Vertiginous
Nicholas Penny, 12 December 1996
Grands Décors français 1650-1800
by Bruno Pons.
Faton, 439 pp., £130, June 1995,2 87844 023 4 Show More
by Bruno Pons.
Faton, 439 pp., £130, June 1995,
Chardin
by Marianne Roland Michel, translated by Eithne McCarthy.
Thames and Hudson, 293 pp., £60, March 1996,0 500 09259 1 Show More
by Marianne Roland Michel, translated by Eithne McCarthy.
Thames and Hudson, 293 pp., £60, March 1996,
“... and the Metropolitan Museum). In the first part of Grands Décors français 1650-1800 the late Bruno Pons traces the history of the reuse of French panelling and of the fashion, in both private homes and museums, for the ‘period room’. He surveys with sharp but uncensorious intelligence the interventions of both collectors and conservationists and ... ”
