French & Continental Furniture, Decorations & Clocks
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)
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Published: 1988-12
Total Pages: 186
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Author: Sotheby's (Firm)
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Published: 1988-12
Total Pages: 186
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clare Vincent
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2015-11-25
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1588395790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
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Published: 1973
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 296
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 562
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Published: 1979-09-10
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
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Published: 1982-06-28
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.