FROM INVENTION TO PERFECTION

One hundred masterpieces of European art and arts and crafts of the eighteenth century form a panorama of innovation, design and exp ert realisation. In their sumptuous design, the porcelain, furniture, bronzes and silver objects are all miracles of the luxury craf tsmanship found in court art. Such sophisticated design was the driving force behind the quickly successive styles of classicism, na turalism and the exotic design of the Rococo period. Andre-Charles Boulle, Jakob Philipp Hackert, Johann Joachim Kaendler, Alexandre -Jean Op...[Llegir més]