The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home, by R. Tripp Evans

Join Wheaton College professor R. Tripp Evans for an exploration of his latest book, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home, which examines the private worlds of four 鈥渃onfirmed bachelors鈥� 鈥� men whose homes defined American style from the Gilded to the Jazz Age. They include Charles L. Pendleton (1846-1904), the reclusive gambler who built one of his era鈥檚 collections of eighteenth-century furniture; renowned interior decorator Ogden Codman, Jr. (1863-1951), who inherited his ancestors鈥� vices along with their aristocratic pedigree; writer Charles H. Gibson, Jr. (1874-1954), who transformed his family鈥檚 Back Bay home into a personal literary shrine and monument to his own beauty; and Henry Davis Sleeper (1878-1934), who created his Eastern Point masterpiece, Beauport, for the love of his extended coterie of friends 鈥� a circle that included painter Cecilia Beaux, Harvard economist Piatt Andrew, and collector Isabella Stewart Gardner. The stories of these 鈥渟urprisingly domestic bachelors鈥� (as the press dubbed them) reveal the complicated depths beneath their homes鈥� brilliant surfaces.

Please join us for a wine & cheese reception and book signing following the lecture.

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