Conference Programme Day One

Chair, Dr Peter Burman MBE FSA, Hopetoun House Preservation Trust

9.00-10.00

Coffee & Registration

10am

Welcome and Introduction

Dr Peter Burman

10.15am

Keynote address Best Beds and State Beds

David Jones, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, University of St Andrews, furniture historian specialising in Scottish furniture

11am Comfort Break

11.15am

(i) The history of the Hopetoun State Bed

Sandra Olm McRae

(ii) The Hopetoun State Bed: conserving the wooden carcase

Sarah Gerrish, Furniture Conservator

(iii) The Hopetoun State Bed – a textile conservation programme

in the making

Tuula Pardoe, ACR, The Scottish Conservation Studio, based at Hopetoun House

12.15am

The Conservation & Restoration of the Dunham Massey State Bed

Annabel Westman, Textile Historian

1pm Lunch

2.15pm

An Elizabethan Best Bed from Sizergh Castle, Cumbria

Richard Dean (National Trust) and Jeremy Hall (Peter Hall & Co.)

3pm

The Newhailes Best Bed and its Apartment Planning

Ian Gow, The National Trust for Scotland

3.20pm

Thomas Chippendale’s Best Bed at Dumfries House

Charlotte Rostek, Curator, Dumfries House

3.40pm Tea

4.15pm

Six study groups to examine selected items of furniture and textiles. Discussion and feedback will be recorded by members of the Hopetoun House Preservation Trust staff team. Led by Lord Hopetoun, Lady Hopetoun, Tuula Pardoe, Sarah Gerrish, David Jones and Alison Docherty.

6-7pm Drinks Reception in the State Apartments of the Main House

7.30pm Dinner at the invitation of the Earl and Countess of Hopetoun

Conference Programme, Day Two

Chair, Christopher Rowell, Furniture Curator, The National Trust

9.30am

Keynote address English State Beds and the House of Orange

Paul Rem, Curator, Royal Palace of Het Loo

10.30am Coffee

11am

The State Beds of the Royal Palaces of Berlin & Potsdam

Dr Susanne Evers, Curator of Textiles, Glass, Clocks & Musical Instruments, Stiftung Preussischer Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG), Potsdam

11.40am

Queen Charlotte’s & Queen Anne’s Beds, Hampton Court Palace

Maria Jordan ACR, Historic Royal Palaces

12.20pm

Understanding and Interpretation – the unfolding story of the James II bed at Knole

Ksynia Marko ACR, National Trust Textile Conservation Adviser & Studio Manager, Bickling Hall Estate, Norfolk.

1pm Lunch

2.15pm

Three English State Beds (from Boughton & Houghton) in the ownership of the Victoria & Albert Museum

Sarah Medlam, Deputy Keeper of the Furniture, Textiles & Fashion Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

3.15pm

Reflections on State Beds from a National Trust perspective

Christopher Rowell, Furniture Curator, The National Trust

4pm

Questions and Discussion followed by an Envoi from the Earl & Countess of Hopetoun

4.30pm Tea

5pm Depart

A programme of visits will be organised on the Saturday if there is sufficient

demand.