Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of Art, 1996 - 312 pagina's Superb examples of interior design through the ages are on view in the period room at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Supplementing the stunning photographs of the rooms are historical photographs and engravings and close-up shots of selected ornaments and pieces of furniture, enabling the reader to see details that are often inaccessible to Museum visitors. |
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Adam AMELIA PECK American Wing architect architectural armchairs bedroom boiseries building built cabinetmaker Cabris carpet carved ceiling chimneypiece cloister color cornice court courtyard Croome Croome Court curators Cuxa dining room door ébéniste eighteenth-century England English entrance facade fireplace wall floor frame François Boucher French frieze front furnished furniture gallery garden gilded gilt gilt-bronze Gothic Gothic Revival Greek Revival Gubbio hall Hôtel installed intarsia interior Italian John Kirtlington Louis XV mahogany mantel marble Marie Antoinette marquetry Metropolitan Museum mirror molding motifs Museum of Art Museum's room Neoclassical nineteenth century OPPOSITE original ornament overdoors overmantel painted pair palace panels Paris parlor patio period rooms pieces plaster porcelain reception room Rensselaer Revival Robert Adam Rococo room's Sagredo Savonnerie sculpture Shaker Shelburne side chairs space stucco studiolo style tapestry room Tessé trompe-l'oeil Varengeville Vélez Blanco Verplanck visitor wood woodwork York City