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Bureau with
a writing stand, musical mechanism and bronze group
Heinrich Daniel Gambs
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Secretaire
Heinrich Daniel Gambs
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This is the former Study of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna
(architect Alexander Krasovsky, 1894-95). The display is devoted to
the work of the best-known furniture-maker in Russia in the early
decades of the 19th century - Heinrich Gambs (1765-1831). This pupil
of the celebrated David Roentgen arrived in St Petersburg in the 1790s
and founded a firm that flourished until the 1870s. His mahogany bureau
of 1815 mounted with ormolu and containing a hidden mechanism is a
masterpiece of the cabinetmaker's art. The Gambs firm also produced
the mahogany secretaire decorated with ormolu. |
