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DESCRIPTION:Tobias Locker will be coming to speak at the Françoise and\nGeo
 rges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and\nC
 ulture on Tuesday\, February 12\, 2013.  His talk is entitled\n“Paris—Pots
 dam—Paris: Gilt Bronzes ‘à la française’ in Prussia and the\nCirculation o
 f Knowledge.”\n\nTobias Locker is Lecturer in Art History at Saint Louis U
 niversity\, Madrid.  He received his M.A. in Art History from the Freie Un
 iversität\, Berlin\, and his Ph.D. in Art History from the Technische Univ
 ersität\, Berlin.  Trained as a cabinetmaker\, Locker’s work focuses on fu
 rniture and interior design in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe.
   He is currently preparing an essay entitled “Referring to the Historic B
 aroque: Franco Regime\, Classical and Neo-Baroque\,” for a forthcoming vol
 ume on The ‘Baroque’ in the Construction of a National Culture in Francois
 t Spain\, co-edited with Paula Barreiro-López and Carey Casten as a specia
 l issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.In 1749\, the Swiss-born decora
 tive sculptor Johann Melchior\nKambly (1718-84) copied a furniture ensembl
 e by the Parisian ébéniste Jean\nPierre Latz for the Prussian king\, featu
 ring rich gilt bronze mounts that were\nnot just recast but remodeled.  En
 couraged by this commission\, the\nentrepreneurial Kambly founded an offic
 ial ‘fabrique des bronzes dorés’ that\nbenefited from the knowledge and ex
 pertise of employees hired on a secret\nmission in Paris.  The firm’s lucr
 ative royal commissions included the\nfamous tortoiseshell furniture and a
 n entire wall-bound decoration of ‘bronze-doré’\nfor the dinner hall of th
 e town palace at Potsdam\, which are regarded as some\nof the most excepti
 onal pieces in the former royal residences of\nPotsdam-Sanssouci.  Althoug
 h well known during the eighteenth century\,\nKambly fell into oblivion ov
 er the years and his royal furniture—due to its\nhigh quality—was long tho
 ught to be French. Rediscovered as ‘genuine Prussian\nitems’ at the end of
  the nineteenth century\, Kambly’s works were copied by the\nfamous furnit
 ure maker Joseph-Émmanuel Zwiener at the request of the German\nEmperor Wi
 lliam II\, and exhibited at the World’s Fair in 1900.\n\nLocker’s talk wil
 l focus on the largely unknown working practice\nof this artisan enterpris
 e\, which comprised several workshops with various\nemployees.  The knowle
 dge transfer that occurred there exemplifies how the\nParisian fashions th
 at led the taste for luxury interiors among continental\nEuropean elites d
 uring much of the eighteenth century were adapted to their\nspecific needs
 .  By means of some distinguished bronzes\, it will be shown\nthat the Fre
 nch models that had once influenced Kambly in Potsdam found their\nway bac
 k to Paris\, leaving traces in the luxury furniture produced by François\n
 Linke more than 150 years later.Light refreshments will be served at 5:45 
 pm. The\npresentation will begin at 6:00 pm.RSVP is required.PLEASE NOTE t
 hat our Lecture Hall can only accommodate\na limited number of people\, so
  please come early if you would like to have a\nseat in the main room.  We
  also have overflow seating available\; all\nregistrants who arrive late w
 ill be seated in the overflow area.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Paris—Potsdam—Paris: Gilt Bronzes ‘à la franç
 aise’ in Prussia and the Circulation of Knowledge
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