Registration

• Admission for this special event is $15.

• Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email rsvp@rosenbach.org.

• This program is for those 18 and older.

• Registration opens for Delancey Society members on Friday, March 14, for Rosenbach members on Friday, March 21, and for the general public on Friday, March 28. Registration opens at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Description

Can you imagine living inside a Gilded Age gentleman’s library? 

For the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s neighbor, John Y. Wind, who also happens to be an accomplished studio artist and well-known jewelry designer, this bookish dream is a reality. Wind and his husband Bill Osman reside in what once was the monumental library of Philadelphian book collector John Frederick Lewis, who lived just paces from Dr. Rosenbach’s Delancey Place home and, unsurprisingly, was an important customer of the Rosenbach Company. 

Artist John Y. Wind

Image credit: Christopher Tyler Studio

Wind is also a featured artist in the inaugural installation of Treasures from the Rosenbach’s Collection: History of the Material Text, opening June 16, 2025. Wind’s artwork in the exhibition was inspired by his exploration of the history of John Frederick Lewis and the Rosenbachs, which shed light on Wind’s thinking about his own identity as he refurbished his spectacular library home. 

Join Wind at the Rosenbach’s brand new exhibition, Treasures from the Rosenbach’s Collection: History of the Material Text for a special viewing of his artworks and a tour of the show before stepping outside for a walk to the John Frederick Lewis / John Yaron Wind home on Delancey Place.