11.   The period rooms in New York are generally gorgeous, beautifully appointed and maintained, and relatively peaceful, considering their popularity.

12.   The period rooms survive in the new museum, along with an exhibition of furniture wood types, finishes and antique upholstery techniques.

13.   The place is an encyclopedia of taste cultures, with more period rooms than the Met.

14.   The trend that these sales illustrated, not yet universal among American museums, is toward a diminishing enthusiasm for creating and maintaining period rooms.

15.   They made no attempt to create accurate period rooms.

16.   When museums recreate period rooms, they acquire an aura that lies somewhere between fact and fiction.