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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Initiative-Proect Manager Leslie Burks (left) assists Carlos as he uses a power screwdriver when Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans volunteer, during District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Another table-scrap MOC I built while I was cleaning off my worktable last week... and yet another MOC using those Bionicle claw/blade pieces. I think this ened up looking more like a snow-mobile than a speeder bike, but oh well.
Skin: Essences - Jamie in Medium.02 (gift) ♥
Hair: D!va - "Naomi" in Black Amber (comes with/without texture change scarf; past gift)
Eyes: VerseEye - Rhythm in Pink
Shirt: Milk Motion - Queen tee in white (gift)
Pants: MAAI - "Toot" pants in Peach (new!)
Shoes: Insanya - Kat Boots Sport in Black
Glasses: !df - Round Glasses (not available anymore)
Poses: Frakture Poses - Female model/blogger 2 & Male model/blogger 1 (SLFO gift)
Canvas sign: Free Bird - Darker Side Canvas (Erotigacha item)
Table: Soy - worktable (gift)
Folded shirts: Soy - Folded Tee (gift)
Flowers: The Mustard Seed - hydrangeas in vintage vase
Books: BananaN - full perm mesh book (not available anymore)
Coffee: Dutchie - Coffee mug stand (marketplace gift)
Key: EntecMedia - skeleton key 5 (marketplace gift)
Open book: What Next - Alone reading book (wear me)
(Note: I had to remove the links from flickr. This was an older sponsored post that might no longer be available on my blog.)
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Purple and Hildegard von Resin the hybrid doll hanging out.
If you thought the second dolls name was in reference to Hildeard von blingn' -the person on Youtube who remixes modern music in ancient styles- you are correct. www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ_jwWjf8u5mdtac71Be8QA
This is my worktable looking like a mess but really I have been very productive. I sorted through all the doll clothes that needed to be finished, mended or thrown away. Tiny Betsy got a new red jacket after I repaired the snaps and buttons. Barbie got a new dress and there is more to do. I worked most of the day on a challenging project so when it was finished I needed something mindless to do.
Kelin Perry kitchen island bar table. Base designed and fabricated by Slab Fab Studio. 2 " copper clad top fabricated by Jim Ojamaa of Asheville NC.
The bespoke pieces combine perfectly with the classic worktable in this lovely cosy design. The girls loved it!
Utrecht University Library – Wiel Arets Architects
Size: 36.250 m2 - Design: 1997-2001 - Completion: 2004
The library, which houses 4.2 million books, was intended, in addition to being a place where people could work in a concentrated manner, to also become the intellectual social center for the suburban university campus, where students and others can come to study and meet at all times of the day. The 40 meter tall library and the adjacent, lower parking garage, both clad in glass and concrete imprinted with the same silk-screened figurative pattern, are sited on the major road and pedestrian pathway across the campus. The simple rectangular massing of the library and the repetitive rhythm of its concrete cladding and glazing, which is subtly modulated by the projecting operable sections, stands in stark contrast to the rich, plastic spatial complexity of the interior spaces.
The books are stored in two primary volumes that seem to float up towards the ceiling. The massive, lifted book stack volumes are made of black-painted cast concrete, and the walls have a three-dimensional figural pattern cast into them which matches the two-dimensional pattern imprinted on the exterior glazing. While the black pattern on the glazing filters the natural light entering the building, the pattern embossed in the black-colored concrete walls acts to diffuse and bounce the light deeper into the interior spaces. At the center of the building, a vertical space, running from the ground to the roof, is opened between the two book stack volumes, which are interconnected by a series of stairs and sloping ramps. This central vertical space forms the experiential hinge of the building, interweaving the lines of movement, the spatial layers, and the internal views.
The walls and ceilings of the interior are black and matt, while the floors are white and shiny. The bookshelves are black, while the worktables are white. The predominant black color characterizing the interior is critical to creating the atmosphere of concentration, security, and silent communication essential to the function of the library. The black interior creates a feeling of local enclosure, allowing the inhabitants to conduct the private activity of concentrated study in a public place of collective identity. The only exceptions to this color scheme are the red rubber surfaces used in the book checkout area, the information desks, the auditorium, the bar, and the lounge, all of which are related to the itinerary of public movement through the building.
