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J. Paul Getty Museum: Paris: Life and Luxury: French Mechanical Table

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Highly decorative and cleverly designed table, which mechanically transforms into a desk at the turn of a key, epitomizes the richness of eighteenth-century French style before the French Revolution. [2:39]

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furniture design, marquetry, european decorative arts, french decorative arts, getty museum, j. paul getty museum
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