HIG at the Met’s Rethought Period Rooms: Drinks and Discussion

Beyond CAA

Metropolitan Museum of Art

5:30 pm, Saturday, Feb. 18, 82nd and Fifth, NYC

5:30 pm meet sharp at the Great Hall Group Tour desk. We must enter as a group. CAA conference registration covers free admission to the Museum.

After the College Art Association Conference c…[Read more]

Symposium to Investigate Public Interiority
The School of Interior Architecture at the UT College of Architecture and Design is pleased to announce the Public Interiority Symposium + Exhibition.

Led by Liz Teston, associate professor, School of Interior Architecture, and others, the Public Interiority Symposium + Exhibition will be held in person…[Read more]

Conference: Privacy Matters. How Interiors make and break our Cities

Time: 20 Apr. – 21 Apr. 2023

Place: The Royal Danish Academy Organizer: The event is a joint venture of the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Academy – Center for Interior Studies, the Royal Danish Academy – Spatial Design (MA programme)…[Read more]

ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Research Forum: From Theatrical Stages to Domestic Interiors

Wednesday, 15 February 2023

17:00  18:00

ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network Research Forum:

From theatrical stages to domestic interiors: performance and decorative arts in the second half of the nineteenth-century, Paris and London – Dr. B…[Read more]

Colleagues & Clients: Women’s Roles in Frank Lloyd Wright’s ArchitectureCall for 2023 Conference Papers/The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s 2023 annual conference, Colleagues & Clients: Women’s Role in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture will explore the significant, but little examined role wom…[Read more]

New books on 19th-century interiors

A book event co-organized by the William Morris Society in the United States and the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians

Friday, February 24, 1 pm EST(10 am PST, 11 am MST, 12 noon CST, 6:00 pm GMT)

Andrea Wolk Rager, The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones (Paul…[Read more]

The SAH Historic Interiors Group invites session proposals on the theme of historic interiors for SAH 2024. The Historic Interiors Group (HIG) is an affiliate of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). One of the goals of HIG is to promote and advance scholarship in the history of interiors. HIG regularly endorses a session at the annual…[Read more]

CFP: Conference ‘Educating the Interior Designer’

The conference will take place in Ghent on September 8th, 2023.

Deadline for the call for papers is February 1st, 2023. See http://www.educating-the-interior-designer.com and pdf attachment.

The conference is directly related to a four year research project I’m supervising together with my collea…[Read more]

Historical Interiors and the Digital: The Possibilities and Limits of Virtual Reconstructions
Les intérieurs historiques et le numérique: possibilités et limites des reconstructions virtuelles pour la recherche

Online and in-person, Paris and Versailles, 17–18 November 2022

Colloque international organisé par Centre allemand d’histoire de l’ar…[Read more]

SAH HIG is looking for blog post ideas on member activities/travel/fieldwork in historic interiors for the HIG web site. Please forward ideas to Jennifer Komar Olivarez at jolivare@artsmia.org.

See Paula Lupkin’s initial post for “HIG in the Field” here:…[Read more]

Boiseries: Decoration and Migration from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Thursday 12th & Friday 13th January 2023 Camden Place, Chislehurst (Kent)

This two-day conference investigates the cultural and commercial migrations of French eighteenth-century boiseries from their places of production in Paris and the Bâtiments du Roi to the…[Read more]

Announcing the SAH Historic Interiors Group Education Roundtable, Friday, December 2nd, 12 to 1:30 pm EST

The HIG Education Roundtable will focus on best practices and new ideas for the teaching of history of interior courses.  The event will include short presentations from experienced educators about what works in the classroom as well as i…[Read more]

DEADLINE SOON: SAH Graduate Student Advisory Committee-organized virtual workshops on new methodological approaches in arch. history and related fields. Proposals due 10/24. Details here: https://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/graduate-student-programs/method-acts