The individual workspaces are organized in a wide variety of locations and arrangements within the interior, some quite intimate and isolated, and some quite extended and exposed. The individual user can make a choice of where to work, and thus to determine both their ability to be absorbed in their work, and the amount of communication they wish to have with others in the library. Because of the remarkably rich range of sizes and shapes of the workplaces, and the complexly layered sections and the endlessly unfolding spatial intersections within the building, it is possible to recognize and communicate visually with people across the interior, and even from floor to floor, while at the same time being undisturbed by those sitting nearby.
John Marshall (left) and team open the box for a prefabricated toolshed they will assemble where U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans have come to volunteer in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
collage made from all the "extra" stuff that had built up on my worktable. not that i was too lazy to clean up in the conventional way or anything, lol! :)
blogged here:
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Utrecht University Library – Wiel Arets Architects
Size: 36.250 m2 - Design: 1997-2001 - Completion: 2004
The library, which houses 4.2 million books, was intended, in addition to being a place where people could work in a concentrated manner, to also become the intellectual social center for the suburban university campus, where students and others can come to study and meet at all times of the day. The 40 meter tall library and the adjacent, lower parking garage, both clad in glass and concrete imprinted with the same silk-screened figurative pattern, are sited on the major road and pedestrian pathway across the campus. The simple rectangular massing of the library and the repetitive rhythm of its concrete cladding and glazing, which is subtly modulated by the projecting operable sections, stands in stark contrast to the rich, plastic spatial complexity of the interior spaces.
The books are stored in two primary volumes that seem to float up towards the ceiling. The massive, lifted book stack volumes are made of black-painted cast concrete, and the walls have a three-dimensional figural pattern cast into them which matches the two-dimensional pattern imprinted on the exterior glazing. While the black pattern on the glazing filters the natural light entering the building, the pattern embossed in the black-colored concrete walls acts to diffuse and bounce the light deeper into the interior spaces. At the center of the building, a vertical space, running from the ground to the roof, is opened between the two book stack volumes, which are interconnected by a series of stairs and sloping ramps. This central vertical space forms the experiential hinge of the building, interweaving the lines of movement, the spatial layers, and the internal views.
The walls and ceilings of the interior are black and matt, while the floors are white and shiny. The bookshelves are black, while the worktables are white. The predominant black color characterizing the interior is critical to creating the atmosphere of concentration, security, and silent communication essential to the function of the library. The black interior creates a feeling of local enclosure, allowing the inhabitants to conduct the private activity of concentrated study in a public place of collective identity. The only exceptions to this color scheme are the red rubber surfaces used in the book checkout area, the information desks, the auditorium, the bar, and the lounge, all of which are related to the itinerary of public movement through the building.
The individual workspaces are organized in a wide variety of locations and arrangements within the interior, some quite intimate and isolated, and some quite extended and exposed. The individual user can make a choice of where to work, and thus to determine both their ability to be absorbed in their work, and the amount of communication they wish to have with others in the library. Because of the remarkably rich range of sizes and shapes of the workplaces, and the complexly layered sections and the endlessly unfolding spatial intersections within the building, it is possible to recognize and communicate visually with people across the interior, and even from floor to floor, while at the same time being undisturbed by those sitting nearby.
A close up of the sink area showns the brushed nickel taps and the cup hooks fashioned from fariers nails.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More the 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Washington Capitals' hockey mascot Slapshot is seen perched in a planter box that he took for a penalty box and brought in some volunteer offenders, Charles, Carlos and Ron, for a flock photo, when U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans volunteer in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More the 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Spring doesn’t arrive all at once.
It gathers quietly... a change in the light, a pastel thread in the hand... something new taking shape on the worktable.
The Glen always knows before we do.
🌿
Right now on my worktable : rubber carving in progress. I've made a cute couple and now I'm working on their accessories.
