Fall 2014 Events

FALL EVENTS

2014

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Whether you are an established design professional, new to the field, or just interested in exploring a career in interior design, NYSID has more than 50 courses to choose from.

Courses include: • Feng Shui and Color • Decorative Painting • Residential Lighting Design certificate • 3D Modeling and Rendering Using AutoCAD • Introduction to SketchUp • Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights

Online Courses: • Introduction to Interior Design • Textiles for Interiors • Color for Interiors • Basic Drafting

And much more!

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FALL EXHIBITION McMILLEN INC. NINE DECADES OF INTERIOR DESIGN Opening Reception

Tuesday, September 16, 6–8pm Exhibition on View: September 17 – December 5, 2014

A retrospective exhibition celebrating the 90th anniversary of the oldest continuously operating interior design firm in America. Photographs, original renderings, watercolors, maquettes, and archival materials will showcase the firm’s designs for a roster of clients that includes titans of industry, celebrities, and families of distinction.

NYSID Gallery, 161 East 69th Street, NYC Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am–6pm

Images: Opposite page top: Mrs. McMillen’s drawing room, 1928 Cover (clockwise from upper left): Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II’s Foyer, 1950’s /Historicist Exhibition Room, 1920’s / Ann Pyne’s Guest Cottage, 2007 / Cosmopolitan Club Stairs, 1930’s / Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Norris’s Porch, 1960’s

FALL EVENTS 2014 SEPTEMBER Thursday, September

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11am–4pm

Day of Design @ New York Art, Antique & Jewelry Show NYSID is organizing a Day of Design in conjunction with the New York Art, Antiques & Jewelry Show, which takes place at the Park Avenue Armory from September 17 – 21. Eric Cohler, Amy Lau, Carey Maloney, Markham Roberts, and Hunt Slonem will offer their personal takes on designing interiors, with bright ideas on how to mix art and furnishings, old and new, color and pattern, hi-tech and handcraft.

Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NYC. Free with admission to show; for more information visit www.nyfallshow.com.

OCTOBER Wednesday, October

1 6pm

Sandra Nunnerly is the founder of Sandra Nunnerly, Inc., a residential design firm with commissions around the world — from urban apartments to tropical getaways to country homes. With her tome, Interiors, she will present her inspiration for such projects as the design for a thoroughly modern home featuring site-specific commissions by world-class artists and a glamorous duplex that once belonged to Hollywood producer Jack Warner in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel.

There will be a reception and book signing immediately following the lecture.

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10:30am

Open House New York: The New Amsterdam Theater Tour Architect Hugh Hardy will give a tour of the landmark theater that sparked the revival of 42nd Street. Designed by architects Herts & Tallant, The New Amsterdam Theater is one of America’s few examples of the Art Nouveau style, with ornate interiors distinguished by intricately sculptured panels and painted allegorical murals. After years of neglect and a major restoration by Hardy Holtzman Pfeiffer, the theater reopened in 1997 and was a venue for Disney’s long-running The Lion King.

The event is in conjunction with NYSID’s exhibition Rescued, Restored, Reimagined: New York’s Landmarked Interiors, on view March 6 – April 24, 2015.

Wednesday, October

15

6pm

Panel Discussion: Much About McMillen Learn about what it was like to work at the first professional interior design firm from McMillen designers past and present: Ann Pyne and Luis Rey, presidents of McMillen Inc.; Tom Buckley, principal and founder of Brown Buckley Inc., who headed the design department at McMillen for more than 15 years; McMillen client Sarah E. Nash, a corporate director, private investor and philanthropist; and Elizabeth Pyne, who works in the McMillen Plus division, which caters to a younger clientele. It will be moderated by interior designer

Wednesday, October

22

6pm

Charlie Scheips — Elsie de Wolfe’s Paris: Frivolity Before the Storm Lecture and Book Signing Charlie Scheips — a well-known curator, art advisor, writer, and cultural historian — discusses his new book on the famous decorator Elsie de Wolfe. He will reveal his major new discoveries as well as rare or never-before published images that dispel myths about the designer and her fabled house, the Villa Trianon, in Versailles.

There will be a reception and book signing for Elsie de Wolfe’s Paris: Frivolity Before

Wednesday, October

29

the Arthur Satz Auditorium, 170 East 70 Street, NYC. Tickets: $12 general public $10 seniors and non-NYSID students NYSID students are free

To purchase tickets in advance, visit nysid.edu/publicprograms or call (212) 472-1500 x405.

NOVEMBER

Sandra Nunnerley — Interiors: Vision and Inspiration Lecture and Book Sigining

Sunday, October

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Thursday, November

13

6pm

Michael I. and Patricia M. Sovern Lecture on Design Barry Bergdoll – At Home in the Museum?: On the History and Actuality of Architecture on Display Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro professor of art history at Columbia University.

He was from 2007 to 2013 the Philip Johnson chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, where he continues to serve as a curator of architecture.

This lecture will examine the historical evolution of the modern practice of displaying architecture out of its original setting to create public debate and then look at some of the experiments Bergdoll undertook during his seven year tenure at MoMA, from projects on architecture and climate change to others on new models of providing housing in changing urban and financial landscapes.

There will be a reception immediately following the lecture.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP to rsvp@nysid.edu.

Wednesday, November

19 6pm

Krista Ninivaggi: 20/20/Future/Focus

Krista Ninivaggi, named Contract Magazine’s 2014 “Designer of the Year” and a “Young Gun” by Curbed.com, has worked at three influential firms in the first 12 years of her career: The Rockwell Group, AvroKo, and SHoP Architects, where she was the first director of the Interior Design Group. Each experience has profoundly influenced her opinions and methodologies of design. In this lecture, Ninivaggi will distill the lessons learned at each firm and how these created a road map in the founding of her own practice and newest

DECEMBER Monday, December

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6pm

Sally Henderson Memorial Lecture on Green Design Michael Murphy, MASS Design Group Michael Murphy is the executive director of MASS Design Group, which he co-founded with Alan Ricks in 2008. Since leading the design and construction of the critically acclaimed Butaro Hospital in Rwanda, Michael has become a thought leader in architecture and healthcare design and was recently listed in The Atlantic Monthly as one of the “Greatest Innovators of Today.”

By applying holistic thinking and focusing on the process of constructing a building as much as — if not more than — the physical building itself, Murphy will discuss architects’ ability to not only design the built environment, but also to build capacity, create dignity, and empower.

There will be a reception immediately following the lecture.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP to rsvp@nysid.edu.

6pm

Inside the New Whitney Museum The Whitney Museum of American Art — one of the only museums in New York City dedicated to American art — will move to its new home in the Meatpacking District in spring 2015. Scott Newman, partner at Cooper, Robertson & Partners and partner-in-charge of the new Whitney Museum in collaboration with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, will provide a sneak preview of the building’s interiors. He will touch on how the design reflects the museum’s unique mission and how that informs the display of art while actively engaging with the needs of a growing audience, the surrounding community, the city, and the environment.

www.nysid.edu / publicprograms