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Museum accessions - Soap Hollow chest of drawers; tambour desk-and-bookcase; Herter Brothers cabinet acquired by museums
Pennsylvania German artisans in Soap Hollow--a small valley in Somerset County in southwestern Pennsylvania so named from the soft soap made there--produced ......(Continue Reading) A Herter Brothers library rediscovered
The history of 634 Fifth Avenue, between Fiftieth and Fifty-first Streets, is a microcosm of the changing taste in architecture and interior design in New York City in the late nineteenth and early...(Continue Reading)Gustave and Christian Herter: the European connection - furniture designers
European trends are strongly evident in the works of Gustave and Christian Herter, furniture makers and decorators in New York City in the late 19th century....(Continue Reading)Aesthetic walls and ceilings - Design Notes - Christian Herter
One of the hallmarks of interior design during the time of the aesthetic movement was the concept of a room as a total work of art. This meant that everything from the color of the walls to the sha...(Continue Reading)The furniture mounts of P.E. Guerin
Behind a simple facade on Jane Street in New York City is the luxury hardware business of P. E. Guerin, founded in New York in 1864 by Pierre Emmanuel ......(Continue Reading)
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