Period Rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Peck, Amelia, Et.al - 1996

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. hardcover. 289 illustrations including 219 plates in full color, 312pp., 4to, cloth, d.w. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (1996). Near fine.<br/> <br/>

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 works of decorative art in an authentic setting - offer a beautifully photographed grand tour through the history of interiors. From a twelfth-century cloister from the Pyrenees to eighteenth-century French and English parlors and boudoirs to Colonial and early nineteenth-century American dining rooms and libraries, the Metropolitan's collection of… Read More

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. New. 1996. Hardcover. 0810937441 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 312 pp. With 290 ills. (220 col. ). 32 x 25 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- .