Chinoiserie at Court:

The Influence of China in the Arts of 18th-Century Europe

Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent

Member of the British Royal Family, Author, Lecturer, and Interior Designer, London

China became not only an inspiration but an obsession in a number of European courts in the mid 1700s. Princess Michael, author of several books about European royal history, most recently The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King (Simon and Schuster, 2005), will show the effects of this influence in the arts and highlight the key personalities, such as Catherine the Great and Marie-Antoinette, who promoted the current taste for Chinoiserie.

IIn collaboration with the French Heritage Society and The Royal Oak Foundation.
Book-signing to follow.