Special Tours
Rough Point in Newport, RI - Director & Curator's Tour of Doris Duke's Oceanfront Home
- Item Number
- 138
- Estimated Value
- 300 USD
- Sold
- 242 USD to OldIvyManor
- Number of Bids
- 14 - Bid History
Item Description
Come with three of your friends and enjoy a private tour of Rough Point, conducted by Pieter N. Roos, Executive Director of the Newport Restoration Foundation. A. Bruce MacLeish, Director of Collections, will then give a guided tour of this year’s special exhibit entitled “Shop Like an Heiress: Buying Fashion in the 20th Century” on display in the galleries at Rough Point. Twice named to the international best-dressed list, Doris Duke owned over 9,000 pieces of clothing at the time of her death. Admire highlights from her couture collection, including pieces by Dior, Givenchy, Halston and Pucci.
r a private tour of a very special historic home in Newport, Rhode Island. Rough Point is situated dramatically on the oceanfront with expansive grounds designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead. But what lies outside Rough Point is surpassed by what lies within. The collection accumulated by the Duke family sits undisturbed and exactly as it was when Doris Duke last left the house in 1992. Few house museums can make that claim, and fewer yet can claim such distinguished collections. Canvasses by Gainsborough, van Dyck, and Renoir populate the house, at home among furniture and other decorative arts of equal caliber. Rough Point is unique, not only in its collections, which represent some of the best of their kind in the United States, but also in allowing visitors to visit a Gilded Age estate whose owner is within living memory.
Item Special Note
Scheduled for a date and time mutually agreed upon by the highest bidder and the administrative offices of the Newport Restoration Foundation. Allow an hour and a half to tour the house and collections, as well as some additional time to enjoy the grounds. Rough Point is fully handicapped accessible. Offer expires May 31, 2010.
Explore the unique Rough Point house museum.
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