The SHS Speaker Series continues with a presentation on November 17 at 7:00 pm by Madeleine Deschamps at the Marion Art Center’s Anne Braitmayer Webb Theater. The talk entitled, “The Creation of la Côte d’Azur: How the Southeastern coast of France became myth and reality as the French Riviera.” The presentation will be a free, illustrated lecture by Madeleine Deschamps, PhD.
Madeleine Deschamps is an interior designer with specialties in high-end residences and hospitality, and an art historian specializing in the Decorative Arts and in Art Crafts, Métiers d’art. She was Senior Designer with Peter Marino Architects in New York for over eight years, then Senior Designer and Head of the Materials and Finishes department at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York.