‘Salvaging The Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts’
Georges Hoentschel (1855-1915) was a leading French interior designer in historic styles, head of a decorating firm, and ceramicist during the Belle Epoque. He found inspiration for his designs in Medieval and eighteenth-century French art, which he avidly collected amassing more than 4000 pieces of furniture, woodwork, metalwork, sculpture, paintings, and textiles. After visiting Hoentschel … Read more
Schiaparelli and Prada: The elegant catalogue of the Metropolitan’s blockbuster exhibition
Last month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) launched its much-anticipated summer exhibition Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, which explores the affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras. For those not able to g0 to New York for the show, the sumptuous book (available now) is a thing of beauty … Read more
Beyond the Pharaohs: Met exhibition and catalogue explores the surprising origins of Ancient Egyptian art
The groundbreaking exhibition The Dawn of Egyptian Art opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this week. The show explores the origins of Egyptian art and includes rare and ancient images of people, animals and landscapes. As we discover, whilst some of these stunning objects anticipated the Pharaonic Egyptian art we know today, others remain … Read more
Impossible Conversations: Preview of the stunning exhibition catalogue ‘Schiaparelli and Prada’
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations is the stunning new exhibition catalogue from The Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute. A captivating exploration of the striking similarities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, the book features insightful texts and stunning photographs to create a ‘conversation’ between two iconic fashion designers. As advance copies have just arrived in the office, … Read more
Lost in Transition: ‘Byzantium and Islam’ at the Metropolitan Museum explores cultures in flux
The Eastern Mediterranean, from Syria across North Africa, comprised the wealthy southern provinces of the 7th century Byzantine Empire, and was central to the emerging Islamic world. Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition has just opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), and is the first to display the complex character of the region and … Read more
