Annual Lecture - Monday 8 November 2010, 6.30 pm at The Society of Antiquaries, Piccadilly, London W1.

Dr. Martin Olin, Research Curator The National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm, will deliver this year's Lecture on the subject of 'Nicodemus Tessin (1654-1728): the First Historian of Interior Decoration and his Collections'.

Annual General Meeting - Saturday 27 November 2010, 11.00am at the East India Club, 16 St James's Square, London SW1.

To be followed by 'Works in Progress', talks by representatives from the National Trust, English Heritage, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and special papers on the Soane Museum and Kensington Palace

Annual Symposium - Saturday 5 March 2011, Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1.

'Miniature Furniture and Interiors', with a programme of speakers including Jet Pijzel-Dommisse of the Gemeente Museum on the 17th Century Doll's Houses in the Rijksmuseum; Christopher Monkhouse, curator of European Decorative Arts at the Chicago Institute of Art, on the Thorne Rooms; Dr. Annette Cremer of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Giessen, on 'Mon Plaisir' at Arnstadt and Kathryn Jones of The Royal Collection on Queen Mary's Doll's House at Windsor Castle.

For further information and booking arrangements on these events please contact the FHS Activities Secretary, tel. 0207 384 4458 Email furniturehistorysociety@hotmail.com

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