Uncommon Interiors
After obliging home-furnishings
aficionados on the West Coast, Ann Getty introduced her furniture collection to New York in October. In addition to a growing number of originally designed pieces, the Ann Getty House Collection features reproductions of selected pieces from her personal collection. The bureau bookcase, a rich-toned
chinoiserie stunner, is based on a piece in the Blue Library of Ann and husband Gordon Getty's San Francisco home. The bookcase is “both beautiful and functional.
I admire the craftspeople who put in literally hundreds of hours
developing the layers of chinoiserie finish,” says Getty.
Other notable items in the House Collection include a Georgian breakfront library bookcase, circa 1740, an 18th-century Neoclassical painted and parcel-gilt dining side chair and a Regency brass-mounted parcel-gilt black lacquered and Japanned side table, circa 1810.