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Stephanie Auffret

Associate Furniture Conservator and Assistant Professor

Stephanie Auffret received a Master Degree in Art History in 1998 from the University of Paris IV Sorbonne and a Master in Art Conservation from the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in 2006. She is presently finishing an Art History PhD entitled Authenticity of French Furniture: Interpretation and Conservation Issues.

A native of France, she started working in a private workshop in Paris in 1995 where she spent six years, treating mainly 18th century French furniture. She completed her training in Bordeaux and Revel, in the South of France. Deciding to enrich her experience in the United States, she was an intern at the J.P. Getty Museum during the summer of 2001, a Kress fellow at SPNEA (now known as Historic New England) in 2003-04, and an Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004-05. Before joining the Winterthur Museum, she was an Assistant Furniture Conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she treated and studied American furniture for the opening of the new American Wing in 2010.

She has lectured for private and professional audiences in Europe and the United States and authored several articles. The topics range from the study of toothing plane marks on a 17th century Parisian ebony cabinet that allowed to differentiate between different restoration campaigns, to the design of support frames for upholstery conservation. She has been part of the organization committee of the French-American Partnership, a project sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Institute for Conservation that brought more than twenty French conservators, curators and craftsmen to the United States in order to share their approaches of furniture conservation and connoisseurship. This exchange culminated in a symposium held at the Winterthur Museum in April 2006.

Stephanie Auffret joined the Winterthur Museum as an Associate Furniture Conservator in May 2008 and is an Assistant Professor in Art Conservation.