Rudolf von Alt, “The Japanese Salon, Villa Hügel, Heitzing, Vienna” (1855) (all photos by Matt Flynn, courtesy Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) “The paintings were usually made after a room ...
What was life in America like a century or more ago? We can read about it, of course, in books and articles written at the time as well as in the works of historians of the period. But fortunately, we ...