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Article: Furnishing Hillwood: Marjorie Merriweather Post's passion for French style. (Hillwood Museum & Gardens).
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Hillwood was Marjorie Merriweather Post's ultimate legacy as a collector. To understand her decorative preferences and her taste for the arts of eighteenth-century France, one has to examine the collecting trajectory of this grande dame.
Brought up in a late nineteenth-century environment where interiors were heavy, busy, and replete with late Victorian bric-a-brac, Post became aware of the arts of eighteenth-century France in the years between 1915 and 1925. The neoclassical style of the Louis XVI period had appealed to Americans since the time of Thomas Jefferson, and it was revived in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, appreciated for its ...