Author: Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 773
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 : 773
Book Description
The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts
Author: Detroit Institute of ArtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.
Art Deco and Modernist Carpets
Author: Susan DayPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811836134
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"In 1927, the critic Rene Chavance identified carpet production as the most successful of the decorative arts in achieving 'the more visionary aims of the times'. Susan Day's book, a work of original scholarship accompanied throughout by illustrations both of the carpets themselves and of contemporary interiors, demonstrates that these Art Deco carpets have lost none of their decorative power. A significant number of the carpets are shown precisely as they were meant to be seen, within the rooms for which they were made." "The fruits of the remarkable Art Deco efflorescence throughout Europe form the first part of the book. In the second, the focus turns to the reaction against the artistes-decorateurs by the champions of modernism. In France, the designs of Sonia Delaunay, Eileen Gray and Jean Lurcat evoked collage and Cubism; the Bauhaus and Scandinavia provided different influences. The fashion for abstract and modernist rugs was further stimulated by limited editions of rugs woven from works by such artists as Picasso, Klee and Miro, while in the USA, designers developed a style that was distinctly American." "This visual feast, of appeal not only to carpet collectors and textile specialists but to anyone with an interest in 20th-century design, ranges from the supremely imaginative achievements of Paul Poiret's unique weaving studio, the Ecole Martine, to the Scandinavian folk traditions of Marta Maas-Fjetterstrom, the innovations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Donald Deskey in the USA and Gunta Stolzl's handwoven carpets in Germany. The book's invaluable reference section includes detailed information on artists, manufacturers and retailers, their signatures and monograms, and a glossary and bibliography." --Book Jacket.
Good Furniture and Decoration
Author: Country Life Illustrated
Author: The Connoisseur
Author: The Burlington Magazine
Author: Robert Edward DellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
House Beautiful
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Reports from Commissioners
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description