Sat Jan 19, 6:00 PM - Sat Jan 19, 7:00 PM

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139

Community: Miami

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Beyond skyscrapers and South Beach hotels what influence did Deco have on American homes? This lecture will look at three different homes as case studies to explore the regional manifestations of Deco in domestic architecture and interior design. Presented as part of Th

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Beyond skyscrapers and South Beach hotels what influence did Deco have on American homes? This lecture will look at three different homes as case studies to explore the regional manifestations of Deco in domestic architecture and interior design. Presented as part of The Wolfsonian’s Mark Mamolen program series on American homes.
Whitney Richardson is Assistant Curator at the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina. Previously, she was an Assistant Curator at The Wolfsonian in Miami Beach and co-curated the exhibition Deco: Luxury to Mass Market. She holds a M.Phil from Glasgow University in Scotland for the history of design and decorative arts. Shoshana Resnikoff is curator at The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach, where she focuses on twentieth-century American design and material culture. She co-curated the exhibition Deco: Luxury to Mass Market and is currently developing A Universe of Things: Micky Wolfson Collects, which will open in November of 2019. She received her MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. Silvia Barisione is curator at The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach since 2011. Previously she has been founding curator at the Wolfsoniana in Genoa, Italy. Her research focuses primarily on twentieth-century decorative arts and design and prewar Italian architecture. She has curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions. Recently she co-curated the Wolfsonian exhibitions Deco: Luxury to Mass Market and Made in Italy: MITA Textile Design 1926-1976.

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