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Marie-Laure Buku Pongo, William Christie

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D Giles Ltd
01 February 2026

Art & design styles: Baroque; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Antique furniture & furniture collecting

Series: Frick Diptych

This new volume in the Frick Diptych series features an essay by Frick curator Marie-Laure Buku Pongo paired with a contribution by world-renowned conductor and keyboardist William Christie.

These two cabinets, stamped BVRB, may well be the last pieces of furniture made by the celebrated Parisian cabinetmaker Bernard van Risenburgh II just before he retired in 1764 and sold his workshop to his son, Bernard van Risenburgh III, who finished them. The cabinets feature panels of black-and-gold Japanese lacquer of exceptionally high quality taken from a seventeenth-century Japanese cabinet, chest, or screen. Beginning in the 1730s, the older van Risenburgh worked almost exclusively with the influential marchands-merciers or merchants of luxury goods, who provided the cabinetmaker with the rare and costly Oriental lacquers and sometimes with the design for the furniture on which to mount them.

AUTHORS: Marie-Laure Buku Pongo is assistant curator of Decorative Arts, The Frick Collection, New York.

William Christie is a conductor and harpsichordist. A specialist in the baroque and classical repertoire he is the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants.

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New volume in the best selling Frick Diptych Series that began with Holbein's Sir Thomas More by Hilary Mantel. .

Volume 16 focuses on two exceptional pieces of furniture made by BVRB, considered to be one of the outstanding cabinetmaking families working in eighteenth-century Paris. Features a contribution by award-winning musician William Christie. .

Other examples of Van Risenburgh works can be found in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; J Paul Getty Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

40 colour illustrations

By: Marie-Laure Buku Pongo
Contributions by: William Christie
Imprint: D Giles Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 16
ISBN: 9781917273121
ISBN 10: 1917273126
Series: Frick Diptych
Pages: 72
Publication Date: 01 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Marie-Laure Buku Pongo is assistant curator of Decorative Arts, The Frick Collection, New York. William Christie is a conductor and harpsichordist. A specialist in the baroque and classical repertoire he is the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants.

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