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SUMMARY:Zoom Rental | The Restoration of Bath’s Assembly Rooms with Connolly and Wellingham
DESCRIPTION:Preserving History: The Restoration of Bath’s Assembly Rooms \nManaged by the National Trust since 1931\, the Assembly Rooms hold a special place in Bath’s history and culture\, offering contemporary visitors an immersive experience into the Georgian era. Join Royal Oak as we hear from Connolly Wellingham Architects\, the architectural design and conservation studio\, appointed by the National Trust to assist with interior design and conservation of this significant showpiece\, ahead of the Trust’s resumption of management of the site. The project will assess the feasibility of revealing currently hidden layers of historic fabric throughout the Assembly Rooms and seek to tell a wider\, immersive story of Bath’s society heyday. \nBuilt during the Georgian era and designed by the esteemed architect John Wood the Younger\, the Assembly Rooms have long been at the heart of fashionable society. Completed in 1771\, these rooms were hailed as “the most noble and elegant” in the UK\, hosting a vibrant array of social gatherings and events. The restoration project includes initiatives that promise to transform the Assembly Rooms into a true reflection of their Georgian heritage. Among these initiatives is the replacement of the modern staircases with a unique Georgian-inspired design. Additionally\, the re-gilding of mirrors and marbling of columns will restore the room’s opulence and grandeur\, while new front doors will welcome guests with a touch of splendor. Removal of infill and installation of new light wells will flood the area with natural light\, recreating the original entrance experience. Also\, upgrading to slimline double-glazed windows will ensure both preservation and comfort\, allowing guests to enjoy the Assembly Rooms in all seasons. Join us as we delve into the restoration journey\, combining historical preservation with modern innovation to breathe new life into this iconic Georgian landmark. \nFergus Connolly is from Lancashire and studied architecture at Glasgow School of Art and London Metropolitan University. Fergus undertook the SPAB’s Lethaby Scholarship in 2008 and was awarded first prize in the Georgian Group’s Architectural Drawing Competition (presented by HRH The Prince of Wales)\, later that year. From 2003-2006\, Fergus worked for Martin Stancliffe Architects. In the role of Cathedral Surveyors\, the practice undertook St. Paul’s Cathedral’s largest phase of repair and reordering since it’s completion in 1711. At FCBStudios\, Fergus spent 8 years as church architect to Grade 1 listed Bath Abbey\, and project architect for The Footprint Project. The project secured £10.5m of HLF support to repair and stabilise the collapsing Abbey floor. During his time at FCBS he also worked on Shrewsbury Flax Mill\, Windsor Castle’s Visitor Masterplan and new conservation studio for the Royal Collection. He authored The Burrell Collection’s Statement of Significance. Fergus lectures and tutors across the UK on vernacular architecture. \nCharles Wellingham grew up in Somerset and studied architecture at University of Plymouth and the University of the West of England\, during which time his work was commended by the SPAB Philip Webb award and shortlisted for the RIBA President’s Silver Medal. During 6 years at FCBStudios\, Charlie was the project architect responsible for delivering the heritage led regeneration of Middleport Pottery in Stoke on Trent for the Prince’s Regeneration Trust. The site was built in 1888 and has been home to the Burleigh factory for 150 years. As well as securing the continuation of Burleigh’s craft\, the brief sought to strengthen the economic sustainability of the grade II* listed site by introducing additional complementary uses\, education spaces and visitor facilities. The refurbishment was awarded a national RIBA award\, a Civic Trust AABC Conservation Award and a Europa Nostra Prize for European Cultural Heritage Conservation Excellence. In 2014\, he rejoined FCBS and was responsible for leading the design team overseeing the creative reuse of the former Guildhall court rooms in the heart of medieval Bristol. This included securing Planning and Listed Building Consent for the extension and conversion of the Grade I and II* listed buildings into a hotel complex. Charlie is an associate lecturer at the UWE Architecture School and guest critic in the Part 2 Conservation Studio. Charlie was elected to join the Conservation Register in 2016.
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/zoom-rental-the-restoration-of-baths-assembly-rooms-with-connolly-and-wellingham/
LOCATION:Zoom Live\, Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Rental
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SUMMARY:Zoom Rental | In the Footsteps of Jane Austen: A Writer's Love of Bath with Devoney Looser
DESCRIPTION:Lyme Park \nIn the Footsteps of Jane Austen: A Writer’s Love of Bath \nBath\, England\, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was a fraught\, fascinating place\, not only because of the supposed healing powers of its waters\, but because of its notoriety as a marriage market. The popular spa town was imagined as a magical destination. Day-to-day life there\, however\, could fall short of the ideal\, as Jane Austen’s fiction so vividly describes. Emma’s jilted Mr. Elton finds himself an equally odious wife there\, with shocking speed. Persuasion’s heroine Anne Elliot\, we’re told\, “disliked Bath.” Her sour older sister mistakenly predicts that “nobody will want” Anne in Bath\, but there Anne eventually does find herself in love and beloved (again). \n\nIn Northanger Abbey\, heroine Catherine Morland and her circle hope Bath will supply the “adventures” she lacks in her home village. Catherine isn’t disappointed\, although her early experiences involve days of “looking at everybody and speaking to no one\,” and many of the friends she makes prove false ones. Thanks to these enduring stories\, scenes\, and characters\, today’s Bath has become a destination city for “Janeites”\, who retrace the Austen’s steps in Assembly Rooms\, concert halls\, and the famous Pump Room. \nSewing table in Boudoir at Saltram ©National Trust Images Andreas von Einsiedel \n\nBut what was Bath really like for a young\, unmarried woman in this era\, whether in search of adventure\, authorship\, marriage\, love\, or all four? Few letters survive from Jane Austen during the time she lived in Bath from 1801-05. Scholars also debate whether she was happy or miserable. \n\nIn her lecture\, Devoney Looser will revisit the question of Austen’s happiness in Bath focusing on the years leading up to the Regency period. She will show Bath’s many attractions and obstacles\, as seen not only through the famous novelist’s eyes\, but in the accounts of other writers who visited during this transformational era. \nDevoney Looser\, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University\, is the author or editor of 11 books\, most recently the biography Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters\, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës (Bloomsbury US\, 2022). She is also the author of The Making of Jane Austen (2017) and the editor of The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes (2019). Looser\, a Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar\, has published essays in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, Salon\, Slate\, TLS\, and The Washington Post. Her series of 24\, 30-minute lectures on Austen is available through The Great Courses and Audible. Her next book\, Wild for Austen\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2025. In addition to being a quirky book nerd\, she plays roller derby under the name ‘Stone Cold Jane Austen’.
