Thursday, October 11, 2012

TEN DC PLACES SAGA 5:

HILLWOOD ESTATE:
Founded by American collector and heiress to the Post cereal empire Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is one of the premier art collector's museums in the United States. 
The museum features the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia and a world-renowned collection of Eighteenth-Century French decorative art and furnishings. 


The collection includes FabergĂ© eggs, 
Catherine the Great Egg.
Catherine the Great
Russian porcelain, Russian Orthodox icons, Beauvais tapestries, and Sèvres porcelain. 
Encircled by woodlands, the twenty-five acre estate provides visitors a tranquil oasis of luscious formal gardens.


Next, another House as Museum.

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