Gall Caskey Winkler Lecture - KSU CAED

Gall Caskey Winkler

Capricious fancy, draping and curtaining the historic interior, 1800-1930

Monday, February 25th, 2013

Kiva, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

7pm

via Kent CAED Events blog

Presented by: Gail Caskey Winkler | February 25th | 7:oopm Kiva

Capricious Fancy: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/garden/capricious-fancy-draping-and-curtaining-the-historic-interior-1800-1930.html?_r=0

Gail Caskey Winkler: http://www.winklerandmoss.com/

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison: History of Design

M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison: Interior Design

M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison: English Linguistics

B.A. Beloit College: English Literature

Gail Caskey Winkler teaches in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania and is responsible for a two-semester course entitled the ‘History of the American Interior.’ Prior to joining Penn Design faculty in 1985, she taught interior design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1991 through 1993 she also taught the history of the 19th-century American interior in the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware.

Winkler passed the NCIDQ examination if 1979 becoming a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). She was a member of the Research Committee of the Foundation for Interior Design Education and Research (FIDER) from 1986 to 1996 and served on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania East Chapter of ASID and as vice president in 1995-1996. She was elected a Fellow of ASID in 2000.

She is the senior partner of LCA Associates, a Philadelphia firm that specializes in historic furnishing plans and recreating historic interiors for museums, public structures, and government agencies throughout the United States. Projects include the House and Senate Chambers in the United States Capitol, the capitols of the Commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia, Philadelphia’s City Hall, the Superintendent’s Headquarters at the United States Naval Academy, the home of President Rutherford B. Hayes in Fremont, Ohio, and the Summer White House of Abraham Lincoln.

Winkler’s professional interests are also evident in her writing. She is the author of Victorian Interior Decoration (1986), Floor Coverings for Historic Buildings (1988), which received the Joel Polsky Prize from the Foundation for Interior Design Education and Research, and the Award of Excellence from the Southeastern Library Association, The Well-Appointed Bath (1989), and An Analysis of Drapery (1993). In 1994 she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to serve as curator of an exhibition, ‘Capricious Fancy: Draping and Curtaining, 1790-1930’ and a book by the same name was recently published by UPenn Press.