About this Item
Jacket edges are very lightly worn. Cover is in good condition, apart from light shelf wear. Binding is tight, and inside is clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 2049975
Bibliographic Details
Title: Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and ...
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Hard cover
Condition: Very good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
About this title
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.
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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