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Peacock Room Comes to America



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The Peacock Room Comes to America details the unique history of a  dining room so masterfully decorated, it crossed oceans to become an  art collector’s piece. The room is a study in opulence, offering a  360-degree showstopping view. This book features splendid illustrations  and close-up shots of the room’s most intricate details, from its gilded  walnut latticework to the Tudor-style ceiling painted with a lush  pattern of peacock feathers. The paneled room is painted in rich  blue-green colors with white-over glazing and metallic gold leaf and  distinctive incorporation of the peacock motif. While renowned for its  beauty, the room is also famous for the story of its making, marked by  betrayal and feuding, embodied by a mural of fighting peacocks painted  in secret by artist James McNeill Whistler after he’d been fired from  the project.

The room is considered one of the best surviving  aesthetic interiors of the Anglo-Japanese style and displays more than  250 stunning ceramics from across Asia ranging from prehistoric times to  the early twentieth century. The Peacock Room Comes to America introduces readers to these distinctive pottery pieces with historical and artistic context. 

  • Author: Lee Glazer
  • Softcover
  • Publisher: Smithsonian Books 2023
  • 64 pages, 10.5" x 10.5"
  • 60 color and 20 archival images
  • ISBN: 9781588347534 
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