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There is lots of period pine finish in this kitchen and also the worktable is very open. Great for working or sitting!
Chalon used this image in its advertising as it combines great proportions with a popular colour palette.
U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Emily Orler removing weeds in a walkway, during People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans volunteer effort with the 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 for planting.” 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.
I'm planning a sewing room for my Blythes and that's what I started with at the weekend. I ordered a sewing machine as well and the rement sewing kit. Now I need a worktable and a chair. And maybe another shelf?
School front and existing raised garden beds, before U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans arrive to volunteer in the 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.
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I very much enjoyed being a part of a daily flickr project again. And a month at a time is something I can definitely handle. My only regret is I didn't get a shot of my hands slicing into a polymer clay cane. I'd had that in mind since day one, but I never managed to get the clay out onto the worktable.
Thank you for joining me in this little project!
1. 1/31 :: Making Breakfast, 2. 2/31 :: Making Blueberry-Raspberry Pound Cake / Self Portrait Thursday, 3. 3/31 :: Doing Laundry, 4. 4/31 :: Having a Holiday Breakfast, 5. 5/31 :: Sewing a skirt, 6. 6/31 :: Putting together outfits, 7. 7/31 :: Facebooking, 8. 8/31 :: Going Places, 9. 9/31 :: Getting Dressed, 10. 10/31 :: Making Good on a Bribe, 11. 11/31 :: Lunching with my Peeps, 12. 12/31 :: Fueling Up, 13. 13/31 :: Working up the Nerve, 14. 14/31 :: Choosing Colors, 15. 15/31 :: Checking for Ripeness, 16. 16/31 :: Ripping out Seams, 17. 17/31 :: Auditioning Buttons, 18. 18/31 :: Going on a Date, 19. 19/31 :: Deciding, 20. 20/31 :: Making Supper, 21. 21/31 :: Perusing the New Merch, 22. 22/31 :: Removing Nail Polish, 23. 23/31 :: Checking out the new 'do, 24. 24/31 :: Charging Credit Cards Over Breakfast, 25. 25/31 :: Washing Dishes, 26. 26/31 :: Sorting Neglected Mail, 27. 27/31 :: Bringing Home the Bacon, 28. 28/31 :: Thrift Shopping, 29. 29/31 :: Tying one on, 30. 30/31 :: Caffeinating myself, 31. 31/31 :: Doing NOTHING
This is the third journal I've worked in for the round robin journal swap on swap-bot. This one went from Canada to Australia and then here to Massachusetts.
Made from bits on my worktable, a paper napkin butterfly, a rescued stamp, and a piece from one of the 50 1920's-1940's Nat Geos that I bought today at the thrift store.
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.
When baking in a Chalon Original Kitchen; it's a lot of fun but remember to save some cakes for the guests.
Descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, son, John Marshall and his grand-daughter Brianna attach window panels to a skylight section of a prefabricated garden toolshed, when the 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. They are one of many multi-generational families volunteering at this school today. 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.” 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.
This one of a series of books made from the paper I place on my worktable. They form a diary of marks related to the period of time they are in place. Some have dates, this one does not. The paper here is a commercially bought handmade paper, the front nad back covers have been coated in beeswax to give them some strength.
This paricular book contains rust marks.
It has a tape binding, so all pages will open flat, the tape used is naturally dyed silk which has then been made into silk string which wraps around the book and is tied to secure it.
The book can either be left as an artist's book or you can enter into a collaboration with me
by working into the pages
If you do that please share the results with me
For more pictures go to my blog soewnearth.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/incidental-marks.html
Book is 15 x 8cm (6 x 31/2")and has 60 pages.
On my work table (the dining-room table), some tools and some sketchbooks:
I acknowledge,organizing myself with Sketchbooks is really a challenge I never won. I have different quality and sizes of them, for pencil drawing and for watercolour, some in France and some in Limburg, some for the daily sketches and some for travels… They are often gifts and I like each of them all for it specificities.
(Pencil, Ink and watercolour - 21 x 60 )
Washington Capitals' hockey mascot Slapshot shows his happiness at helping Ron Berger assemble a planter box, 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.
Every Chalon showroom features examples of these iconic kitchen pieces, which need to be seen in person to fully appreciate the quality craftsmanship and hand finishing that is a hallmark of all Chalon furniture.
