(HOENTSCHEL COLLECTION.) Pératé, André; and Birère, Gaston. Collections Georges Hoentschel. 4 volumes. 267 photogravure plates of furniture and decorative arts from the collection. Folio, contents loose as issued in lettered board portfolios, condition varies; custom 1/2 gilt-lettered morocco clamshell boxes. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1908
first edition. The French artist and architect Georges Hoentschel was a renowned interior decorator around 1900. In his workshop 55 craftsmen manufactured interiors, including panelling and soft furnishing, mainly for influential and rich clients such as the French nobility. Hoentschel was a collector of 18th century decorative arts and medieval art. The major part of his impressive collection was purchased by John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), who bequeathed it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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