Honore Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ebeniste in Federal New York by Peter M. Kenny; Charles Honore Lannuier; Frances F. Bretter; Ulrich Leben; N. Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York - 1998-06

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. Softcover. NF/NF. Color-illustrated wraps with gold/black lettering on turmeric spine. 272 pp. with 101 color plates, 137 bw illustrations. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition, "Honore Lannuier, Parisian Cabinetmaker in Federal New York," shown at The Met from March - June 1998. Although his brief but productive career as a cabinetmaker in New York lasted a mere sixteen years, the French-born maitre ebeniste Charles-Honore Lannuier (1779-1819) was a leading figure in the development of a distinctive and highly refined style of furniture in the Late Federal period. A contemporary of the renowned master Duncan Phyfe, Lannuier, like him, made fashionable gilded card tables, marble-topped pier tables, bedsteads, and seating furniture for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, and Savannah. This volume, which complements the exhibition "Honore Lannuier, Parisian Cabinetmaker in… Read More

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