FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2
11:00 a.m.
BRUNCH AND LECTURE
Keith and Chippy Irvine
Life in Decoration

Legendary Interior Designers Keith Irvine and Chippy Irvine will share their design ideas and inspirations all captured in their magnificent new book, Keith Irvine A Life in Decoration. He is the founder of one of New York’s most celebrated design firms, Irvine & Fleming. His played down style assembles great art, architecture and furniture with knowledge, originality and drama. Over the years Keith Irvine’s client list has included many amazing names among the rich and famous, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassiss, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and so many more. During her years in high style interior design, Chippy Irvine has written more than a dozen books on topics including The English Room, Brunschwig and Fils Style, and Shades of Country: Designing a Life of Comfort. Her concepts of Farmhouse, Grand Country, and Cottage reflect her originality of design, dedicated to grace and comfort of living in the country. Chippy’s talents encompass the worlds of fashion designer, television personality and successful author. Chippy has given lectures across the country, including the Smithsonian Museum, design centers in New York, Boston Chicago and Houston. She has also been a contributing editor for Art & Antiques magazine. Reservations required.

SATURDAY, MARCH 1
11:00 a.m.
BRUNCH AND LECTURE
Moran Wheelock
Dancing with Nature

Morgan Wheelock is the President and founder of Morgan Wheelock Incorporated with offices in Boston, Massachusetts, and Palm Beach, Florida. Since 1978, he has directed the firm’s growth and increasing reputation in master planning and design. Prior to founding his own firm, he was Vice-President and Principal at Sasaki Associates, where he created the firm’s international reputation in tourism, community design, and recreational land use planning. Mr. Wheelock is responsible for design conception and is active in the design direction of all projects. In addition to his professional work, he is involved in Landscape Architectural education through his work with the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Board’s Panel of Experts, and the Landscape Architecture Advisory Council of the University of Texas. Since 1987, Mr. Wheelock has lectured widely on the theme of harmonious utilization of the land for mankind in a balanced respectful manner. Among the prestigious institutions inviting him to lecture are the Yale School of Architecture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts. And The Groundbreaking of the United States Armed Forces Memorial, Caen, France. He and his wife Judy, are also the proud owners of Arthur, a Champion Norwich Terrier.

SATURDAY, MARCH 1
BRUNCH AND LECTURE
Tom Savage
Y'All Are Not From Around Here, Are You?
Expatriate Charleston Objects

Tom Savage is Director of Museum Affairs for The Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, the former Delaware home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), the avid antiques collector and horticulturist. In this capacity, he oversees the collections, public programs and marketing and communications departments. From November 1998 until August 2005, Mr. Savage was Senior Vice President and Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art for North and South America where he directed The Sotheby’s American Arts Course

In 1995, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Royal Oak Foundation, the American Alliance with the National Trust of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Decorative Arts Trust, The Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation and is a member of the Furniture History Society having, in 1990, presented the society’s annual lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Mr. Savage served as a presidential appointee to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House from 1993 to 2002. He is a member of the board of directors of the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston.

In 1981, Mr. Savage was the recipient of a National Museum Act Internship to serve as Acting Curator of Historic Charleston Foundation and was subsequently appointed (September 1981) as that institution’s first full-time curator. Promoted to the position of Curator and Director of Museums for Historic Charleston, in this capacity he directed the foundation’s collections and historic properties including the nationally important Nathaniel Russell House (1808), the Aiken-Rhett House (1818-1858), and Charleston’s oldest public building, The Powder Magazine (1712).

He is the author The Charleston Interior, published by Legacy Publications, Greensboro, North Carolina (1995) and articles in the Magazine Antiques, the Chipstone Foundation’s American Furniture, Sotheby’s Art at Auction, and Southern Accents. He contributed the essay on the Carolina Low Country to Colonial Williamsburg’s recent volume Southern Furniture 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection published by Abrams (1997). Mr. Savage was co-curator for the landmark exhibition “In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad 1740-1860” held at The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, in 1999. For the exhibition catalog published by The University of South Carolina Press, he catalogued the furniture and silver and co-authored two essays.

Mr. Savage has lectured frequently in this country and in England on Charleston architecture, interiors, and British and southern decorative arts.