Russian Furniture: The Golden Age 1780-1840
New York: The Vendome Press, 1988. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards with gold spine lettering. Color-illus. black dj with gold lettering. 312 pp. with more than 300 photographs in color and bw; with color and bw illus. as well. VG (Former owner's name on ffep - Russian art curator) / VG- with light corner chipping and back cover rubbing. Original price sticker on back. Item #146479
Cheneviere examines the Golden Age chronologically, "focusing on piecs that are either well documented of especially representative of the style under consideration. He highlights particularly talented or distinguished artists...and closes the main text with a detailed accoutn of the extraordinary Russian art of producing furniture in steel and hard stones." With an appendix of bios of artisans of the era; with a description of Pavlovsk by Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna from 1795. A stunning catalogue with pieces in malachite, inlay, gold; and with more "ordinary" pieces.
Price: $40.00