The art of furnishing on rational and æsthetic principles, by H.J.C.
Title | The art of furnishing on rational and æsthetic principles, by H.J.C. PDF eBook |
Author | H. J. C. |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1876 |
Genre | Interior decoration |
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Household Gods
Title | Household Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Cohen |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300112139 |
At what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Richly illustrated, 'Household Gods' chronicles 100 years of British interiors, focusing on class, choice, shopping and possessions.
Bachelors of a different sort
Title | Bachelors of a different sort PDF eBook |
Author | John Potvin |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2021-01-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526159317 |
The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. It pays close attention to the interiors of Lord Ronald Gower, Alfred Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton. Richly illustrated and written in a lively and accessible manner, Bachelors of a different sort is at once theoretically ambitious and rich in its use of archival and various historical sources.
Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University. 2d Ed., Enl
Title | Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University. 2d Ed., Enl PDF eBook |
Author | Avery Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Arts and Crafts Objects
Title | Arts and Crafts Objects PDF eBook |
Author | Imogen Hart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2010-08-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
In this groundbreaking reassessment of the conventional understanding of a cohesive "Arts and Crafts" movement in Britain, Imogen Hart argues that a sophisticated mode of looking at decorative art developed in England during the second half of the nineteenth century. Bringing to light a significant number of little-known visual and textual sources, Arts and Crafts Objects insists that the history of British design between the 1830s and the 1910s is more complex and interwoven than concepts of clearly differentiated movements allow for. Reinvesting the objects with the original importance ascribed to them by their makers and users, this book places furniture, metalwork, tiles, vases, chintzes, carpets, and wallpaper at the center of a rigorous reassessment of the concept of "Arts and Crafts." The book offers radical new interpretations of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and the homes of William Morris, alongside illuminating analyses of less familiar, but equally rich, contexts.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Title | General Catalogue of Printed Books PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books |
Publisher | |
Pages | 670 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | English imprints |
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Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Title | Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 970 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Art |
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