Robert Lehmann and his father, Philip Lehman purchased textiles with the same well-trained eyes they used to acquire paintings, drawings, and decorative arts in general. This volume catalogues the more than 250 textiles and objects made of fabric that were part of Robert Lehman's bequest to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1975.
Many of these textiles were used as hangings, covers, or upholstery to embellish the Lehmans' elegant town house in Manhattan. They represent sixty-five years of assembling, owning, and living with hiustoric fabrics on a day-to-day basis, and for scholars and laymen alike they document an American stryle of living and interior decoration that has largely disappeared.
