The National Art Museum of Romania is inaugurating, on the National Culture Day, January 15, the European Decorative Art Gallery, a unique permanent exhibition in the Romanian cultural landscape, which offers the public access to an impressive collection of approximately 400 pieces of tapestry and furniture, decorative art made of ceramics, glass and metal, informs a press release sent on Tuesday.
Covering an area of over 400 square metres, the European Decorative Art Gallery, composed of six rooms, illustrates four centuries of history of taste and refinement, innovations, manufactures and European craftsmen from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Russia of the 16th-19th centuries and completes the museum’s permanent exhibition, together with the European Art Gallery and the National Gallery.
“The exhibition includes a wonderful wedding box made in Dresden in 1586, ceramic objects from the famous faience factories in Delft (Holland), Manises (Spain), Montelupo Fiorentino and Savona (Italy), Rouen, Moustiers and Sevres (France), Meissen (Germany), Provençal furniture and French tapestries, as well as special silver pieces alongside the famous Bohemian crystal glasses. The craftsmanship of Russian craftsmen can be admired in the delicate cloisonne silver pieces, niello silver glasses or in the Punch Bowl made by the famous Faberge workshop. Also, a precious collection of watches illustrates the excellence of jewelers and watchmakers from the most important professional workshops in Europe,” the press release states.
