The Italian Reformation and Gifting

The Karman Déjà-Vu Nu chandelier fairly dances above this sleek table set with sexy chairs in a pert hue of chartreuse at La Ménagère.

Peering back into the mists of time to ascertain how relationships between men and women played out has its challenges, particularly when the era limited contact between the opposite sex of a certain rank such as duringthe Italian Reformation. Last week, I took readers on a literary design adventure that found the Renaissance master Michelangelo and the sixte...