Alexander Lange said it well in the New Yorker when she addressed how The Cooper Hewitt had taken time to make its ornate rooms “sing”. We as a class will make the Met’s new digital approach sing. We will keep the aesthetic and grandiose accents of the Met but propose new digital experiences regarding the Period Rooms and values of the Enlightenment during that time frame. My project will examine the popularity for consuming Japanese lacquer in Europe during the 18th century. Japanese lacquer was a part of a new commodity market in Paris. It was valued for its material, look and “exoticism”. I will provide an image of how the commode and secretary would have looked like originally in Marie Antoinette’s Grant Cabinet Interior at Versailles – a room with installed lacquer walls. I will be using Photoshop to place the commode and secretary together in a room where the backdrop is align to how Marie Antoinette’s lacquer room would have looked like during that time period. This way, guests can see how in actuality they would have looked like placed next to one another in a room that was intended for only disappear of this priceless lacquer collection.