Off the Shelf

Apollo’s selection of recently published books on art, architecture and the history of collecting

Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century

Elsa Smithgall (ed.)

Giles, £39.95

ISBN 9781911282761

Founded in Washington, D.C., by Duncan Phillips, the Phillips Collection celebrates its centenary this year. With illustrated essays and artist interviews, this volume takes stock of the museum’s acquisitions of modern and contemporary art since .

Jean-Henri Riesener: Cabinetmaker to Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette

Helen Jacobsen, Rufus Bird,

Mia Jackson (eds.)

Philip Wilson Publishers, £50

ISBN 9781781300909

The holdings of the Wallace Collection, Waddesdon and the Royal Collection have been mined and freshly photographed for this, the first major monograph on the German cabinetmaker whose name is synonymous with Louis XVI furniture.