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/zoom-rental-in-the-footsteps-of-jane-austen-a-writers-love-of-bath-devoney-looser/
LOCATION:Zoom Recording\, Virtual\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zoom Rental | ‘Outsiders’ and the English Country House with Adrian Tinniswood
DESCRIPTION:Rock garden with rhododendrons at Cragside\, Northumberland \n‘Outsiders’ and the English Country House \nAt the beginning of the 20th century\, the owners of Britain’s stately homes reveled in the halcyon days of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went hand in hand with duty and honour. The ancestral seats of ancient nobility stood cheek by jowl next to the palaces of Jewish bankers (Waddesdon Manor) and Indian princes (Elveden). Before World War I\, Britain was a place where dukes and duchesses mixed with chorus-line dancers who had turned into aristocratic society hostesses. It was a world where self-made millionaires who had been raised in the slums of Manchester and Birmingham\, or whose family were farmers\, owned glorious country houses (Craagside). It was a world where Americans who restored and transformed English country houses (Hever Castle) were received in the highest social circles in Britain. Historian Adrian Tinniswood\, OBE\, will explore the English country house during this brief golden age\, when stately homes in Britain were at their most opulent. He will illustrate and explain how for the privileged few—not born into nobility or an aristocratic lineage—life in the country house during this period was the best life of all. \nAdrian Tinniswood OBE\, studied English and Philosophy at Southampton University and was awarded an MPhil at Leicester University. He has acted as a consultant to the National Trust and the Heritage Lottery Fund. He is currently Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Buckingham and Visiting Fellow in Heritage and History at Bath Spa University. He has lectured at several Universities both in the US and UK\, including the University of Oxford and the University of California\, Berkeley. He is the author of 16 books on architectural and social history including His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren; By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London; The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars; Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household and Noble Ambition: The Rise and Fall of the English Country House. Tinniswood was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to heritage.
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/zoom-rental-outsiders-and-the-english-country-house-with-adrian-tinniswood/
LOCATION:Zoom Recording\, Virtual\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zoom Rental | Designs for Living: Noël Coward at Home with Patrick Monahan
DESCRIPTION:Designs for Living: Noël Coward at Home \nNoël Coward (1899-1973) was famously called “The Master” by Lord Louis Mountbatten for his talents as an actor\, writer\, composer\, singer\, director\, producer\, and painter. However\, Coward was also an exceptional house designer who created elegant environments for himself and in which to entertain his celebrity friends: from the English countryside to the Swiss Alps\, and the hills of Jamaica. As a rising playwright of Drawing Room Comedies in the 1930s\, he engaged society decorator Syrie Maugham—famous for her all-white rooms—to design airy\, art-filled spaces which were fitting for his theatrical family\, such as Gertrude Lawrence and Ivor Novello. Coward’s 1932 comedy play Design for Living\, starring himself\, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne\, faithfully captures this elegant avant-garde look in its stage surroundings. At the same time\, Coward owned a half-timbered Tudor manor house in Kent\, called Goldenhurst Farm\, where he entertained guests with legendary weekend parties far from the prying eye of the London press. Coward emerged from World War II as well known English institution and carried his brand as a British bon viveur around the world. In London\, he stayed in a suite at the Savoy Hotel\, directing Elaine Stritch in his musical comedy Sail Away\, playing in the downstairs theater. \nIn 1956\, he moved his residency from England and built in Switzerland\, a chalet\, named Chalet Coward\, at Les Avants\, near Montreux. There he hosted the cream of Hollywood\, Broadway\, and the West End who regularly visited—including Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton\, Audrey Hepburn\, Sophia Loren\, and Peter O’Toole. Finally\, Coward built his favorite and last home—two villas in Jamaica: a large guest house\, called Blue Harbor where he entertained friends like the Queen Mother\, as well as a small cottage\, called Firefly\, just for himself. On the 125th anniversary of Noël Coward’s birth\, join Country Life and Vanity Fair contributor Patrick Monahan as he explores and illustrated Coward’s life at home. He will explain how the places in which Coward chose to live influenced his most beloved plays and songs. He will illustrate some of Coward’s many houses and tell stories from Coward’s life\, many he heard directly from Coward’s friends\, like Elaine Stritch. \nPatrick Monahan\, is a writer and independent art advisor\, specializing in British paintings\, drawings\, and sculpture from the 18th 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. His 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.
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/zoom-rental-designs-for-living-noel-coward-at-home-with-patrick-monahan/
LOCATION:Zoom Recording\, Virtual\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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