The former Payne Whitney Mansion on 5th Avenue near 79th Street in New York City (now the Cultural Services of the French Embassy) built in 1906 contains a small \u201cVenetian Room\u201d which has a cornice of metal lattice entwined with dozens of porcelain flowers. The room is in a very fragile condition and plans have been made to stabilize and restore the decorations . To raise money for the restoration, individuals are being asked to donate $500 to \u201cAdopt-A-Flower\u201d. [I was in the building yesterday for a lecture and was handed a very small pamphlet about the project.] I wonder if finding multiple \u201csmall\u201d donors to raise the cost of the restoration is easier than finding one or two large donors, or if this is a public relations campaign designed to catch the eye of large donors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The former Payne Whitney Mansion on 5th Avenue near 79th Street in New York City (now the Cultural Services of the French Embassy) built in 1906 contains a small \u201cVenetian Room\u201d which has a cornice of metal lattice entwined with dozens of porcelain flowers. The room is in a very fragile condition and plans have … Continue reading “Is it easier to find multiple small donors? Or is this really a PR campaign?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}