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A Taste for Splendor: Russian Imperial and European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum
by Odom, Anne; Liana Paredes Arend
- Used
- Condition
- VG, slight wear to extremities.
- ISBN 10
- 0883971283
- ISBN 13
- 9780883971284
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Alexandria, Virginia: Art Services International, 1998. Softcover. VG, slight wear to extremities.. Color wraps. 340 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. The Hillwood Museum in Washington houses the Russian Imperial and European art collected by Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post, an accomplished businesswoman and passionate connoisseur. The collection is unique in the United States and probably in the world outside Russia and was started when Post accompanied her husband, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, to Russia in 1937-38. Excellent photographs convey the beauty of the house and the splendor with which it was decorated. The collection contains pieces in every artistic medium including porcelain, landscape paintings, portraits, furniture, gold and silver objects, crystal, enamel boxes, and more?and each piece is a work of the highest quality and so arranged that one understands the full range of Russian Imperial achievement in the visual arts. This volume should be included in every library where works on Russian art and culture are collected. (Martin Chasin).
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18227
- Title
- A Taste for Splendor: Russian Imperial and European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum
- Author
- Odom, Anne; Liana Paredes Arend
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG, slight wear to extremities.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0883971283
- ISBN 13
- 9780883971284
- Publisher
- Art Services International
- Place of Publication
- Alexandria, Virginia
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- russian; european; decorative arts ; Hillwood Museum Collection ; european ; decorative arts
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- VG
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