22 April 2021, The Tablet

House of sorrows


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In the Studio
BBC World Service

The Camondo family were Sephardic Jews from Constantinople, as it then was, who settled in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century and built a mansion for themselves in the 8th arrondissement. In the Studio (20 April) found presenter Edwina Pitman on site at what is now the Musée Nissim de Camondo with the ceramicist and painter Edmund de Waal, discussing his commission to supply a “multifaceted installation” fit to accompany the museum’s collection of eighteenth-century porcelain, furniture and fine art.

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