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Moscow, Russia: Izdatel'skii Dom Rudentsovykh, 2005. Hardcover. Like New. creaseing/wear to spine top. slipcase scuffed, scratched & smudged.. reflective silver cloth w/ silver printing. all edges silver. 443 pgs w/ color illustrations. grey slipcase. With its silver, reflective cloth and all silver edges, the publisher's have created a gorgeous book. The interior is lavishly illustrated with examples of 19th and 20th Century Russian furniture and interiors.

Moscow: 2005. 444 pages, fully illustrated in colour. Text in russian, detailed list of illustrations in english. Published by Izdatelskiy Dom Rudentsoviuh. Limited edion of 2000. Hardback 30 x 21.5cms. ISBN: 590288702X. The author studies the interior in a rich period of Russian art and design known as the Silver Age when such new artistic styles as Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and forms of early avant-garde arose. She introduces her monograph by looking at the interior and its furniture from several points of view: the structure that determines the space of a given interior; the floors, walls, and ceilings, molding and reliefs, built-in forms of lighting and heating in which the furniture finds its place. She then examines furniture of all styles current at the time and the ways in which it suited the interior as an additional architectural element, which was especially true for Art Nouveau. In the age of industrial design fine furniture became affordable by the middle class, making well-built,… Read More