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Hidden Doors and Secret Drawers: Furniture by the Roentgens

Wolfram Koeppe, the Marina Kellen French Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses the intricate furniture designs created by Abraham and David Roentgen. The father-and-son team created innovative designs that were combined with intriguing mechanical devices to revolutionize traditional French and English furniture types.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, on view October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition and catalogue are made possible by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

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Clément Massier (ca. 1845–1917)

Designer:: Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French, Algiers 1865–1953 Le Vésinet)
Date:: 1901
Culture:: French (Golfe Juan)
Medium:: Stoneware
Dimensions:: Diameter: 19 in. (48.3 cm)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Purchase, The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, and Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, Gifts of Charlotte C. Weber, George Coe Graves, Bernard Baruch, and Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 2002
Accession Number:: 2002.56

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