Interior Design, March 1st, 2000
When the Pyramids Were Built: Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom by Dorothea Arnold New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Rizzoli, distributed by St. Martin's Press 144 pages, 130 color illustrations, $35. When the tomb of King Tutankhamun and its treasures were unearthed in 1922, they began a passionate interest in all things Egyptian, a mania that even Elvis and the Beatles could hardly surpass. It is with us still, and the exhibition of Old Kingdom treasures (a thousand years older than King Tut) recently seen at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and traveling to the Royal Ontario Mus...
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