Through the 20th Centuries , at the 4th annual Newport Student Forum on Friday, February 9, 2001. The Forum fosters scholarship among graduate students on all aspects of architecture, the decorative arts, design history and social history as it relates to the evolution of historic houses and their collections. This year's Forum will address how the art of entertaining has influenced design history for the past three centuries. Setting the dining room table or receiving guests for tea or coffee in the 18th century fostered an entire industry in the production of chairs, teapots and tureens. Participants in the Forum will look at how changes in society's manner of entertaining are reflected in its dining rooms, silver, porcelain and furniture through the ages.
Admission is free and open to the public, but reservations are required as seating is limited.
The film focuses on a group of religiously zealous villagers in 19th century Denmark who are taught love and forgiveness through a lavish banquet prepared by one of their housemaids, who turns out to be a world-class French chef. It's a celebration of food and feasting, in French and Danish with English subtitles. The Preservation Society of Newport County, a non-profit educational organization founded in 1945, has been responsible for the preservation, restoration and revitalization of many of Newport's outstanding buildings and landscapes.