5. Morrison Heckscher
06/04/20 • 69 min
This episode of "The Colophon" features a great friend of the Press, Morrie Heckscher, Curator Emeritus of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While visiting the Press a few months back (which, during a pandemic, is starting to feel like a lifetime ago), Morrie sat down with us to discuss our latest collaborative project: Chippendale’s Drawings for The Director, which reproduces and publishes, for the first time, Thomas Chippendale’s original drawings for his 1754 volume, The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker’s Director.
Learn more about this historic edition here: https://thornwillow.com/chippendale-director-heckscher-speelberg
This episode of "The Colophon" features a great friend of the Press, Morrie Heckscher, Curator Emeritus of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While visiting the Press a few months back (which, during a pandemic, is starting to feel like a lifetime ago), Morrie sat down with us to discuss our latest collaborative project: Chippendale’s Drawings for The Director, which reproduces and publishes, for the first time, Thomas Chippendale’s original drawings for his 1754 volume, The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker’s Director.
Learn more about this historic edition here: https://thornwillow.com/chippendale-director-heckscher-speelberg
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