Washington Capitals' hockey mascot Slapshot tries to reposition the planter box uprights, as volunteer Carlos happily try to explain that uprights need to be up, and at a right-angle to the base, when U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans volunteer in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More the 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside murals, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
The “INKredible 2″ Pack includes 20 NEW polymer clay patterns sheets designs introducing a variety & mix of materials to use along with alcohol inks.
These sheets can be applied in any bead, jewel, or accessory of your choice – flat or curved, small or large.
I implemented my pattern sheets on earrings & beads.
The materials I used are probably already in your polymer clay toolbox, taken from many of my previous classes –
Alcohol inks, chalk pastels, paints, stazon inks, stencils etc.
This class is a new version of my known previous INKredible class, now offering a celebration of exciting, new techniques, encouraging you to use anything on your worktable, along with alcohol inks.
20 patterns came out of my personal laboratory, but the combinations are infinite!
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If you are interested in combining these beads in elaborated, impressive Micro Macrame knotting, you are welcome to check out the new "INKredible Macrame" class -
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Within the first few moments you feel like you have owned this kitchen for years. Everything is familiar, subtle and informal from the first moment.
This is a nice close-up shot of the interior. I built it mostly according to the instructions.
Sometimes the devil is in the details.
There are tiny little price tags for the various bakery items, and the prices (shown in US dollars) are hilarious and outrageous. It might have come from an imperfect translation of RMB to dollars, as if it were 1:1 instead of 6:1. Even in a foodie town, we don't pay $6.00 for a jumbo-breadstick baguette. I recalculated the prices based on real life and printed a new set of price tags.
Originally I didn't understand why a bakery would sell boxes of raisins. But, when back counter went together, it finally hit me that it was meant to be a worktable with a "cake under construction".
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans are volunteering in District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day, on Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Washington, D.C. Each year people are invited to help “spruce up” public school facilities in preparation for the first day of school. More than 70 volunteers pitched in at this large school facility. The People’s Garden effort involves building and painting raised planter boxes, then preparing the soil mixture so they are “ready to grow.” Additionally, a team that includes descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall assembles a prefabricated garden toolshed. The Justice’s son, John Marshall leads the team, which includes Brianna the Justice’s great-grand daughter in one of many multi-generational efforts at this school today. Washington Capitals Forward Mike Riberio, his family and mascot Slapshot participated in every project underway at Marshall School. From the outside gardens, to inside mural painting, and robotics worktable construction, the teams made their goals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Neutral postcard from bits on my worktable. Acrylic paint on recycled cardboard box, herb bag for soup, vintage meat words
Dark colours and contemporary knobs ensure that this design remains clean and sharp but keeps its timeless appeal.
Photograph of U.S. Navy photographer Guy O. Cox of Wilson, N.C., reading a document while sitting on a worktable in the photo laboratory aboard the Navy aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), during World War II (undated).
From Guy O. Cox Papers, WWII 165, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Deluxe Verandah Suites
Category: SA, SB, SC
2 lower beds convertible to 1 king-size bed, bathroom with dual sink vanity, full-size whirlpool bath, shower and additional shower stall, large sitting area, dressing room, private verandah, 1 sofa bed for 2 persons, floor-to-ceiling windows. Approximately 510-700 sq. ft. with verandah
Stateroom amenities include:
•Complimentary laundry, pressing and dry cleaning throughout your cruise
•Premium duvet, oversize bath towels and soft, cotton bathrobes and slippers
•Gorgeous corsages and boutonnieres for the first formal night
•Hors d'oeuvres served before dinner each evening on request
•Binoculars and umbrellas for your use on the cruise
•Cocktail party with ship officers
•Priority boarding for tender ports of call
•Special disembarkation service
•Priority dining and seating requests
•Exclusive daily breakfast service for suite guests only
•High tea service in suite on request
•A special Suite guest lunch event on cruises over 7 days in length
•A very special amenity exclusively for guests cruising in a Deluxe Verandah Suite or Penthouse Verandah Suite, the industry-leading Neptune Lounge features a private place to relax, socialize with other suite guests and enjoy the personalized service of a concierge. The fleet-wide lounges provide worktables, large screen television, library, sofas and chairs, refreshments throughout the day and wi-fi for a small charge. One-Touch 24-hour Concierge Service is available when the Neptune Lounge is closed.
