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Saint Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishers, 2015. Hardcover. VG+. Color illustrated paper-covered boards. 431 pp., profusely illustrated in color. Text entirely in English. Translated by David Hicks. This publication is devoted to the State Hermitage collection from eighteenth-century Russian furniture. It is the largest collection in Russia both in the number of pieces it includes and in the variety of structural and decorative design concepts. The variety of structural and decorative design ranges from vestiges of medieval works that lingered on in the homes of gentry and wealthy peasants to the vanguard of eighteenth-century modes based on drawings by the greatest designer-architects of successive periods such as Francesco Rastrelli (1750s), Charles Cameron (1780s), and Giacomo Quarenghi (1790s). The earliest is from the reign of Peter I, when Russian furniture-making had only just begun to develop in line with fashionable European trends. The furniture of the mid-18th century (Empress… Read More