Curator's Choice: Wisteria Dining Room

Name: Curator's Choice: Wisteria Dining Room
Uploaded: 2013-01-10T02:55:06Z
Duration: P161S
Description: The Wisteria Dining Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a French Art Nouveau room created between 1910 and 1914, designed by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, a French artist and decorator. It was a style characterized by the interest in nature and by asymmetry. Notice how no two walls in this room match up.

Clip: Season 2013 Episode 30 | 2m 41s

The Wisteria Dining Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a French Art Nouveau room created between 1910 and 1914, designed by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, a French artist and decorator. It was a style characterized by the interest in nature and by asymmetry. Notice how no two walls in this room match up.

Aired: 01/10/13

Rating: NR

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Curator's Choice: Wisteria Dining Room

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