The Chalon worktable is one of those classic chalon pieces that is often emulated but never equalled. The sheer weight and scale of these pieces impose warm authority into the space the occupy. Instantly calming and restorative. Clients can be reassured that they will preserve their values for the years ahead.
The “INKredible 2″ Pack includes 20 NEW polymer clay patterns sheets designs introducing a variety & mix of materials to use along with alcohol inks.
These sheets can be applied in any bead, jewel, or accessory of your choice – flat or curved, small or large.
I implemented my pattern sheets on earrings & beads.
The materials I used are probably already in your polymer clay toolbox, taken from many of my previous classes –
Alcohol inks, chalk pastels, paints, stazon inks, stencils etc.
This class is a new version of my known previous INKredible class, now offering a celebration of exciting, new techniques, encouraging you to use anything on your worktable, along with alcohol inks.
20 patterns came out of my personal laboratory, but the combinations are infinite!
www.polypediaonlineexpress.com/product/complete-inkredibl...
If you are interested in combining these beads in elaborated, impressive Micro Macrame knotting, you are welcome to check out the new "INKredible Macrame" class -
www.polypediaonlineexpress.com/inkredible2-inkredible-mac...
Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon
•Designer: Pierre-Adrien Paris (French, 1747-1819)
•Date: ca. 1777-1780
•Culture: French, Paris
•Medium: Oak, painted and gilded
•Dimensions:
oOverall: 9 ft. 3½ in. × 15 ft. 5½ in. × 14 ft. 3 in. (283.2 × 471.2 × 435.6 cm)
•Classification: Woodwork
•Credit Line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1944
•Accession Number: 44.128
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
[Arabesques] are an inexhaustible source of ways to decorate in a beautiful style the interior and exterior of modern buildings, furniture, and even clothes.
—Charles-Louis Clérisseau, 1779
Delightful arabesques painted in pastel colors on a soft blue ground form the chief decoration of this paneling, which once lined the walls of a boudoir located next to the bedroom of Louis-Marie-Augustin, fifth duc d’Aumont (1709-1782), one of the four First Gentlemen of the King’s Bedchamber. In 1776 he rented an unfinished town house that had been constructed for the builder and entrepreneur Louis-François Trouard (1729-1794). It was one of several private mansions erected behind a facade built in a grand Neoclassical style by Jacques-Ange Gabriel (1698-1782) on the place Louis XV, now the place de la Concorde.
A man of taste as well as a significant art collector, the duc d’Aumont engaged the architect Pierre-Adrien Pâris to design the interior decoration for his new abode. Having studied in Rome, partly at the duke’s expense, Pâris would have been familiar with the early sixteenth-century decorative wall paintings executed by Raphael and his assistants in the Vatican loggias. Raphael’s work clearly served as inspiration for the embellishment of the Museum’s paneling, as it shows similar charming and lighthearted motifs, such as small animals balancing on garlands and rolling acanthus scrolls. The exterior windows of this intimate polyhedral boudoir, which was painted by an unknown artist, gave access to a balcony with views toward the rue des Champs-Élysées (now the rue Boissy d’Anglas). Set into the wall paneling are four mirrors angled to reflect the arabesque decoration. (The mirror inside the niche is a replacement for the original pane of clear glass that allowed light to shine into the stairwell behind the room.) According to the 1782 inventory drawn up after the duke’s death, the boudoir was furnished with four stools, two armchairs, and an ottomane, or comfortable sofa, described as having three backs. Each stool was most likely placed under one of the mirrors, and the ottomane, complete with cushions, pillows, and bolsters, must have stood inside the niche. All the seat furniture was upholstered in blue moiré silk, the same color as that of the gros de Tours (ribbed silk) curtains. Although most of the furnishings and collections of the duc d’Aumont were sold at a celebrated auction that took place in the house in 1782, the woodwork of this room stayed in the building. The hôtel was acquired six years later by François-Félix-Dorothée des Balbes de Berton, comte de Crillon (1748-1820), and it remained the property of his descendants until the early twentieth century.
