Introduced by Kate Markert, Hillwood’s executive director and author of A Garden for All Seasons: Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood, the lecture will first explore how the visionary Marjorie Post planned and created her garden paradise set on 25 acres in Washington, DC. Wilfried Zeisler, Hillwood’s chief curator and curator of the selection of works of art from Post’s collection on view at the Washington Antiques Show, will follow and share insights on these beautiful examples from the museum’s collection.

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Dr. Wilfried Zeisler is Hillwood’s chief curator. He is a graduate of Sorbonne University and the Ecole du Louvre, Paris. Wilfried has written extensively on French and Russian decorative arts, including a 2010 book on French ceramics commemorating the French-Russian Alliance, several articles, and contributions to books. Wilfried’s dissertation, L’Objet d’art et de luxe français en Russie (1881–1917) [French Objets d’art and Luxury Goods in Russia], was published in Paris in 2014. Between 2009 and 2011, he has participated in and curated exhibitions in Paris and Monaco. At Hillwood, his most recent exhibitions were Fabergé Rediscovered (2018), Bouke de Vries: War and Pieces (2019), Natural Beauties: Exquisite Works of Minerals and Gems (2020) and The Porcelain Flowers of Vladimir Kanevsky (2021). Wilfried co-authored Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris (2015), and is the author of Fabergé Rediscovered and Vivre la Belle Epoque à Paris—Paul de Russie et Olga Paley, both published in 2018. He is currently working on a new book project on the collection of Hillwood’s founder, Marjorie Post (co-authored with Hillwood’s curatorial team).