Pennoyer Newman
American
John Pierpont “JP” Morgan was one of America’s foremost financiers, bankers and art collectors of his time. He was also the grandfather of Paul Pennoyer, our company founder Cecily’s late husband. With this kind of access to Morgan’s original art pieces, Cecily, with her art history and studio arts backgrounds, felt it was important to preserve the history of many of the oldest and most distinguished designs he had collected throughout his lifetime and devised a remarkable method of casting these lead and ceramic garden objects.
J.P. Morgan’s desire for collecting art was more than just an aesthetic one. His belief in the importance it had played in the evolution of a civilization was also of primary interest to him. Whether it was the Gutenberg bible or the ancient oil jar shapes or cisterns and vessels that were used to capture and transport water, it was recognized by Morgan to be an object of art that was significant to his collection.
Our mission at Pennoyer Newman is three-fold: to purvey, protect and preserve not just the design legacies beheld within each garden object we collect, but also the legacy of families and the estates upon which our pieces once adorned.
Our Founder
CECILY PENNOYER
Cecily Pennoyer founded and created Pennoyer Castings Company in 1991 and introduced, at that time, the first-ever replicas of stone resin garden pots in the United States. Motivated both by her access to unique one-of-a-kind garden pots and her lifelong study of art history and studio arts, she created replicas of their J.P. Morgan family originals to use as gifts for relatives and close friends. Not only were her designs unique, the materials she used to cast the pots were the finest. Using marble, rock and resin the garden containers looked exactly like their lead originals and were created to be lightweight and weather-resistant in all climates and all regions of the country. It was on March 16, 2021, at the age of 93 that Cecily died. Cecily will remain in our hearts and minds forever!
J.P. Morgan’s desire for collecting art was more than just an aesthetic one. His belief in the importance it had played in the evolution of a civilization was also of primary interest to him. Whether it was the Gutenberg bible or the ancient oil jar shapes or cisterns and vessels that were used to capture and transport water, it was recognized by Morgan to be an object of art that was significant to his collection.
Our mission at Pennoyer Newman is three-fold: to purvey, protect and preserve not just the design legacies beheld within each garden object we collect, but also the legacy of families and the estates upon which our pieces once adorned.
Our Founder
CECILY PENNOYER
Cecily Pennoyer founded and created Pennoyer Castings Company in 1991 and introduced, at that time, the first-ever replicas of stone resin garden pots in the United States. Motivated both by her access to unique one-of-a-kind garden pots and her lifelong study of art history and studio arts, she created replicas of their J.P. Morgan family originals to use as gifts for relatives and close friends. Not only were her designs unique, the materials she used to cast the pots were the finest. Using marble, rock and resin the garden containers looked exactly like their lead originals and were created to be lightweight and weather-resistant in all climates and all regions of the country. It was on March 16, 2021, at the age of 93 that Cecily died. Cecily will remain in our hearts and minds forever!
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