BVRB's Commodes (Frick Diptych Series)
$29.95
This new volume in the Frick Diptych series features an essay by Frick curator Marie-Laure Buku Pongo paired with a contribution by world-renowned conductor and keyboardist William Christie.
Two cabinets in the Frick Collection, stamped BVRB, may well be the last pieces of furniture made by the celebrated Parisian cabinetmaker Bernard van Risenburgh II just before he retired in 1764 and sold his workshop to his son, Bernard van Risenburgh III, who finished them. The cabinets feature panels of black-and-gold Japanese lacquer of exceptionally high quality taken from a seventeenth-century Japanese cabinet, chest, or screen. Beginning in the 1730s, the older van Risenburgh worked almost exclusively with the influential marchands-merciers or merchants of luxury goods, who provided the cabinetmaker with the rare and costly Oriental lacquers and sometimes with the design for the furniture on which to mount them.
Authors: William Christie and Marie-Laure Buku Pongo
Publisher: The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited
Hardcover, 7 ¼ x 9 ½ in, 72 pages, 40 color illustrations
Frick Diptych Series
Designed to foster critical engagement and to interest specialists and non-specialists alike, each book in the Frick Diptych series illuminates a single work in the museum’s rich collection with an essay by a current or recent Frick curator, paired with a contribution from a contemporary artist, writer, or cultural figure.
