CONTENTS

Up front

Contributors - 12 From the director - 15

Object focus - 17 As Cartier continues, Victorian jewels inspire new creations

Backstage pass - 20 Dusting off a set of images by a "lost" 20th-century master

Interview - 24 Meet the artists picked for the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography

Group shot - 27 Art deco still has it, a century after its birth

Features

Spotlight - 29 A curator, a rare book and the amateur artist "Dr Death"

Queen of arts - 32

The new exhibition Marie Antoinette Style adds depth to a story we thought we knew

French dressing - 34 Manolo Blahnik and costume designer Milena Canonero tell Sarah Bailey how they created the look of a cult film by Sofia Coppola

Material girl - 40 Fit for a queen (and a pair of curtains), the cloth known as toile de Jouy has been chic for centuries

Room to breathe - 44 Elfreda Pownall explores a jewel-box interior by the decorators du jour of 18th-century Versailles

29 of Man have Card TREUTE Dog begg napping Good Days that Lean Above: Handpainted illustrations by a Kent apothecary in a 400-year- old copy of Aesop's Fables Right: The ceiling of the Sérilly Cabinet, a garden room created by Marie Antoinette's favoured interiors team