European Textiles in the Robert Lehman Collection.
By Christa C. Mayer Thurman.
Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art & the Princeton University Press in 2001.
In 149 color plates and 222 duotones, this volume catalogs more than 250 textiles and objects made of fabric, many of which were used as hangings, covers, or upholstery to decorate the Lehman town house in Manhattan, and including tapestries, embroideries, ecclesiastical textiles, and silks & velvets. Some of the most distinguished and historically significant objects in the collection are here, including the Last Supper after Bernaert van Orley, arguably the finest Renaissance tapestry in an American collection, and two series of embroidered roundels from 15th-century Flanders illustrating episodes from the lives of Saint Martin and Saint Catherine. The collection and the book document a style of American interior design that has largely disappeared, as the textiles were purchased to be lived with on a daily basis.
Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 300 pages, 149 color and 222 black & white illustrations, dust jacket. Clean and nice.
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