Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France: The Visual Culture of a New Profession

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 -- Privat...

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Main Author: Lasc, Anca I. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2018
Series:Studies in Design and Material Culture Ser
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Online Access:DE-Y7
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DE-Y3
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (302 pages)
ISBN:9781526113399

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