The Newport Symposium: The French Influence in Newport
Schedule
Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 08:30 am to Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 03:45 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Rosecliff, Newport Mansions | Newport, RI
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French art, architecture, design and cuisine permeated the lifestyles of the Gilded Age elite as they looked to the French aristocracy for inspiration.Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, modeled the architecture of Alva Vanderbilt’s Marble House after the Petit Trianon at Versailles. Horace Trumbauer’s inspiration for The Elms came from the 18th-century Château d’Asnières, while Stanford White’s design for Rosecliff incorporated elements of another Versailles palace, the Grand Trianon. Furniture maker and interior designer Jules Allard et Fils furnished Newport’s summer “cottages” with treasures inspired by and imported from France, and French chefs created magnificent culinary confections. Learn about all of this and more during the Symposium’s morning lectures and guided afternoon tours.
Symposium registration will include special access to the “Richard Morris Hunt: In a New Light” exhibition at Rosecliff.
November 6 at Rosecliff & November 7 at Marble House. Tickets are for both days.
Thursday: 8:30 am - 3:45 pm.
Friday: 8:30 am - 3:45 pm.
Lectures will be live or via Zoom video conference. Tours will be in-person only.
If you register for Zoom, you will receive the link 24 hours prior to the event.
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