Article: MESDA and the study of early southern decorative arts.(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts )

Article: The Museum of Early Southern Decorative ...
The Magazine Antiques;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston ... and connoisseurship of southern decorative arts and material culture ... cultural styles exhibited in southern decorative arts, objects made

Article: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts ...
The Magazine Antiques;  December 1, 1999 ;     542 words ...The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), has announced that their graduate Summer ...

Article: Of the latest style: silver at MESDA.(Museum of Early ...
The Magazine Antiques;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The logo of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts is based on a silver salver made by Alexander Petrie of Charleston (Figs. 4, 4a). The salver's shaped piecrust edge not ...

Article: Architecture as artifact: period rooms at MESDA.(Museum of Early ...
The Magazine Antiques;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Stepping from the well-lit museum gallery space through a low doorway into a small room, everything seems dark, but as one's eyes adjust to the dimmed light, a dark wood floor, a huge brick fireplace, an enclosed corner stair, a spectacular batten door, and regularly spaced ceiling joists slowly

Article: Many hands, many voices: southern furniture at MESDA.(Museum of ...
The Magazine Antiques;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...In 1607, when Captain John Smith (1580-1631) first set foot on Virginia's shores, he was struck by the abundant natural resources of the new continent. Describing the forests to potential colonists in Europe, Smith noted that "all the Country is over-growne with trees many of their Okes are so

Article: Tangible displays of refinements: southern needlework at ...
The Magazine Antiques;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Southern domestic needlework of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has often been viewed as a traditional and, perhaps, parochial product of female hands. Family anecdotes and early scholarship have reinforced the perception of needlework as simply a homely vernacular artifact that added to

Article: Useful devices: the prints and maps at MESDA.(Museum of Early ...
The Magazine Antiques;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...While MESDA's founder Frank L. Horton acknowledged that prints and maps were used to adorn the walls of southern houses, he also recognized that the majority were not produced in the colonial South but rather were published in England and Europe and imported to America. And since his goal was to