When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...
The mauled street furniture of Dalhousie Square, stolen cast iron fencings and streetlights that were installed to create a look of the place as it was in the late 18th century when the square was the ...
elevating them to statement pieces in 18th-century French homes. Sometimes trends cycle back decades later, but often pieces of furniture disappear to make way for something that suits the needs ...
It’s a pattern we’ve seen before: In the 1930s, 18th-century French furniture was prized above all else, while a Picasso still life went unsold at auction; today, the reverse is true.
As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...