"L'Art de Vivre" Exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts & Design
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Creator: Musee National des Techniques, Paris
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1989
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: June 1989
This elegant glass table service, on view at "L'Art de Vivre (The Art of Living): Decorative Art and Design, France, 1789-1989" exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in 1989, was designed by Francois-Eugene Rousseau in the early 1880s. Rousseau was the owner of a glass and ceramics shop in Paris and designed tablewares as well as ornamental works. The molten quality of his glasswares is particularly noteworthy.
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Featured in the "Torch," June 1989
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: June 1989
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1989
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2003-19510
Color: Black and white; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print