I am so excited! This Thursday I am flying from Houston TX to NY to teach Interior Designers from around the U.S. a CEU entitled Antiquing in NY which I will teach from 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM on Friday June 25th. I will spend 7-8 glorious hours instructing my group on the Period English and French rooms at the Metropolitan Museum in NY. I adore Antiques, especially the Louis XV Rococo furniture by Vanrisamburgh II and the Louis XVI Neoclassical furniture by Reisner. The Louis XV Rococo Era was so amazing with its magnificent, asymmetrical serpentine curves, its red and black lacquered furniture, its handmade paper-thin veneered polychrome marquetry that can't be replicated today despite all the technology that we have, and its elegant gilt boiserie walls - that it was copied all across the rest of Europe for decades! I have taught this class many times before, yet I am always awed to be in the presence of such greatness when I am teaching these Period Rooms. Look at this photo of one of the rooms at the Metropolitan Museum that we study, with the lovely curvaceous Rococo red lacquered table by Vanrisamburgh II juxtaposed against the straight-lined Neoclassical Louis XVI chair - both sitting on the spectacular Savonerie rug from the collection by Charles Le Brun from 17th C Versailles - It is incredible... Don't you agree?