Geoffrey Ripert’s research interests focus on French eighteenth-century Decorative Arts, particularly the taste for hardstones and marble objects, the reasons why these were mounted, as well as their display and function in the secular interior. He is interested in investigating how these were created, from the mining of raw material to the finished work of art, including the patrons, artisans and intermediaries involved in the process. He also explores the survival of Greco-Roman antiquity in the material culture of eighteenth-century Europe. Previously, he was Curatorial Assistant for Decorative Arts at the Frick Collection for almost four years, a fellow at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, worked as assistant to an art dealer specialized in European Decorative Arts in Paris, and interned at the Musée du Louvre. He holds an MA in Curatorial Studies and Art Collection Management from the Ecole du Louvre, an MA in the History of the Arts from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and a BA in the History of Art and Archaeology from Sorbonne University.