"This furniture allowed you to move in certain ways that might be seductive."
Curator Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide on a mechanical table by Jean-François Oeben.
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Why do some call this table seductive?
"This furniture allowed you to move in certain ways that might be seductive."
Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide
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Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide
Henry R. Kravis Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Henry R. Kravis Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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Jean-François Oeben
and Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix
ca. 1761–63
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