Product Description: This volume is the first to survey the Metropolitan Museum's world-renowned collection of European furniture. One hundred and three examples from the Museum's vast holdings are featured. They originate in workshops in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, or Spain and date from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century...read more

Product Description: "A splendid and long overdue appreciation of a peerless painter of fine interiors, with a vivid picture of American expatriate life in France."-Louis Auchincloss This stylish book re-creates the charmed life of two American expatriates in France at the turn of the 20th century-the noted artist Walter Gay and his wife, Matilda, whose glittering social circle included John Singer Sargent, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and many other artists and aristocrats...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The decorative arts were brought to an extraodinary level of refinement and sophistication in France during the eighteenth century. This achievement can be fully seen in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, through the generosity of Mrs...read more