exhibition catalogue “Flaming June: the making of an icon\,” Leighton House\, London\, 2016. He holds an Mphil from the University of Cambridge as well as a BA from the University of Chicago\, both in art history. He lives and works in New York City\, with regular visits to London. \nInstagram: @thepatrickmonahan \n\nLIVE\nWednesday May 16\, | 6:00 p.m. (ET)\nThe General Society Library\, NYC\n$35 members; $40 non-members and guests \n\nRENT\nFrom Thursday\, May 19 to Monday\, May 30 \nRent the recorded lecture to watch at your leisure\n$20 members; $25 non-members and guests
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