Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82 Medill Harvey & Barbara Veith, Guest Lecturers Thursday, January 13, 2022 5:00 PM PDT Please join Brooklyn Museum of Decorative Arts Guest Curator Barbara Veith and co-author Medill H. Harvey as they present on the extraordinary partnership of Anton Kimbel and Joseph Cabus. Immigrant cabinetmakers Anton Kimbel (1822-1895) and Joseph Cabus (1824-1898) developed one of New York City’s leading furniture and decorating firms, capturing national attention with their inventive Modern Gothic designs. Melding British and Continental design sources they created a wide range of forward-looking forms that appealed to equally adventurous clientele. This talk will offer new scholarship and fresh insight into the firm and its contributions to American design history. Medill Harvey is the Ruth Bigelow Wriston Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and Manager of the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She oversees the collections of American silver, jewelry, and other metalwork, as well as mid-nineteenth-century furniture. From 2010 to 2017, Barbara Veith was adjunct faculty at the Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons MA Program in the History of Design. She guest-curated Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Company. From 1999 to 2009, she was a research associate in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image: Kimbel and Cabus (New York, 1863–82). Cabinet-Secretary, circa 1875. Painted cherry, gilding, copper, brass, leather, earthenware, 60 × 35 × 14 in. (152.4 × 88.9 × 35.6 cm). Photo: Gavin Ashworth Free for ICAA Members General public $20 Please note registration will close 1 hour prior to the event. �This event will be presented via Zoom. You will receive a Zoom link prior to the program. If you have any questions about this class, please email [email protected].