Walter & Lucie Rosen:  Their Life Was An Opera

House Museum Tours

17th-Century Burgundian Library

PERMANENT COLLECTION & TOURS

Twenty magnificent rooms at the House Museum are open to the public, filled with the extraordinary collection Mr. and Mrs. Rosen amassed through the years: Renaissance, 18th century, and Eastern art objects and furnishings - tapestries, sculpture, paintings, textiles, furniture, exquisite wall coverings, stained glass, Urbino Maiolica and a major jade collection. Entire rooms were imported from European palaces and country manors.

The 17th century Burgundian Library, exceptional for its vaulted, periwinkle-blue ceiling decorated with 13 biblical scenes. Walls and doors are decorated with 65 additional paintings. 

Of special note is the lovely Reception Room, with exquisite hand
painted 18th century wallpaper from China, and a suite of 18th
century furniture, from a Venetian dressmaker's shop. 
 

The Dining Room

The restored Cabinet Room consisting of lacquered panels, created for the Palazzo Riccasoli in Turin in the middle of the 18th century.  Very few of these once numerous lacquered rooms have survived, though they were very fashionable in England, France, Portugal and Germany as well as in Italy.

The Dining Room, lined in stunning 18th century Chinese wallpaper,
made for the European market, contains a set of fourteen exquisite red-lacquered chairs, built by the English cabinetmaker Giles Grendey for the Duke of Infantado's castle of Lazcano near San Sebastian, Spain. Also in the Dining Room is an outstanding eight-fold Chinese screen with 40 panels of carved spinach-green jade set in an original carved
teak frame. The screen, considered unique, depicts the Hills of
Immortality, the paradise of Taoist  religion.    
 
Caramoor's House Museum is really the most wonderful place ...