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BGC Symposium, Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Formation, Innovation, and Legacy: Thomas Hope and English Regency Design
The symposium lluminates Hope’s multiple roles as a designer, patron,
and author with a passion for the antique. The exhibition demonstrates his singular
contributions to architecture, interior decoration, furniture, metalwork, and costume
design in Regency England. This symposium further examines the interpretation of
ancient Greece and Rome by architects, designers, and writers of the late 18th and early
19th centuries. Distinguished scholars will address Thomas Hope’s legacy and related
themes, such as the Society of Dilettanti; Percier and Fontaine and the French Empire
style; and the drawings of antiquarian and designer C. H. Tatham. Speakers include Barry
Bergdoll, John Hardy, Jason Kelly, Tim Knox, Kenneth Lapatin, Tessa Murdoch, Tania
Buckrell Pos, Robin Middleton, Nina Stritzler-Levine, and David Watkin.