Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

KISLUK-GROSHEIDE, Danielle; KROHN, Deborah L.; LEBEN, Ulrich (eds.).

ISBN 10: 0300190247 ISBN 13: 9780300190243

Published by The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture; The Metroplitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, New York, New Haven and London, 2013

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KISLUK-GROSHEIDE, Danielle; KROHN, Deborah L.; LEBEN, Ulrich (eds.). Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York; New Haven and London: The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture; The Metroplitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2013. 4to., hardcover with dust jacket, pp. xxii, 285. Richly illustrated volume published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title at The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 4 April - 11 August, 2013. Includes essays by Christine E. Brennan, Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide, Deborah L. Krohn, Ulrich Leben and Amy F. Ogata, with contributions by Master's and Doctoral Students of the Bard Graduate Center. A fine, unread copy, with minimal, early stages of browning to page margins. Seller Inventory # 034425

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Title: Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and ...

Publisher: The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture; The Metroplitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, New York, New Haven and London

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Georges Hoentschel (1855–1915) was a leading French interior designer in historic styles, head of a decorating firm, and ceramicist during the Belle Epoque. He found inspiration for his designs in medieval and 18th-century French art, which he avidly collected, amassing more than 4,000 pieces of furniture, woodwork, metalwork, sculpture, paintings, and textiles. After visiting Hoentschel in Paris, the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan acquired the collection and bequeathed it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1906 and 1916–17. These works greatly enriched the museum’s medieval art department and became the nucleus of its decorative arts department, profoundly influencing American tastes in the early 20th century. Through texts, early documentary photographs, and images of newly conserved works, Salvaging the Past goes behind the scenes to explore the history and influence of this remarkable collection.

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This illustrated volume explores the origins and evolution of a remarkable collection of French decorative arts, first assembled by Georges Hoentschel, a leading French interior designer of the Gilded Age.

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