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Article: Living with antiques: French furnishings in a New York City apartment.(Louis XIV, XV and XVI)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Many people would be daunted by the idea of living on a daily basis with outstanding examples of French eighteenth-century fine and decorative arts, but not the collectors whose New York City apartment is the subject of this article. Over the course of two decades they have been cultivating the fine art of living comfortably in the twenty-first century with objects from the reigns of Louis XIV, XV, and XVI. Housed in a luxurious and spacious twelve-room apartment of Fifth Avenue, part of the legendary fifty-four-room triplex designed for Mrs. Edward Francis Hutton (nee Marjorie Merriweather Post; 1887-1973), the collection is as inviting to the visitor as it is to its ...
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