Tickets in the Theater are sold out. Additional seating is available in a simulcast location. Simulcast tickets are $5, and may be purchased by phone. Please call 202.686.5807. For centuries, boxes, caskets, and chests have played an important role in everyday life. The form and decoration of these objects not only reflected changes in social customs and manners but also closely followed the stylistic developments in Europe.

This is the second lecture in the Great Homes and Gardens Lecture Series.Henry Huntington's superintendent, William Hertrich, was instrumental in developing the various plant collections that comprise the foundation of The Huntington Botanical Gardens. TLearn about the evolution of the Huntington Estate, from the development of the Lily Ponds, Palm, Desert, and Japanese gardens in Mr. Huntington’s day to the institution’s continued change and development as a cultural site. 

This is the fourth lecture in the Great Homes and Gardens Lecture Series.Landscape architect Fletcher Steele considered garden design a fine art along with sculpture and painting, though perhaps more exacting. From 1926 to 1956 Fletcher Steele and Mabel Choate molded a garden masterpiece at Naumkeag. With bold new strokes they created a landscape canvas that sprung from the roots of a late nineteenth-century country estate.

This is the third lecture in the Great Homes and Gardens Lecture Series.Vizcaya is a one of a kind estate–a pastiche of old and new, emerging from the steamy mangrove swamps. Created by a man with an open checkbook and another man with unlimited creative vision, it continues to beckon today as theater of a bygone era, transporting the visitor to another place and time. 

This is the first lecture in the Great Homes and Gardens Lecture Series. Award winning interior designer Timothy Corrigan provides inspiration and instruction in the art of comfortably elegant decoration, offering indispensable advice on how to live in historic homes in a modern way.

In conjunction with the publication of Going for Gold: Craftsmanship and Collecting of Gold Boxes, explore intricate, highly decorated boxes manufactured for snuff. This beautifully illustrated lecture includes highlights of the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the VandA.

Seen The Monuments Men? Now come hear about Marvin Ross, a “Monuments Man” who was also Hillwood's first Curator. 

Over the course of three generations the du Pont family treasured, refined, expanded, and ornamented their country estate known as Winterthur.