BIFMO-FHS ONLINE COURSE – NOVEMBER 2025
From Regency to Modernism: British Furniture and Its Global Reach
5.30pm – 8pm (GMT); 12.30pm – 3pm (EST)
4, 11, 18, & 25 November 2025

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Join us on Zoom every Tuesday throughout November when three experts will consider the influence and interpretation of British furniture design abroad from 1800 to the 1970s. Focusing on influential figures such as Augustus Welby Pugin, Thomas Hope, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Daniel Cottier, the course will examine how they carried their aesthetic ideals abroad, as well as how international designers engaged with, adapted, and reinterpreted these creative influences within their own cultural contexts.
 

Here is an overview of the course programme:

• SESSION I – 4 November: Regency Resonances: British Furniture Style in France, Germany & the USA
  Peter M. Kenny: Regency Furniture Design and the Reception of the Antique in New York
  Dr Justine Gain: The hôtel de Monaco and William Hope: French interpretations of Regency design 1830-1850
  Serena Newmark: Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) Artistic and Technological Exchange Between Great Britain and Prussia
   
• SESSION II – 11 November: Pugin’s Role Beyond Britain: The Gothic Revival in European Contexts
  Dr Roderick O’Donnell: AWN Pugin, an Anglo-Frenchman
  Dr Gilles Maury: The A. W. N. Pugin-J-B. Bethune connection: furniture for a Gothic ideal
  Dr Bertrand de Royere: Early neogothic in Piedmont and the architecture
  and furnishing for king Charles Albert of Sardinia in the Royal houses (1831-1849)
   
• SESSION III – 18 November: Beyond Victorian England: The Global Reach of the Arts and Crafts Movement
  Dr Imogen Hart: The English Arts and Crafts movement and its legacies
  Dr Monica Piera: The English Influence on Modernism in Barcelona
  Klara Nemeckova: From Glasgow to Dresden: Baillie Scott and Mackintosh for the Deutsche Werkstätten
   
• SESSION IV – 25 November: Global Modernism in the First Half of the 20th Century
  Max Donnelly: Furnishing the Gilded Age: Cottier & Co. in New York
  Dr Juliet Kinchin: Glasgow Style Furniture and Interiors in an International Context:
  The Mackintoshes and Cultural Exchange from Vienna to Moscow
  Prof. David Vélez Santamaría & Prof. Miguel Arango Marín: Silla Mariposa (1972-2025): local stories behind a plastic chair

Tickets may be bought for an individual session or for the entire course, but you will benefit from a discount if all four sessions are bought together. If you miss the live session, you will still be able to enjoy the event because each week is recorded and links to the recordings will be sent to ticketholders. These recordings will not be available to buy after the course has ended. FHS members and ECD members will benefit from a discount on all tickets. 

For further information and to purchase tickets please click here to travel straight to the relevant Eventbrite page. If you cannot visit the website or have any other questions, please email bifmo@furniturehistorysociety.org

DETAILS OF THE IMAGES ON THE BANNER ABOVE (from left to right): Detail of a pier table, attributed to Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), New York (1815-20) © Schrimsher Collection, Huntsville, Alabama. Mariposa chair designed by Óscar Darío Muñoz Giraldo (1973). Public domain. Clothes and umbrella stand designed by Gaspar Homar (c. 1906) © Gaspar Salinas Ramon, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. High backed oak chair designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1897-1900) © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Detail from a design by J-B Bethune, C. Idewalle for a drawing room table ( c. 1875) Album souvenir du baron Bethune, plate XIII, Société Saint-Augustin, Tournai, 1898. Detail from a book Illustration, Schinkel’s königl. preuss. Geheimen Raths und Ober-Baudirectors Möbel-Entwürfe. . . (The Furniture Designs of Schinkel, Royal Prussian Privy Council and Chief Building Director . . .), Chair, plate V, 1835-7. Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Public domain.