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<td><p></p><span class="headline1">ABOUT Cora Ginsburg LLC</span>
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<p>The name Cora Ginsburg has been associated with fine and rare costume and antique textiles since the 1940s. Founded in 1971 as Cora Ginsburg Inc., the company specializes in museum-quality costume of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and in textiles of the 17th to 20th centuries. Owner and director Titi Halle has been with the gallery since 1981. Cora Ginsburg LLC collects, consults, and appraises for museums and private collectors in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
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<span class="headline2">Titi Halle</span>
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<br><img src="images/gallery/titi4a.jpg" width="190" height="235" style="padding: 0 3px; float: right;"> In 1979, Titi Halle met the renowned Cora Ginsburg; Ms. Halle became director of the business in 1985 and the owner in 1997. She is a member of the <a class="grey" href="http://www.naadaa.org/" target="_blank">National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America</a>, the <em><a class="grey" href="http://www.cieta.fr/" target="_blank">Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens</a></em>, the <a class="grey" href="http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/" target="_blank">Costume Society of America</a>, the <a class="grey" href="http://www.textilesociety.org/" target="_blank">Textile Society of America</a>, and <a href="http://www.cinoa.org/" target="_blank">CINOA</a>. Ms. Halle has also participated as a textile expert on the <a class="grey" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/" target="_blank">Antiques Road Show</a>.<br></br>Ms. Halle was the 2017 recipient of the <a href="http://bgc.bard.edu/" target="_blank">Bard Graduate Center</a> Iris Foundation Award for Outstanding Dealer. She has lectured at the <a class="grey" href="http://www.textilemuseum.org/" target="_blank">Textile Museum</a>, Washington D.C., the <a class="grey" href="https://www.dia.org/" target="_blank">Detroit Institute of Art</a>, the <a href="http://www.history.org/conted/" target="_blank">Annual Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum</a>, <a class="grey" href="http://www.sothebysinstitute.com/" target="_blank">Sotheby's Institute</a> and at various other museums and historical societies across the United States. She has served on the Textile Vetting Committees for numerous fairs, including <a href="http://www.tefaf.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=1" target="_blank">The European Fine Art Fair</a> in Maastricht, Netherlands, and the <a href="http://www.winterantiquesshow.com/" target="_blank">Winter Show</a> in New York. Since 1995, Ms. Halle has organized and published the annual catalogue for Cora Ginsburg LLC, focusing on rare costume,
textiles and needlework. In January 2010, <a href="http://www.themagazineantiques.com/" target="_blank">The Magazine Antiques</a> featured a <a href="http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/the-market/2010-01-14/titi-halle-cora-ginsburg/" target="_blank">dealer profile</a> of Ms. Halle; Cora Ginsburg LLC and Ms. Halle were also the subject of a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/arts/design/22antiques.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">column in the "Antiques" section of the <em>New York Times</em></a>, January 21, 2010.</p>
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<span class="headline2">Michele Majer</span>
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<br><img src="images/gallery/michele.jpg" width="190" height="235" style="padding: 0 3px; float: right;"> Michele Majer has been with Cora Ginsburg LLC as a research associate since 1995. In addition to her work for the gallery, she is Professor Emerita at <a href="http://www.bgc.bard.edu/" target="_blank" class="grey">The Bard Graduate Center</a>, NY, where she teaches courses in clothing and textile history. Ms. Majer received her BA at Barnard College and her MA
at New York University. She was on the curatorial staff at the <a class="grey" href="https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/curatorial-departments/the-costume-institute" target="_blank">Costume
Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> from 1986–1993. Her publications include: "Arte, moda e mercato : la rivista Les Modes e l'Hôtel des Modes," in <em>Boldini e la moda</em> (Fondazione Ferrara arte, 2020); </em><em>Staging Fashion, 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke</em> (Bard Graduate Center, 2012); "<em>La Mode à la girafe</em>: Fashion, Culture and Politics in Bourbon Restoration France," in <em></em>Studies in the Decorative Arts</em> (2009); “<em>La Quatrième Unité</em>: Costume and Fashion in Genre Historique Painting,” in <em>Romance and Chivalry: History and Literature Reflected in Early Nineteenth-Century French Painting</em> (Matthiesen Gallery, 1996); “American Women and French Fashion,” in <em>The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815</em> (MMA, 1989); <em>The Wright’s Ferry Mansion: The Collection</em> (contributing author); and the <em>Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion</em> (contributing author). Ms. Majer has lectured on various aspects of clothing history throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and is a contributor to
the yearly Cora Ginsburg catalogue. She also serves on the English and Continental Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Vetting Committee at <a href="http://www.winterantiquesshow.com/" target="_blank" class="grey">The Winter Antiques Show</a>.
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<span class="headline2">Billy DeGregorio</span>
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<br><img src="images/gallery/billy.jpg" width="190" height="235" style="padding: 0 3px; float: right;"> Billy DeGregorio has been with the gallery since 2012 as a research assistant. He writes for the annual Cora Ginsburg catalogue and completed his Ph.D. in 2021 at the Bard Graduate Center in New York, where he studied eighteenth-century material culture, the history of the haute couture, collectors, and the relationship between fashion and museums in the United States, in particular at the Museum of the City of New York. He is the author of <em>English Needlework 1600–1740. The Percival D. Griffiths Collection, Volume II</em> (Yale University Press, 2022). He has contributed to the exhibition catalogues <em>Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s</em> (FIT, 2014), <em>Staging Fashion, 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke</em> (Bard Graduate Center, 2012), <em>Scaasi: American Couturier</em> (MFA Boston, 2010), and <em>Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art</em> (BGC, 2013). He also served as conservation technician and research assistant at the Museum of the City of New York, working on the exhibitions <em>Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip</em> (2017) and <em>Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced</em> (2013).</p>
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<p> </p><span class="headline2">Martina D'Amato</span>
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<br><img src="images/gallery/martina.jpg" width="190" height="235" style="padding: 0 3px; float: right;"> Gallery manager and research associate Martina D'Amato joined Cora Ginsburg LLC in 2015. She is a doctoral candidate at the Bard Graduate Center studying Italian and French decorative arts and design, and the intersection of historicism, collecting, and politics in 19th-century France and Italy. She writes for the annual Cora Ginsburg catalogue and has contributed to the following publications: "Europe: A Tale of Clouded Silk," in <em>Global Ikat: A World of Compelling Cloth</em> (Hali Publications, forthcoming); "Il passa les Alpes avec ses trésors : Louis Carrand and Florence," in <em>Florence, ville d'art, et les Français la création d'un mythe</em> (Centre André Chastel and Campisano Editore, 2022); <em>The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design</em> (2015); and <em>Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art</em> (BGC, 2013). She has also worked as a research assistant at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts and was previously Curatorial Fellow at the BGC; exhibitions include <em>Design by the Book: Illustrating the Chinese Ritual Classics</em> (2017), <em>The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing</em> (2015), and <em>Visualizing 19th-Century New York</em> (2014).
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