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Multi-Sensorial Materials: Egyptomania and the Decorative Impulse

Multi-Sensorial Materials: Egyptomania and the Decorative Impulse

BY LEA C. STEPHENSON

Across the late-19th-CENTURY Anglophone world, artists and collectors fabricated Orientalist fantasies of Egypt as part of a phenomenon that became known as Egyptomania. This sensation included an embodied and material engagement with the modern North African Middle East and the ancient Islamic empire.

French Interiors for an American Gilded Age

French Interiors for an American Gilded Age

BY LAURA C. JENKINS

From the early 1880s onward, the movement of French 18th-century decorative arts from Europe to New York coincided with a growing fashion among the wealthy of that city for rooms in French historical styles.

18th-Century Marine Imagery in the Sèvres Archive

18th-Century Marine Imagery in the Sèvres Archive

BY ALYSE MULLER

A Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant provided the opportunity to conduct essential research at the Sèvres manufactory archive in Paris. My dissertation reconsiders the marine genre within a variety of mediums to explore the nexus of maritime commerce, political aspirations, iconography, and aesthetics.

Made for Use: The Pottery of C.A. Haun

Made for Use: The Pottery of C.A. Haun

BY RILEY KATE RICHARDS

Christopher Alexander Haun produced uniquely decorated utilitarian earthenware pottery until his death in 1861 and is currently a semi-canonical figure in the study of Tennessee decorative arts.

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