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Tablescapes: Designs for Dining | Conservation of the Surtout de Table (with Audio Description)
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On view for the first time in 30 years, Cooper Hewitt’s surtout de table was created in Paris around 1805 by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, a French sculptor renowned for creating gilt-bronze objects for the politically and socially powerful. It is believed that Napoleon gave this example as a wedding present to his stepson, Eugène de Beauharnais, whom he often designated to host diplomatic dinners in Paris and Italy. “Tablescapes: Designs for Dining" is on view at Cooper Hewitt through April, 2019.