Epigraph. Quoted in Hautecoeur 1912, p. 46.
Provenance
Hôtel de Crillon, 10, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France; Louis Trouard (by 1776); Félix François Dorothée Berton des Balbes, Comte de Crillon (1788-d. 1827); Marie Louise Amélie Berton des Balbes (duchesse de Polignac) (until d. 1904); Duc(s) de Polignac (until 1906; sold to Bliss, through Mme Gaëton Désache (née Flandin), January 13, 1906); Mrs. George T. Bliss (from 1906); Susan Dwight Bliss , New York (until 1944; to MMA)
Timeline of Art History
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
MetPublications
•The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•Period Rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
Carpet
•Manufactory: Beauvais
•Date: ca. 1787-1790
•Culture: French, Beauvais
•Medium: Wool
•Dimensions:
oOverall (Confirmed): 102¾ × 66½ in. (261 × 168.9 cm)
•Classification: Textiles-Rugs
•Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976
•Accession Number: 1976.155.102
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York (until 1976; to MMA).
Timeline of Art History
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
MetPublications
•The Wrightsman Collection. Vols. 1 and 2, Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets
•A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Side Chair
•Maker: Bovo
•Date: ca. 1780-1785
•Culture: French
•Medium: Carved and Gilded Beechwood, Covered in 18th-Century Cream-Colored Silk Tabby Upholstery
•Dimensions: 34⅝ × 21 × 19 in. (87.9 × 53.3 × 48.3 cm)
•Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
•Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1977
•Accession Number: 1977.213
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
•Inscription:
oStamped Under Front Seat Rail: BOVO
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York (until 1977; to MMA).
Timeline of Art History
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
Armchair (Bergère) (Part of a Set)
•Maker(s): Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (1748-1803); Painted and Gilded by Louis-François Chatard (ca. 1749-1819)
•Date: ca. 1788
•Culture: French, Paris
•Medium: Carved, painted and gilded walnut; modern cotton twill embroidered in silk
•Dimensions:
oOverall: 39 × 27¼ × 25¼ in. (99.1 × 69.2 × 64.1 cm)
•Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
•Credit Line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1941
•Accession Number: 41.205.2
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
Made for Marie-Antoinette’s dressing room at the château de Saint Cloud. The queen’s initials are carved on the top rail.
Provenance
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Cabinet de Toilette, Palace of Saint-Cloud, France (by 1788); Marquis de Casaux (until 1923; sale, Hôtel Drout, Paris, December 21, 1923, No. A); George and Florence Blumenthal (from 1923); Ann Payne Blumenthal (until 1941; to MMA).
Timeline of Art History
•Essays
oFrench Furniture in the Eighteenth Century: Seat Furniture
oThe Golden Age of French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
MetPublications
•A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•“French Royal Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 63, no. 3 (Winter, 2006)
•European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Highlights of the Collection
•Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
Candelstand and Worktable (Table à Ouvrage en Guéridon)
•Maker: Attributed to Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix (French, 1727-1799)
•Factory: Porcelain plaques by Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740-Present)
•Decorator: Porcelain plaques decorated by Charles Vandé (French, active 1785-91)
•Date: ca. 1785
•Culture: French, Sèvres
•Medium: Oak veneered with tulipwood, boxwood, holly and ebonized holly, sycamore, and other woods; soft-paste porcelain, gilt bronze, silk
•Dimensions:
oHeight: 31⅛ in. (79.1 cm)
oDiameter of Top: 14⅝ in. (37.1 cm)
•Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
•Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976
•Accession Number: 1976.155.106
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
The top of this elegant worktable was meant to be used as a guéridon, to support a candelstick offering light when the owner, most likely an aristocratic woman, was working on her needlepoint or sewing at night.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
•Marking:
oGlazed on Back of Plaque and Painted in Gold: interlaced Ls enclosing GG with letter V below [Sèvres factory mark with date-letters for 1784]
Provenance
The Lords Hillingdon, London; Edith Chester Beatty, London; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York (until 1976; to MMA)
Timeline of Art History
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
MetPublications
•The Wrightsman Collection. Vols. 1 and 2, Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets
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