Merchant's House Museum Hosts Lecture on Duncan Phyfe Tonight, 5/2

Join Carswell Berlin, private antiques dealer and expert in early 19th century American furniture, as he surveys the stylistic changes and features that characterize Phyfe's work over the course of a 50-year career. Mr. Berlin is a lender to the current Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York, where furniture from his collection dominates two of the three principal galleries of the exhibition. Several other pieces are illustrated in the exhibition catalog. On display at the Merchant's House is a set of 12 Duncan Phyfe side chairs, circa 1835, purchased by the Tredwells when they moved to East 4th Street.

$15, MHM Members free. Reservations recommended; call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org.

Date: Tonight, May 2, 2012

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)

The Merchant's House Museum is New York City's only family home preserved intact - inside and out - from the mid-19th century. Home to a prosperous merchant-class family for almost 100 years, it is complete with the family's original furnishings and personal possessions, offering a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life from 1835-1865.