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The first formal Southern Furniture Market was held in High Point March 1–15, 1909. In 1921, the Southern Furniture Exposition Building opened for its first show June 20. Built in 19 months, the showroom cost approximately $1 million and held 249,000 square feet (23,100 m 2) of exhibition space. Regular shows were held in January and July.
The new museum opened to the public on March 21, 2015. [3] Exhibitions and programs are presented to the public in a custom-built, approximately 53,000-square-foot museum building located at G and 21st streets NW, bearing the names of both The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum.
Mel Smilow in New York, circa 1954. Mel Smilow (March 5, 1922 – December 26, 2002) was an American furniture designer, artist, and partner in Smilow-Thielle, a mid-twentieth-century firm producing affordable, modern furniture [1] and other interior furnishings, with retail outlets located in the greater metropolitan New York area and Washington, DC.
Since its opening, the museum has generally staged multiple exhibitions each year, often hosting one separate exhibition in each floor. Among the most important recent exhibitions, was the first ever American exhibition of contemporary North Korean art, [5] which was held concurrently with an exhibition of art by notable immigrant Greater Washington area artists, [5] including Ric Garcia, Joan ...
Wayfair Big Furniture sale: 20+ picks for fall from an interior designer — save up to 50%. Jessica Becker. Updated September 18, 2023 at 11:06 AM.
After the Corcoran cancelled the Mapplethorpe exhibition, the underwriters of the exhibition went to the nonprofit Washington Project for the Arts, [10] which showed the controversial images in its own space from July 21 to August 13, 1989, to large crowds. [11] [12] The 1990 NEA Appropriations Bill included language against "obscene" work. [13]
Charles Radtke born in 1964, is a studio furniture maker working in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.His focus is design, rarely if ever repeating an object. His work is found primarily in private collections, with the exception of his Sarcophagus #1 residing in permanent collection in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington, DC and in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
March 24, 1969 The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum located in Washington, D.C. that displays American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to 21st century. The gallery is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that was opened in 1859 on Pennsylvania Avenue and originally housed the Corcoran Gallery ...