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Galerie J. Kugel displays its astounding (in quality, provenance, and extent) furniture, silver, paintings, objets de verm, carpets, ivory, jewelry, and scientific instruments from the Middle Ages and Renaissance through the early nineteenth century in the Palladian style Hotel Collot, built across the Seine from the Tuileries in 1840 for Jean-Pierre Collot, the director of the French Mint. Nicolas Kugel, who runs the business with his brother Alexis, describes their diverse yet impeccable inventory as speaking to the longstanding European tradition of connoisseurship across specialized fields. The gallery's baroque cabinets-on-stand, which are surrounded by the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Regal.(FARTHER afield)(Galerie J. Kugel)(Directory)