Period rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Amelia Peck [and others] ; photography by Karin L. Willis

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peck, Amelia

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Interior decoration--Themes, motives.

Interior decoration.

Interior architecture--Themes, motives.

Interior architecture.

Furniture--Styles.

Furniture.

Period rooms--New York (State)--New York.

Period rooms.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages) illustrations (chiefly color)

Place of Publication:

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art : [1996]

H.N. Abrams [1996]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

Superb examples of interior design through the ages are on view in the period rooms at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From an ancient Roman bedroom excavated near Pompeii to a Louis XVI grand salon from eighteenth-century Paris to the Frank Lloyd Wright Room in the American Wing, these popular exhibition galleries can now be seen for the first time in book form. Thirty-four spectacular installations - some actual rooms taken from historic buildings and some

Recreations intended to show related works of decorative art in an authentic setting - offer a beautifully photographed grand tour through the history of interiors. From a twelfth-century cloister from the Pyrenees to eighteenth-century French and English parlors and boudoirs to Colonial and early nineteenth-century American dining rooms and libraries, the Metropolitan's collection of period rooms offers a wealth of fine furniture and decorative elements. An introduction

By Museum director Philippe de Montebello explains the concept of period rooms at the Museum and how they have been developed, installed, and furnished over the past hundred years. Then, each room is depicted both in color photographs taken especially for this book and in lively narrative descriptions that include fascinating information about the original room from which the Museum's example is derived, the individuals who commissioned and carried out the decoration,

And the era that the room represents. 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 306) and index

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Period rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

OCLC:

605245297