Regardless of making it to the Cooper Hewitt exhibition from the last post, my son and I attended something similar, Pompeii and the Roman Villa at The National Gallery of Art, my favorite museum. It was a wonderful exhibit, both in content and exhibition design. The staging was meant to replicate the interior Tablinum of a Pompeiian Villa, complete with deep red & black walls, partially-painted red columns and an abundance of decorative finishes: marbling, colorwashing, plaster, and ornamental filigree. Upstairs included an interior atrium where the huge fresco of the famous Garden Scene from The House of the Golden Bracelet was on view. The entire three-wall frescoes of the…