This volume is the first to survey the Metropolitan Museum's world-renowned collection of European furniture. One hundred and three superb examples from the Museum's vast holdings are featured. They originated in workshops in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, and Spain, and date from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. A number of these pieces belonged to such important historical figures as Pope Urban VIII, Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, and Napoleon. The selection includes chairs, tables, beds, cabinets, commodes, settees and sofas, bookcases and standing shelves, desks, fire screens, athéniennes, coffers, chests, mirrors and frames, showcases, and lighting equipment. There is also one purely decorative piece, a superb vase made for a Russian noble family who, according to one awestruck viewer, "owned all the malachite mines in the world." The makers of some of the objects are unknown, but most of the pieces can be identified by label, documentation, or style as the work of an oustanding European designer-craftsman, such as André-Charles Boulle, Thomas Chippendale, David Roentgen, or Karl Friedrich Schinkel. This volume also includes a bibliography, glossary, and index.

292 pages, 249 illustrations (134 in full color). Includes a CD-ROM with 358 additional color images and captions. 12 3/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.

European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Highlights of the Collection
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