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Now for the first time, thirty-five spectacular installations from the period rooms at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York can be seen in book form, offering a superbly photographed grand tour through the history of interiors. An introduction explains the concept of period rooms at the museum and how they have been developed, installed, and furnished over the past 100 years. Each room is then depicted both in color photographs and in lively narrative descriptions that include fascinating information about the original room from which the museum's example is derived, the individuals who commissioned them and carried out the decoration, and the era that the room represents.

"[W]e feast enviously on this book, knowing that we will never have anything remotely as splendid at our place as Federico de Montefeltro's study...or even the ascetic perfection of the Shaker retiring room (ca. 1830-40) from New Lebanon..."

Raymond Sokolov, Wall Street Journal, 12/05/1996

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