Decorative arts
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Hoard of objects loaned by Paris's Musée de Cluny to the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells a complex tale
Alvar González-Palacios’s book on the Italian decorator is a peak in his distinguished career
Chinese and Russian buyers with a taste for the ornate have added a new layer of bidding and are forcing prices ever higher
"Sold to the person in the Prada suit"
New York vies with London for nineteenth- and twentieth-century decorative arts sales, but Chicago is coming on quickly
A survey of the decorative arts market
Is it design, or art, or craft? Who cares. One thing is certain: the British are best at it
Another floor opens up in the Bröhan Museum with its privately formed collection
Louvre-organised show at the Grand Palais of neglected period of production
Exhibition celebrates patterns yet transcends decoration
Modern designs at the Met
The piece of furniture by Bernard II van Risenburgh, which left for the US almost four decades ago, was commissioned by Louis XV for his stepdaughter
Douriean Fletcher, who made the jewellery for Black Panther, speaks at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
The international market absorbs the Polo, Patiño and Johnson collections in one year. Tous les Louis do well but Louis XVI best of all
Book looks at one royal's Medieval gifts, giving and inventories
A reminiscence of the New York socialite, arts patron and philanthropist by Keith Christiansen, the chairman of the Met's European Paintings Department
The great building as seen through the generations of its occupants
The history—in images and works of decorative art—of giving birth and raising children before 1900
The extraordinary mitteleuropäische flourishing of all the arts from 1900 to 1914
River of Life depiction has been newly reattributed to J & R Lamb Studios
Former Art Deco swimming pool in Roubaix dives into Modern French sculpture
An exhibition of 100 masterpieces from the Gobelins manufactory reveals a complicated repatriation after the Second World War
Show at Leeds City Museum is one of this year's many events commemorating the tercentenary of the furniture maker’s birth
The 18th-century punch bowl was unearthed during an archaeological dig in Philadelphia
New England grad student found the gem in a bag of clams he bought for $25
A major overhaul of the house’s interiors will recreate different a historical period on each floor
Visitors can watch conservators at work in the renovated space
Secret legacies, family feuds and the aristocratic rakes who couldn’t resist a bet
In their first collaboration, the gallerists are showing 300 works priced from $30,000 to $10m