Overhead projector used to project graphic designs on walls where volunteers paint murals 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.
Descendants of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, son, John Marshall and his grand-daughter Brianna attach window panels to a skylight section of a prefabricated garden toolshed, when the 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. They are one of many multi-generational families volunteering at this school today. 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.” 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.
Toolshed Build Leader John Marshall (center) and team stand on the base of the 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.
Sketches used for graphic designs on walls where volunteers will paint murals 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.
SPACE! ...Here is the studio from the other direction a few years after moving in. All of the layout tables for blueprints are down the middle so we can get all the way around. The far right corner is the drafting tables arranged in a "U" pattern for the layout work. The rest are assorted catch-all tables, shelving, art supplies, shipping boxes, etc... We keep the main part of the floor clear for the projects, crates, display cases, pedistals, etc.
This is the "clean" room for painting & detailing models, sculpting maquettes & figures, fine airbrushing, drawing the set ups and print layouts at the beginning of a job. The actual shop is the "dirty" room, where the carpentry, sawdust, construction, mold making, casting etc is done.
Volunteers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, Washington Capitals fans arrive at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Washington D.C. on Saturday, August 25, 2012 to help out on District of Columbia Public Schools’ (DCPS) Beautification Day. 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.
Planter and toolshed area where 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.
The appliances are hidden inside this lovely traditional Housekeeper's cupboard. Its strong lines are counterpoinbted by the soft curves of the worktable.
This one of a series of books made from the paper I place on my worktable. They form a diary of marks related to the period of time they are in place. Some have dates, this one does not. The paper here is a heavy cartridge paper, the front nad back covers have been coated in beeswax to give them some strength.
This particular book was produced in 2012 whilst preparing for my Painting with Natural Dyes workshop.
It has a tape binding, so all pages will open flat, the tape used is naturally dyed silk which has then been made into silk string which wraps around the book and is tied to secure it. It has been hand bound using a linen thread.
There are some awesome marks in this book, many pages appear to be maps of myserious places. There is quite a bit of colour in this book, featuring experiments with natural dye pigments to make paint such as , cochineal, logwood, indigo, madder, alkanet, lac and querabacho also play with tea and dandelion coffee.
This book can either be left as an artist's book or you can enter into a collaboration with me
by working into the pages
If you do that please share the results with me
Book is 7.5 x 10.5 cm (3 x 41/2") and has 62 pages.
Some tools & a few of 13,000 plus pull tabs in Vietnamese handcrafted magazine paper bowl .
I really want to learn this particular technique of the coiled magazine page paper bowls, cups, dishes, and baskets that are coming out of Vietnam. First of all, these are so precise. They are perfectly thinly coiled, and perfectly flat -- as if the folded strips were ironed. Each strip is no more than 1/4 inch wide or 5 mm.
I have been talking to the Fair Trade importers (These are made by Fair Trade Collectives who create and sell their crafts for a living wage in their country), and I have learned these paper strips start by soaking the page in glue and then letting the page dry flat. Then they fold the pages...dampening or wetting the folds slightly somehow. Then they dry the strips again. If I messed up this description, I am sorry. I have not tried this technique yet.
At last, they rewet and coil these around plastic factory made bowls....used as molds. Then dry and there is a finished product. If anyone has further info on this technique, please let me know!
I have made many coiled vessals, and none ever came out like this! :-)
My workspace -- books, computers, light box, camcorder, cutting table, blanket over the windows to keep the cold winter air out... This goes along with my interview by Julie of 8Balloons. Read more here: ruralpearl.com/blog/?p=2432
Welcome sign where 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.
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.
Ellen Anderson guides two young gardeners as thet mix potting and conditioning soil in a raised planter box, when U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People’s Garden Executive Master Gardeners, friends, and family, along with Washington Capitals fans volunteer in the 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.
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
Nine-Light Chandelier
•Date: ca. 1785
•Culture: French
•Medium: Gilt and patinated bronze
•Dimensions:
oHeight: 36⅝ in. (93 cm)
•Classification: Metalwork-Gilt Bronze
•Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1977
•Accession Number: 1977.83
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
Provenance
[Michel Meyer, Paris, until 1977; sold to MMA]
Timeline of Art History
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.