Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France : The Visual Culture of a New Profession.
Anca I. Lasc
Bok Engelsk 2018 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (302 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Front matter -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The collector as taste advisor and interior decorator: popular advice manuals and the orchestration of the private interior -- The inventor of interiors: old professions in search of a name -- Private home, artistic stage: the circulation and display of interior dreamscapes -- The image of furniture: department stores and the trade in interior decoration designs -- Beautiful disorder, exception to the rule: the development of a new design aesthetic -- Epilogue: The presentness of historicism: the Musée centennal du mobilier et de la décoration and the legacy of proto-interior designers -- Bibliography -- Index.. - This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproduction enabled the still-unnamed profession of the interior designer to take shape.
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| ISBN | 9781526113399
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