Hosted by the ICAA New England Chapter in partnership with the Harvard Music Association
Join Wheaton College professor R. Tripp Evans for an exploration of his latest book, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home, which examines the private worlds of four 鈥渃onfirmed bachelors鈥� 鈥� men whose homes defined American style from the Gilded to the Jazz Age. They include Charles L. Pendleton (1846-1904), the reclusive gambler who built one of his era鈥檚 collections of eighteenth-century furniture; renowned interior decorator Ogden Codman, Jr. (1863-1951), who inherited his ancestors鈥� vices along with their aristocratic pedigree; writer Charles H. Gibson, Jr. (1874-1954), who transformed his family鈥檚 Back Bay home into a personal literary shrine and monument to his own beauty; and Henry Davis Sleeper (1878-1934), who created his Eastern Point masterpiece, Beauport, for the love of his extended coterie of friends 鈥� a circle that included painter Cecilia Beaux, Harvard economist Piatt Andrew, and collector Isabella Stewart Gardner. The stories of these 鈥渟urprisingly domestic bachelors鈥� (as the press dubbed them) reveal the complicated depths beneath their homes鈥� brilliant surfaces.
Please join us for a wine & cheese reception and book signing following the lecture.
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