(WAG Lecture Series) Upholstery Conservation Webinar Part 2

Stéphanie Auffret is a furniture conservator with strong interest in 17th and 18th century decorative arts, including marquetry, decorative surfaces such as gilded wood and lacquer, as well as upholstery. She received both a PhD and an MA in Art History from the University of Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV and an MA in Art Conservation from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her PhD focused on The Authenticity of French Furniture: Interpretation, Evaluation and Preservation. She joined the Getty Conservation Institute in 2016, where she develops research projects, training programs internationally, as well as dissemination tools such as publications. Her currents projects focus on the conservation of wooden gilded surfaces and Asian and European lacquers, as well as furniture conservation. Prior to this position, she worked as a furniture conservator at the Winterthur Museum (as conservator and assistant professor in the Winterthur-University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation), the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Historic New England, as well as at private conservation studios in France. She held several officer positions within both WAG (AIC) and ICOM-CC over the past two decades.

RIAN M. H. DEURENBERG-WILKINSON is a Conservator at Fallon & Wilkinson, LLC, a private conservation firm in Connecticut. She held a two-year position in the Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation at the Metropolitan Museμm of Art in New York, after concluding a three-year Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Philadelphia Museμm of Art. She graduated from the furniture conservation program at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) in 2001 and has worked on wooden artifacts in private and institutional conservation labs in both the Netherlands and the United States. Over the past two decades, she has frequently worked on upholstery projects spanning the range of commercial reupholstery to completely non-intrusive upholstery.