Jack Lenor Larsen's LongHouse
Molly Chappellet, author of Jack Lenor Larsen‘s LongHouse, will discuss the creative work of Jack Lenor Larsen, internationally known textile designer, author, and collector. It will be a celebration of Molly‘s new book and a conversation about textiles, design, and gardens.
Presented by the Garden Conservancy and the Textile Arts Department of
the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Cosponsored by The Textile Arts Council
Read more about our cosponsors.
Time:
10:30 a.m. lecture and book signing
Admission:
$20 Members of Garden Conservancy, Textile Arts Council, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and LongHouse (pre-registration only)
$25 general admission and at the door
Online pre-registration is closed. Please register at the door.
Media sponsor: California Home+Design magazine
AN UPDATE ABOUT JACK LARSEN, Nov. 17:
We just learned that due to health issues, Jack’s doctors have grounded him and he cannot fly to California for our event on Saturday, November 20. He was so much looking forward to participating in this event; however, the show goes on. We are planning a great celebration of his work, his garden, and the publication of Molly Chappellet’s beautiful book Jack Lenor Larsen’s LongHouse. Following Molly’s presentation, Jack and Molly’s good friend Yoshiko Wada, textile artist and independent scholar, and Zahid Sardar, architecture, design, and garden writer and author of New Garden Design: Inspiring Private Paradises, will join Molly on stage for a discussion of Jack’s textiles, design process, and garden making. Molly and Yoshiko will share many personal stories.
In the company of his longtime friends and colleagues, we look forward to celebrating Jack, his life work, and the magnificent new book that chronicles his creative journey.
About Molly Chappellet:
Molly Chappellet is a photographer, writer, designer, and vintner. Molly is the author of five books: A Vineyard Garden, the James Beard Award winning book that discusses her ideas from the earth for entertaining, gardening and life; The Romance of California Vineyards, authored with her daughter Carissa, features breathtaking photographs of the Napa Valley; and, Gardens of the Wine Country, co-authored with Richard Tracy takes you on an exclusive tour of the Napa Valley‘s most spectacular gardens. Into the Earth: A Wine Cave Renaissance, co-authored with Daniel D’Agostini. Her latest, Jack Lenor Larsen’s LongHouse, captures the spirit of LongHouse and its sixteen acres of gardens.
When she is not tending to her garden, Molly speaks about design and gardening and hosts winemaker dinners around the country. She has appeared on The Regis and Kathy Lee Show, The Home Show and Martha Stewart Living. Her list of credits also includes writing articles for national magazines and daily newspapers. She lives in Napa, California.
Read Molly Chappellet‘s expanded biography here.
About Jack Lenor Larsen‘s LongHouse (Chronicle Books, 2010):
Internationally renowned for his weaving and textile design, Jack Lenor Larsen is also an accomplished and passionate gardener. LongHouse, in East Hampton, New York, is a diverse exhibition environment, public garden, and educational destination. This book celebrates it as the living embodiment of Larsen‘s personal and artistic philosophies. Photographer and long-time friend Molly Chappellet provides lush images and meditative text that highlight the interaction of art and nature both inside the house and throughout the gardens. The book includes 220 photographs and a detailed image index containing art and horticultural information. With a foreword by playwright Edward Albee and an afterword by Garden Conservancy founder Frank Cabot, this 240-page masterpiece is a must for your collection.
Learn more about Jack Lenor Larsen‘s LongHouse.
About Jack Lenor Larsen:
Jack Lenor Larsen‘s name is synonymous with 20th century textiles. His creative innovations range from filmy casement (cloth) to thick upholstery fabric and from geometric design of complex double weave to playful organic prints. Larsen textiles have enlivened interiors of airplanes, large commercial buildings, public institutes, and private homes.
But his reputation is not bound in threads. It reaches the areas of furniture and interior design, writing (authoring 10 books), entrepreneurship, world traveler, gardener, collector extraordinaire. His collection of ancient and contemporary crafts including textiles, ceramics, sculpture, and furniture is well regarded and now much of it is on view at LongHouse.
Having traveled the world, absorbing the creativity of other cultures, he keeps increasing his knowledge and his taste. Larsen has worked in India, learned about wool in Ireland, and opened weaving centers all over Africa, Beijing, and Manchuria. Everywhere he went he collected unusual and beautiful objects. “My motto for collecting has always been trust the heart, distrust the mind.”
Larsen designs have merited retrospective exhibitions at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; Museum Bellerive in Zurich; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and the Remwick Gallery in Washington, D.C.
View Larsen design "A Living Archive" at Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Read Jack Lenor Larsen‘s expanded biography here.
