Lucienne Day: A Sense of Growth
Lucienne Day: A Sense of Growth
Friday 19 May 2017
Lucienne Day: A Sense of Growth
Lucienne Day: A Sense of Growth
Friday 19 May 2017
Lucienne Day had a lifelong passion for gardening. She was a knowledgeable plantswoman who pursued her interest on specialist botanical holidays abroad. At her London home she was confined to pot gardening but she finally got real soil to work with in 1964, when she and her husband Robin leased a cottage in West Sussex as a weekend bolt hole. It was a shady woodland garden that she planted with predominantly white-bloomed cultivars.
This exhibition has been curated by Jennifer Harris, formerly the deputy director and head of textiles at the Whitworth, in collaboration with Lucienne Day’s daughter Paula Day, chair of the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation. Jennifer worked with Lucienne Day in 1993 on the first ever retrospective exhibition of the designer’s work, held at the Whitworth. Lucienne Day donated her textile archive to the Whitworth, and in combination with the gallery’s already substantial Lucienne Day textile collection, the Whitworth holds one of the world’s largest Lucienne Day textiles collections.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £10.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Venue: the Whitworth, Study Centre
Time: 1.30 – 2.15pm and afterwards in the Collection Centre
Cost: £10 per person and includes tea/coffee
Members only
Lucienne Day had a lifelong passion for gardening. She was a knowledgeable plantswoman who pursued her interest on specialist botanical holidays abroad. At her London home she was confined to pot gardening but she finally got real soil to work with in 1964, when she and her husband Robin leased a cottage in West Sussex as a weekend bolt hole. It was a shady woodland garden that she planted with predominantly white-bloomed cultivars.
This exhibition has been curated by Jennifer Harris, formerly the deputy director and head of textiles at the Whitworth, in collaboration with Lucienne Day’s daughter Paula Day, chair of the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation. Jennifer worked with Lucienne Day in 1993 on the first ever retrospective exhibition of the designer’s work, held at the Whitworth. Lucienne Day donated her textile archive to the Whitworth, and in combination with the gallery’s already substantial Lucienne Day textile collection, the Whitworth holds one of the world’s largest Lucienne Day textiles collections.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £10.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Venue: the Whitworth, Study Centre
Time: 1.30 – 2.15pm and afterwards in the Collection Centre
Cost: £10 per person and includes tea/coffee
Members only
EVENT DATE
MAY 19, 2017
COST
£10.00 per person
POSTAL BOOKINGS
Booking Closed
NUMBER OF PLACES
Max. places: 36
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