Programme
09:15 – 09:45 – Welcome coffee and Registration
09:45 – 10:00 – Welcome
10.00 – 11.00
Panel 1: The Circular Economy
‘The Virtue of Auction Houses’ – Sarah Fergusson (McTear’s Auctioneers)
‘Lady’s Own Stones: Refashioning Gems of Yesterday into Jewels of Today’ – Levi Higgs and Dianne Batista (David Webb Archives).
‘Re-appropriate in the Making of Late 20th Century Furniture’ – Joy McCall (Christie’s)
11.00-12.00
Panel 2: Thrifty Opulence
‘“Broken and Useless”. Notes on Fashion and Textile Recycling and Repurposing in 18th Century Venice’ – Isabella Campagnol (Istituto Marangoni)
‘Luxury as Spectacle: Making Festivals in Early Modern Florence’ – Jennifer Halton (Imperial College)
‘Re-birth: The Spangled Bed from Knole’ – Rosamund Weatherall (National Trust)
‘Rags to Riches: Jean Dubuffet’s Rehabilitiation of Mud’ – Rachel E. Perry (University of Haifa)
12.15 – 12.30 Discussion – Panels 1 & 2
12:30-13:30 Lunch (not included)
13.30-14.30
Panel 3: Symbolic (Re-)Appropriation
‘Crossing Religious Boundaries: Luxury Islamic Silks and Ivories from al-Andalus’ – Ian Cockburn (Independent Scholar)
‘”This heavy Thing”: Catherine the Great’s Coronation Crown’ – Susan Jaques (Author and Journalist)
‘Pretty in Pink: The Re-Use of Mannheim Court Fashion by the Jesuits in the 18th Century’ – Uta Coburger (State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Wuerttemberg)
14.30-15.40 Panel 4 Provenance as a form of Recycling?
‘Recycled, Redecorated, Renewed: A Porcelain Inkstand by Edward Holmes Baldock’ – Diana Davis (Independent Researcher)
‘The Rothschilds and Renaissance Jewellery’ – Isabelle Cartier-Stone (Christie’s)
‘Pearls and La Peregrina’ – Gil Darby (Independent Scholar)
15:20 – 15:40 Discussion Panels 3 & 4
15:40 – 16.00 –Tea and Biscuits
16.00- 17.30
Panel 5: The Afterlife of Luxury
‘The Case Study of a ‘Tinkered’ Tapestry’ Pascal Bertrand (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
‘”Aux Plaisirs des Dames”: A Meissen Bourdaloue Transformed’ – Catrin Jones (Holburne Museum)
‘Is a Vase really a Vase when it used to be a chamberpot’? Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth (V&A/university of Leeds)
‘Italian Archeological Jewellery: From Antiquity to the Antiquarian’ – Joseph Robson (Christie’s)
‘Liminal Luxury: The Cost and Value of Fancy Dress Costume’ – Benjamin Wild (Independent Scholar)
17:15-17:35 Discussion Panel 5
17:35 – 17:45 Closing Remarks: Jonathan Faiers (University of Southampton)
17:45-19.00 Wine Reception
Please note that the programme is subject to change.
