We will create a website using css and html on a wordpress platform to make the Tessé room accessible to all visitors to the Met. We will do this by using transparent language, showing video and annotating images in order to elucidate function and usage of materials in 18th century daily life. These materials are a Reisener mechanical desk, a Sevres elephant-head vase, a silver coffeepot, a snuffbox, textiles, a mirror, a gilted wood chair, and a carpet. It is essential to our project to link materials and their makers. We will do this by connecting specific plates from the Encyclopédie to selected objects in the room. We will choose 10 (ish) plates. We will bring the human back to the humanities; we strive to vivify the Tessé room.
Website Spec Requirements:
- Get wordpress domain
- Create our title and tagline
- Homepage has the floor plan for the Tésse Room
Bottom of homepage has color and materials bars (Avery) - Click on object to link to object’s page (ex. click on the Riesener desk to go to Rowanne’s desk page)
- Three pages for Megan’s snuffbox, coffee pot, and potpourri boat, with video (or 3d?) showing the objects in the round, and with accompanying plates to describe the production process.
- One page for Leila’s outfit with clickable parts (click on lace, cords, buttons, feathers, etc.) Each material can either have its own page, or can be in a virtual tour format. It will have Encyclopédie plates showing how each material was made,
Images we need from the Met:
(ideally) a 3d model of the Riesner desk (preferably open, but anything that shows its mechanicity), and as detailed as possible still photos of gilt bronze and wood inlay.
Still images of elephant head vases
Close up of the a gilt wood chair – with fabric and gilt both visible
Still images of the carpet (even just a section of the carpet)
Photos of the mirror
3-d model of the bust of Diderot