English Aesthetic Furniture
(1860-1880)
Florian Papp Inc.
962 Madison Ave. New York, New York
(212) 288-6770ACKNOWLEDGEMED
‘We af Florian Papp wish to express our goatitude to:
c] Wisehall of Michael Wischall Antiques, Knutsford, England
for hia atsistance in researching this catalog} Hlomee & Duzbam
Advertising for design, editing and printings Dick Goodbody for his
telent in photogrephy.
PREFACE.
‘Meséion the English country house, asd the images tumble
forth, pell mel. Long, langorous alternoons of croquet, on vast green
lawns, participants all in white. Collections of art and scalpture and
architectural fagments—all trundled home by some long-forgotten
scion on his Grand Tauraf the Continent, And, af cours, frsitare
and furnishings from the likes of Thomas Chippenale te James Laxabs
Tndeed, the great public museums we vist today are, in many
tray, extocaooa af the seal for elleting wich filled the Engh
country house with « thousand delights. Civilization but not the
Inidled, reined-back civilization of the metropolisinstead the product
of the bountifally curious and intelligent mind, the hallmark of the
well educated connoisseurcellector
zn collector feeling a spiritual kinship with the Engl
countey house and its traditions might find a visit to Florian Papp
swell repaid. This exhibition investigates a 20 yeas period in English
Aecorative arts which we hope you will find enlightening and enjoyable.
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Copyright 1986 Florian Papp lac.