Special Private Preview Tour of Charleston (Two Days/Two Nights)

March 12-14

Charleston in Perspective
You are invited to come to Charleston two days prior to the Forum for a specially designed 'preview' tour to set the stage for our 15th year of the Forum and to showcase Charleston as the appropriate location for The Forum's outstanding program of our country's leading art and antiques specialists.

This tour will include two nights at The Mills House Hotel, an architectural tour in the historic district, and will feature an 18th century plantation day as we visit both Middleton Place and Drayton Hall Plantations with a luncheon at Middleton Place, plus the requisite libations and sustenance! A visit completely privately arranged, informal and fun, we hope you can be with us for this special visit. Space is limited, so please send your reservations in poste-haste.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012

9:00am-5:00pm

Registration: Old Courtroom at the Confederate
Home and College, 23 Chalmers Street

1:00-4:00pm

Optional Tours
•Strolling Down Church Street
(Walking tour departing from 23 Chalmers Street)
Ralph O. Harvard III, Antiquarian, Designer
Ralph Harvard, Inc., New York
'Stroll Down Church Street' with the inimitable architectural historian and raconteur Ralph Harvard. This swift-stride walking tour will traverse a street where some of Charleston's most famous, as well as infamous citizens resided, often in close proximity to each other. Charleston's rich architectural fabric and interiors within the original walled city will be featured on this tour.

2:00-4:00pm

Optional Tours
•A Religion of Beauty: The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany
(Walking tour departing from 23 Chalmers Street)
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, American Decorative Arts Curator,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In this rare chance to see Charleston's treasured Tiffany stained glass windows in a most interesting light, Ms. Frelinghuysen will place these works in context with L.C. Tiffany's artistic career, including the technical aspects of his achievement as well as the various themes of his work, including his devotion to nature.

2:00-4:00pm

Optional Tours
•Off the Wall in Charleston: Examining Historic Wallpaper Samples from Colonial Williams and The Charleston Museum
(Tour departs from The Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting Street)
J. Grahame Long, Curator, The Charleston Museum
Margaret B. Pritchard, Curator of Prints, Maps, and Wallpapers, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Gather at The Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting Street at John Street, for a first-hand look at Wallpapers from the Collections of Colonial Williamsburg and The Charleston Museum. Ms. Pritchard and Mr. Long will take a close look at what America's early residents chose to embellish their domestic rooms, public and private. Study the themes that style-setters of their day preferred as the decoration of choice.

6:00-7:00pm

Registration: Old Courtroom, 23 Chalmers Street

Keynote Address and Reception with
Patrick Baty, Papers & Paints, Ltd
The Paint Detective or a Tale of Two Bridges

Introduction by the Forum Moderator:
J. Thomas Savage, Director of Museum Affairs, Winterthur Museum and County Estate

Proprietor of the firm his father founded in 1960, Patrick Baty has become one of the most sought-after paint archeology experts in his field. He has completed such distinguished projects as The Royal Albert Hall, Sir John Soane's Museum, Windsor Castle and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, to name only a few. This will be the first opportunity in the United States to hear Mr. Baty's perspective on his illustrious career.

Jean Helms, Founder and Chairman of The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum, with James Hervey-Bathurst, 2009 Keynote Speaker

THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012

9:00am

Registration: Old Courtroom at the Confederate
Home and College, 23 Chalmers Street

9:30-10:30am

A New World Imagined: The Art of the Americas Wing at Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston
Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Moor Cabot Chair, Art of The Americas,
Museum of Fine Arts Boston

10:45-11:45am

Founding Gardens: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature and the
Shaping of the American Nation
Andrea Wulf, author and Independent Scholar

2:00-3:00pm

Restoring Montpelier and the Legacy of James Madison
Michael Quinn, President, James Madison's Montpelier

3:15-4:15pm

Inspired by Nature: The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, American Decorative Arts Curator,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Charleston's many fine restaurants as well as evening cruises await your discovery, reservations are a must during this popular season.

Elizabeth Bradham and Marnie Chardon enjoy the picnic at Drayton Hall

FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012

9:00am

Registration: Old Courtroom at the Confederate
Home and College, 23 Chalmers Street

9:30-10:30am

Pigment in the Piedmont: Early Painted Furniture from North Carolina and Georgia
Dale L. Couch, Decorative Arts Curator, Georgia Museum of Art
June Lucas, Director of Research, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

10:45-11:45am

Printing Wallpaper: The Rapid Transfer of Style
Steve Larson, and Christopher Ohstrom,
Adelphi Paper Hangings, LLC, Sharon Springs, NY

A Most Colorful Collector: Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
J. Thomas Savage, Director of Museum Affairs, Winterthur Museum

The Latest Dish: America's Colorful Collectors: A Century of Ceramics Collecting in America from 1900 to the Present
Letitia Roberts, Independent Consultant, New York

Study Tour of Important Private Home, with hosts
J. Thomas Savage, Winterthur Museum
Ralph Harvard, III, Ralph Harvard, Inc.
Robert A. Leath, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
A once-in-a-lifetime chance to study the architectural details and stately features of the residence of one of Charleston's citizens with Architectural Historian and Interior Designer Ralph Harvard, III; Robert Leath, Chief Curator & President, Collections & Research, MESDA; and J. Thomas Savage, Director, Museum Affairs, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate.

This exclusive evening will conclude with an on-site private reception with cocktails and light fare.

For privacy reasons, the location of event will be disclosed to Connoisseur Ticket holders only.

SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012

Registration: Old Courtroom at the Confederate
Home and College, 23 Chalmers Street

9:30-10:30am

From the Ground Up: Creating an American Museum
David Houston, Director of Curatorial, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

10:45-11:45am

Hang it Up: Wall Treatments in the 18th & Early 19th Centuries
Margaret B. Pritchard, Curator of Prints, Maps, and Wallpapers, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

2:00-4:00pm

Landscape Legacy Walking Tour
(Tour departing from 23 Chalmers Street, followed by light reception)
Charleston Horticultural Society
Optional Tour (Please see special insert in this brochure material)