Author: Horace W. BrockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Text by Clifford S. Ackley, Horace W. Brock, Martin P. Levy.
Splendor and Elegance
Author: Horace W. BrockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Text by Clifford S. Ackley, Horace W. Brock, Martin P. Levy.
New Orleans
Author: Richard SextonPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811841316
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This is a beautiful introduction to the multicultural art and architecture of the "Crescent City," the cognomen given to the city nestled along a tight bend of the Mississippi River. In this introductory history, the reader is familiarized with many new terms reflecting the multiethnic complexity of the local population. The combination of African, French, and Anglo-American immigrants formed a unique Creole culture that has produced its own music, cuisine, art, and architecture, displayed superbly in a vast variety of photographs.
Consuming Splendor
Author: Linda Levy PeckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521842327
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.
Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers
Author: Thomas MertonPublisher: New City Press
ISBN: 1565486722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This volume of previously uncollected studies makes a notable contribution to Merton's extensive and influential legacy. This volume includes pieces on eleventh- and twelfth-century monastics by Thomas Merton, perhaps the most significant American Catholic spiritual writer of the twentieth century. The essays are difficult to locate elsewhere, the conference transcriptions are available only here.
Diana Phipps's Affordable Splendor
Author: Diana PhippsPublisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 9780394721743
Category : Interior decoration.
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Thirty-two pages of photographs illustrate the interior decorator's ideas, plans, and projects for using ordinary, used, and inexpensive items and materials to create luxurious, comfortable, and expensive-looking rooms
Palaces of Pleasure
Author: Lee JacksonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century’s growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up prudes, the Victorians reveled in these newly created ‘palaces of pleasure’. In this vivid, captivating book, Lee Jackson charts the rise of well-known institutions such as gin palaces, music halls, seaside resorts and football clubs, as well as the more peculiar attractions of the pleasure garden and international exposition, ranging from parachuting monkeys and human zoos to theme park thrill rides. He explores how vibrant mass entertainment came to dominate leisure time and how the attempts of religious groups and secular improvers to curb ‘immorality’ in the pub, variety theater and dance hall faltered in the face of commercial success. The Victorians’ unbounded love of leisure created a nationally significant and influential economic force: the modern entertainment industry.
Laokoon
Author: Gotthold Ephraim LessingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Elegance of the Cat
Author: Tamsin PickeralPublisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9780764166150
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A celebration of the cat, and a moving account of the feline's journey from the wild to a comfortable domestic existence. Discover the stories behind more than fifty breeds of cats, accompanied by stunning photographs of every featured breed. --
American Splendor
Author: Michael C. KathrensPublisher: Acanthus PressLlc
ISBN: 9780926494619
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Originally published in 2002, American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer is the first and only extensive study of this master creator of the American Great House. This revised edition features three new chapters and over 50 new colour photographs.
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