Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The Art Amateur
Author: “The” Athenaeum
Author: The Industry, Science, & Art of the Age
Author: John TimbsPublisher: London : Lockwood & Company
ISBN:
Category : International Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Arts & Decoration
Author: The Illustrated London News
Author: 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.