Icon Furniture and Wood Group Symposium

Furniture and Wooden Objects Group Annual Symposium 2015
Freemasons' Hall London
60 Great Queen Street
London WC2B 5AZ
Friday 15 May 2015
12 - 5:30pm

Registration is now open for the Icon Furniture and Wooden Objects
Group Annual Symposium.  We have an exciting and diverse selection
of papers that address a wide range of research and treatments from
a mixture of private and institutional conservators.

Refreshments will be provided during the afternoon.

Our confirmed speakers are:

    Zoe Allen and Phil James
    Victoria and Albert Museum
        "Non-intrusive upholstery techniques for a Maire Antoinette
        chair"

    Hugh Harrison Hugh
    Harrison Conservation
        "The recent conservation of the sixteenth century choir
        stalls at the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester"

    Chloe Head and Dr Christina Young
    Courtauld Institute of Art
    "A model and methodology for the assessment of filing
    materials for insect damaged wood"

    Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet
    Musical Instrument Museums Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
        "Self-destructive elements in the construction of guitars in
        the nineteenth century"

    Amy Henderson
    Plowden and Smith
        "From Tender to Treatment: Conservation of a seventeenth
        century carved oak figure from Norfolk Museums' Collection"

The Furniture and Wooden Objects Group are subsidising the event so
tickets are offered at a discounted price.

Cost:
    Icon Members         UKP20
    Icon Student members UKP10
    Non-Icon members     UKP25

Tickets are available from

    <URL:http://woodgroup2015.eventbrite.co.uk>

For more information see the ICON furniture and wood group website

    <URL:http://goo.gl/SCVRPb>

Tristram Bainbridge
Victoria and Albert Museum
London SW7 2RL
UK


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