Announcement: Invitation to Opening Reception of Naomi Leff Exhibition, June 18, 2008

President Thomas F. Schutte and Board of Trustees Chair Mike Pratt invite you to attend the opening reception for Naomi Leff: Interior Design, a presentation of the Pratt Institute President's Exhibition Series.

Curated by Donald Albrecht

JUNE 19-SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 18, 2008, 6-8 PM

Great rooms can tell stories and cast spells. No one understood this better than Naomi Leff (1938-2005), for whom interior design was a narrative art. Leff's interiors were opulently, sometimes even fantastically, imagined stage sets that elevated ordinary activities-shopping and conducting business meetings, for example-to the level of theater. As the head of her own New York City-based firm from 1980 until her death, Leff rejected a signature style, preferring instead to create interiors that evoked a wide range of different periods, places, and moods, from American Colonial to Art Deco. Naomi Leff: Interior Design will be the first exhibition to explore the work of this remarkable designer and will include photographs, furniture, and objects from Leff's personal collection and those of her clients, as well as video presentations devoted to signature projects for such companies as Polo/Ralph Lauren and Giorgio Armani.

PRATT MANHATTAN GALLERY

144 West 14th Street

(between 6th and 7th Avenues)

New York, NY 10011

Gallery Hours

Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am-6 pm

EVENTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION

Book signing by Kimberly Williams, author of the new book Naomi Leff: Interior Design, The Monacelli Press, 2008

June 18, 2008, 6-8 pm and

September 9, 2008, 5-7 pm

Gallery tour by Donald Albrecht, guest curator,and Kimberly Williams, author of the new book Naomi Leff: Interior Design, The Monacelli Press, 2008

September 9, 2008, 12 pm

All events take place in the gallery and are free and open to the public.

For more information, call 212-647-7778 or email exhibits@pratt.edu.

PAST PRESENTATIONS OF THE PRATT INSTITUTE PRESIDENT'S EXHIBITIONS SERIES

Eva Zeisel at 100:
A Lifetime of Masterwork in Design

October 4-November 18, 2006

Forever Modern: 50 Years of Record Houses (with Architectural Record magazine)

August 11-September 17, 2005

Under His Wing: Herschel Levit's Legacy In the World of Advertising

August 25-September 19, 2004

The President's Exhibition Series, inaugurated in 2004, celebrates the accomplishments of Pratt's faculty and alumni as well as the contributions they have made in the fields of art, design, and architecture through exhibitions in the Pratt Manhattan Gallery.

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