48th Annual Delaware Show

4 Delaware Antiques Show P. ALLEN SMITH Friday, November 4, 10:00 am Dravo Auditorium Sponsored by: Join honorary show chair and featured speaker P. Allen Smith as he discusses the importance of antiques to his sense of design. Smith is an award-winning garden and lifestyle designer and host of the public television program P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home and the syndicated 30-minute show P. Allen Smith Gardens. He is one of America’s most recognized and respected garden design experts, providing ideas and inspiration through multiple media venues.* MAGGIE LIDZ The Sophisticated Garden: Furnishing the Outdoors in the 1920s and 30s Saturday, November 5, 2:00 pm Pusey & Jones Room Sponsored by: Some of the best gardens of the 20th century were designed in America in the 1920s and 30s. Longwood, Winterthur, and Dumbarton Oaks are a few of the surviving examples. Although public institutions today, they were created as private pleasure grounds, horticulturally ambitious and carefully furnished in a traditional style that appears divorced from the modernism movement taking place at the time. Although critics and historians have positioned modernism and traditional style on divergent paths, a reexamination of this widely accepted dogma is in order. Join us for a highly visual lecture that examines the question “What makes a modernist garden?” Photo: Hortus, Ltd.