Hardbound
1996 · NY
by Peck, Amelia et al.
NY: Abrams, 1996. Hardbound. VG+/VG+. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine, glossy color illustrted dust jacket, 312 pp. 70 bw, 219 color plates. 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 (truncated)