Still Life Sells

Home furnishings catalogs have evolved over the past couple of decades into glossy, sumptuous celebrations of domestic life (minus the mess). They're a far cry from the fuzzy line drawings of a Sears catalog at the turn of the last century. But Judith Kampfner says that some of the eye popping splendor in current catalogs begins much longer ago than that: with the 17th century paintings of Dutch Still Life masters.

Music Playlist

  1. Get Up, I'm Going Hunting

    Artist: Marion Verbruggen
    Album: Van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-Hof (Selections)
    Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
  2. Cariba

    Artist: Wes Montgomery
    Album: Full House
    Label: Riverside