A SUITE FOR PIANO/ ALMA

Financier, art collector, and philanthropist Henry Gurdon Marquand famously commissioned eminent British painter Sir Lawrence Alma-T adema (1836-1912) to create the Greco-Pompeian music room for his home. This beautiful publication documents and examines the celebr ated design, which included an elaborately decorated Steinway grand piano, a large suite of matching furniture, and an embroidery sc heme for the upholstery and coordinated curtains. Alma-Tadema secured Frederic Leighton to create a major painting for the room's ce iling an...[Read more]