An Exhibition in Paris Celebrates the Ancient Art of Piqué With a Collection of Finely Crafted Tortoiseshell Objects | Vogue

"On Paris’s Left Bank, a splendid Beaux Arts townhouse on the banks of the Seine houses one of the wonders of the collecting world, filled with princely treasures of dazzling aspect and provenance, chosen to ignite the fancies of museum directors and deep pocketed plutocrats around the world. It’s a rare treat to be allowed inside, which is reason enough to hurry to the Piqué show—through December 8—a selling exhibition assembled over many years by the scholarly and engaging Kugel brothers Nicolas and Alexis, building on the nucleus of a treasury the fifth-generation Kugel family had assembled and largely amplified by one substantial collection with a Rothschild provenance, with one sensational table on loan from the Hermitage." - Hamish Bowles