Comments on: Haven’t I Seen You Somewhere Before? Recurring Designs in the Eighteenth Century http://lacma.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/havent-i-seen-you-somewhere-before-recurring-designs-in-the-eighteenth-century/ Fri, 17 May 2013 06:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Deborah http://lacma.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/havent-i-seen-you-somewhere-before-recurring-designs-in-the-eighteenth-century/#comment-17949 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:14:49 +0000 http://lacma.wordpress.com/?p=12632#comment-17949 That’s the gallery I was referring to in my post from a few days ago about why LACMA regrettably comes up short compared with other museums when it comes to the display of decorative arts and related material. The way such items at the museum aren’t placed in impressive period rooms or something comparable, but in settings no more inspiring than a bland platform with a chair and mannequin on it, in front of a small, makeshift-looking shelf with two vases on top.

I don’t expect the grandeur of the period rooms housed in a certain well-known museum on the East Coast (which shall go unnamed), but I do expect something a bit better than what might just as well be the home furnishings department of a local Macy’s or Target.

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