Eighteenth-Century Furniture Design

The design of fine furniture involves the dual concerns of functional need and aesthetic choice. It is intimately related to architecture and interior design as well as the fine arts, all of which followed similar stylistic developments in the history of European art. This exhibition will present approximately forty-five prints of French, German, and especially English furniture design as well as more than a dozen related pieces of furniture that illustrate the major stylistic development of the eighteenth century-one of the most significant periods of European decorative arts.