PERCHANCE TO DREAM: Royal and Noble Bedchambers by David LEVENTI

An exhibition of photographs titled 'Perchance to Dream: Royal and Noble Bedchambers' at the gallery Rick Wester Fine Art in Chelsea, New York. It shows work by architectural and editorial photographer David Leventi, who has spent ten years photographing the rarely seen private sleeping quarters of kings, queens and titled rulers in the United Kingdom and Europe. The pictures include Queen Marie-Antoinette's once secret bedchambers and the King's brocade-curtained chamber at Versailles, alongside rooms at palaces and halls in Germany, England, Russia, France and Italy. The gallery frames the work as a look at the wealth and history behind the aesthetics of royalty, and a foil to today's efforts to establish a monolithic regime.