Battle of the Titans: Honoré Lannuier, Duncan Phyfe, and the New York School of Cabinetmaking, 1800-1820

A member of the curatorial staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1989, Peter Kenny writes and lectures extensively on American colonial and federal period furniture and craftsmen. He co-curated Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York, on view December 2011 –May 2012 at the Metropolitan before travelling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. An earlier exhibition, Honoré Lannuier: Parisian Cabinetmaker in Federal New York (1998), featured the work of Phyfe’s most tenacious competitor, the Parisian-trained ébéniste Charles-Honoré Lannuier.