Buxton Books is honored to host Tessa Murdoch in conversation with Daniel Ravenel for her book Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art & Culture. This is a free, in-store event. Please email rsvp@buxtonbooks.com to reserve your spot!

About Dr. Tessa Murdoch:

Dr. Tessa Murdoch received her PhD on ‘Huguenot artists, designers and craftsmen in Great Britain and Ireland, 1680–1760’ at Westfield College, University of London, 1982.  At the Museum of London from 1981, she curated the exhibition, The Quiet Conquest: The Huguenots 1685–1985. She was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1988. She joined the V&A in 1990, working in Furniture and Woodwork for eleven years before taking up the post of Deputy Keeper in the newly combined department of Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass in 2002. She was lead curator for the V&A’s 2005 Sacred Silver and Stained Glass Galleries and the 2009 Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries.

About EUROPE DIVIDED: A HUGUENOT REFUGEE ARTS & CULTURE

This richly illustrated book focuses on the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late 17th century to join communities already in exile spread far and wide.

About Daniel Ravenel:

The Daniel Ravenel Real Estate Company was founded on March 1st 1983 and the company has had nearly $2 billion in real estate sales without litigation since its inception. On February 23, 2007 the firm became Daniel Ravenel Sotheby’s International Realty.

Dan has received awards from the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, twice from the Charleston Regional Business Journal, the College of Charleston and Pi Kappa Phi. He has received recognition from the SC General Assembly for his work in higher education.

This is a free in-store event. Please email rsvp@buxtonbooks.com to reserve your spot! If you’d like to order a signed copy of Europe Divided: A Huguenot Refugee Arts & Culture, click here!