Morven Museum & Garden’s exciting Grand Homes & Gardens Distinguished Speakers Series returns with another stellar lineup. This year we travel to the Roaring 20’s starting at Innisfree in New York, then south to Swan House in Georgia, down to Ca’ D’Zan on Florida’s west coast; finally arriving in Miami’s Vizcaya. Held live in Morven’s Stockton Education Center, adjacent to the Museum, and simulcast on Zoom, in February and March, this illustrated lecture series brightens winter up and down the coast.

In person program includes light refreshments tailored to the theme of each week’s featured lecturer. Online virtual program includes recipes for make-at-home fare. SERIES TICKETS INCLUDE LIVE OR VIRTUAL TICKETS TO ALL 4 WEEKS OF PROGRAMMING. You may, however, sign up for individual sessions.

On February 10 at 6:30, Katherine H. Kerin, Landscape Curator, will discuss Innisfree. While the making of Innisfree spanned about 70 years, its roots are in the 1920s when Walter Beck and his wife, avid gardener and heiress Marion Burt Beck, began work on their Millbrook, New York country residence. Decidedly American, Innisfree merges traditional Chinese and Japanese design with Romantic and Modernist ideals and ecological design principles. While the house is no longer standing, it was adapted from an Arts and Crafts building at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden, Wisley, and we will have a view into the Beck’s collection of Asian, primarily Chinese art, which filled it.

Pricing is $15 – $90 for entire series. Register HERE.