Greene & Greene Drop-In Talks: Robinson House Dining Room
Explore the artistry of Charles Greene on his 156th birthday with a discussion about the dining room furniture from Greene & Greene’s Robinson House (1906). Join Gamble House docents to hear how these original pieces came to The Huntington and how they were viewed and valued as they moved from the house to The Huntington’s trustees’ dining room in the 1940s to a specially made re-creation of the original space 50 years later.
Informal drop-in talks at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
About the Organization
The Gamble House’s mission is to inspire the public’s appreciation and understanding of architecture as a fine art through the example of the Gamble House, the most complete and best-preserved work of American Arts and Crafts architects Charles and Henry Greene.
The exquisite designs of Arts and Crafts masters Charles Sumner Greene (1868–1957) and Henry Mather Greene (1870–1954) are on view in the Dorothy Collins Brown Wing of the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art.
The Huntington is home to 31 galleries of American art, ranging from the early Colonial period to the present and representing painting, sculpture, photography, film, decorative arts, architecture, and textiles.