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Interior decorating in nineteenth-century France : The visual culture of a new profession /
This book explores the beginnings of the interior design profession in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources, from collecting and advice manuals to pattern books and department store catalogues, it demonstrates how new forms of print media were used to 'sell' the...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Musee centennal du mobilier et de la decoration and the legacy of proto-interior designersBibliography; Index