240 x 170 mm, paperback, 3 vols., 1700 pages, 1150 illustrations
PRICE: £100.00
ISBN: 9780900785511
The Wallace Collection has the finest collection of eighteenth-century furniture outside France. Numbering over five hundred pieces, it includes furniture by the greatest Parisian cabinet makers, beginning with André-Charles Boulle and continuing through the major craftsmen of the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI.
The Catalogue of Furniture replaces has 337 entries, some covering more than one piece of furniture, and is divided into three volumes, each one containing beautiful illustrations.
The entries cover the materials, construction and decoration of each piece, with an account of its history and a commentary on its dating, style and maker.
There is an introduction recounting the part played by different generations of the Hertford family in acquiring the furniture 1667 pages 384 colour illustrations, 689 black and white illustrations and 33 diagrams and musical scores.
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