Event:               The Mount’s 2010 Exhibition “Salute to French Design”

 

Date:                Wednesday, 24 June 2009

 

Time:                Ten o’clock

 

Where:              The French Embassy, 972 Fifth Avenue at 79 Street

 

 

Description:       Geoffrey Bradfield, Libby Cameron, Thomas Jayne, Charlotte Moss, and Bunny Williams will host a morning reception for the announcement of The Mount’s 2010 Exhibition “Salute to French Design”. 

 

Andree Putmann, will offer welcome remarks.

 

In recognition of Edith Wharton’s deep admiration for the French Aesthetic, The Mount will celebrate the enduring elegance of French Design during the 2010 season.  Wharton believed that the French were born with superb tasted and she urged Americans to look at France, the country she loved above all others, for guidance in cultivating the art of civilized living.  For the “Salute to French Design,” France’s leading designers and luxury brands will exemplify the French esthetic by decorating the most important and formal rooms of The Mount.  The exhibit will open to the public in June of 2010.

 

The Mount is the National Historic Landmark house and gardens created in 1902 by Edith Wharton in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. Author of such enduring classics as The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome, Wharton was also an authority on interior design and architecture. Her first book, The Decoration of Houses (co-written with architect Ogden Codman, Jr. in 1897) is considered a seminal work of modern interior design and is still in print. The Mount has recently achieved a major debt reduction and restructuring, and received in May a $750,000 unrestricted grant from the Alice M. Kaplan Memorial Reserve. These milestone accomplishments position The Mount well to achieve long term financial stability.

 

The reception is sponsored by Baccarat, Bernardaud, French American Cultural Exchange, and Paul Georg Champagne

 

Ticket Price: Invitation only