I found this antique writing desk while vintage shopping in LA, and it immediately made me think of this class. The innovative interior of this writing desk reminds me of what we have discussed in class regarding the importance of having a personal desk to a woman of 18th c. France. […]
During our group meeting this week, we discussed several possibilities for wireframes, and our favorite one so far is attached. We plan to use a black and white color scheme (inspired by Encyclopédie plates) with accents of the “Tessé room green.” Because we will have a color and materials bar […]
Right now, Samina and I are each in the midst of individually creating our constructed Tessé period rooms, which include the presence of masters and servants respectively. While the male servant was simply photoshopped out of the painting from which he came, entitled, “The Cellarboy” by the renowned artist Jean-Simeon […]
I have always enjoyed visiting museums, but before enrolling in this class I never paid a lot of attention to furniture. Over spring break I had the opportunity to visit my sister who studies in London, and I made sure to pay special attention to furniture as I visited the […]
Spec Requirements for “A Lacquer World” Web Developers / Designers: Chloe Foussianes, Sarah Ryder Position and Goals: Responsible for designing and coding the website, help form the layout according to the needs of the group. The layout will strive to feature user-friendly design and present the data clearly. Managing/ Copy […]
A group email has just been sent, but I am posting to the blog to make this exciting news extra official. Three new WordPress sites have been created for the class. Each group has its own site. You can access each group’s site right here from the class blog. Just go to […]
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 […]
My role as copy editor will be to make sure our website’s language is consistent and captions are well-written. I will help organize the research and share files using Zotero and Google Docs. Finally, I will perform quality control for the any images used, including Encyclopédie plates.
One of the goals of our website, which we plan to create via the digital platform, WordPress, is to create easy navigation of a 3-D model of the Tesse Room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Sculptures and Decorative Arts Collection for the viewer. We would like for our […]
