The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century
by Whitehead, John
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- Condition
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 1856690180
- ISBN 13
- 9781856690188
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About This Item
London: Laurence King, 1992. Hardbound. VG/VG. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering with color pictorial DJ, color illustrated end pages, 256pp, 263 illustrations, 247 in color. From the jacket--The eighteenth century was a period of great inventiveness and originality in French decorative arts and interior decoration, and its crowning achievement was the creation of the domestic interior. Using the craftsmen and skills originally brought into france from Italy and the Low Countries to serve the Sun King, French aristocrats and financiers created in their Paris Hotels and country chateaux interiors of an unprecedented elegance and sophistication. This book discusses in detail the creation and contents of many such interiors, including some that have never been photographed before. Using contemporary inventories, letters, and journals, it brings to life the tastes and preioccupations of their creators--the Royal family, the aristocracy, the fashionable tourists, and the nouveaux riches, the dealers and craftsmen who worked for them, the artists, designers, and architects, both in their public lives and more private moments. In addition it explores the wider context of the different styles of decoration, the effect upon them of changes in etiquette and social behaviour, and the effect they had in turn upon the function and arrangement of rooms within the French interior. Contents as follows: Introduction -- Clientele -- Designers, Guilds and Dealers -- Styles and influences -- The Distribution, Use and Content of Rooms -- Architectural Decoration -- Furniture -- Gilt-Bronze -- Porcelain -- Lacquer, Tôle and Wallpapers -- Textiles -- Silver -- Appendices -- Citation of Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128077
- Title
- The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century
- Author
- Whitehead, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1856690180
- ISBN 13
- 9781856690188
- Publisher
- Laurence King
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- European Decorative Arts ; 18th Century French Interiors ; ;
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- VG/VG
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