Author: Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The Wrightsman Collection. Vols. 1 and 2, Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets
Author: Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes
Author: J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368747
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"Each object is described and analyzed in terms of its provenance and published history, as well as its construction, materials, and conservation. With its painstaking attention to detail, this volume is the definitive catalogue of the Getty Museum's collection of French Baroque furniture and will be of interest to scholars, conservators, and all students of French decorative arts."--BOOK JACKET.
The Studio
Author: A Shorter French Course
Author: William Henry FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Furniture
Author: Joseph AronsonPublisher: Potter Style
ISBN: 0517037351
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A completely revised edition, covering every period and development to the present, the designers and makers, the woods and other materials, the architecture and decoration. 2,000 photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
Decorative Art
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Les Livres de L'année
Author: Masterpieces of Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings
Author: Verna Cook SalomonskyPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486170225
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Well-known, richly illustrated reference work, consulted by generations of collectors, curators, dealers, historians, and craftsmen. Each of 101 furniture masterpieces is characterized by a photograph, descriptive text, and several measured drawings.
The Tastemakers
Author: Diana DavisPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066412
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.