Offers fresh insight into these exquisite masterworks by Pierre Gouthiere (1732 1813), the celebrated gilder to the French kings.
This third volume in the Frick’s Diptych series offers fresh insight into a pair of candelabra that represent the pinnacle of luxury and taste in the years prior to the French Revolution. Vignon tells the fascinating story of these objects that are made of two small white vases with extraordinary gilt-bronze mounts by Pierre Gouthiere, the celebrated eighteenth-century French chaser and gilder. Vignon’s essay is paired with a text by De Waal in which he examines what it is to make, own, and desire such complex objects AUTHORS: Edmund de Waal is a British artist, and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) and The White Road (2015). He is most well known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels and has received several awards and honours for his work. Charlotte Vignon is curator of Decorative Arts at The Frick Collection, as well as a visiting associate professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. SELLING POINTS: . Third volume in our major new series Frick Diptych. . Follows publication in spring 2018 of Holbein’s Sir Thomas More by best-selling author Hilary Mantel and fall 2018 of Vermeer’s Mistress and Maid by award-winning director and writer James Ivory. . Contributing author Edmund de Waal is a successful artist and best-selling author. 30 colour images