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Ten Chimneys Foundation’s Mission

  • Preserve and Share the buildings, furnishings, collections, and grounds of a national treasure – Ten Chimneys, the estate created by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
  • Serve as a continuing resource and powerful inspiration for theatre, the arts, and the art of living.
  • Offer public programs consistent with the Lunts’ varied interests and core values, while maintaining the integrity and intimacy of this extraordinary estate.

Ten Chimneys is a National Historic Landmark, a “Save America’s Treasures” project site, and is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. Ten Chimneys is owned by the non-profit 501(C)3 organization Ten Chimneys Foundation, Inc.

Headed to the Oscars

December 01, 2009

Noël Coward

Ten Chimneys’ traveling Noël Coward exhibition, made possible through the generosity of the Noël Coward Foundation, is headed to The Oscars.

This will be the exhibition’s fourth incarnation. Following the acclaimed 2007 exhibition here at Ten Chimneys, the oversized panels that we created to show different “views” of Coward’s life, The Daring Playwright, The Not-So-Secret Agent, The Rejected Icon, The Reinvented Star, etc., along with a DVD of Coward’s film and television highlights, traveled to The National Theatre in London, where they served as central components for an expanded exhibition, with a new universe of artifacts.

Following rave reviews in London, our panels and video have spent most of 2009 in San Francisco, joined by an even-larger collection of Coward artifacts, to become “one of the most popular exhibitions ever mounted at San Francisco’s Museum of Performance & Design,” beautifully curated by Brad Rosenstein and Rosy Runciman.

The show will now travel to Hollywood, to the galleries of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and will run from January 23–April 18, 2010, during the coveted “Oscar season” installation slot.

Visit The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences website for more details: http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibitions/exhibitions/2009/coward.html

For a glimpse at the exhibition, click here

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