Exhibition celebrates patterns yet transcends decoration

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

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

Lempertz, Berlin, Berlin Sale, 2 May

David Ekserdjian finds these new books timely and uplifting

Dora Thornton on the amazing cabinet of Pope Sixtus V