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Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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This book is one of the most helpful architecture and furniture books I have found. The met has put together a wide variety of periods and locations to let us look into the rooms of times past. The pictures are stunning and the descriptions are very informative.

In my opinion, this book is well worth having and a must for serious students of Interior Design and the Decorative Arts. Written in a scholarly fashion with beautiful photos, it is a marvelous resource affording the reader the opportunity to view period rooms in context. Arrived promptly in good condition, as described.

I bought this book to supplement my texts for a history of furniture course. I took the course a couple of years ago, and I just pulled the book out again this week to refer to it for some styles I needed to study for a furniture design and fabrication course. It's a great reference for many historical styles. It doesn't have every style that I would wish to see, but what it has is useful- showing several shots of the period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.