| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in design & material culture
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Studies in design and material culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index. |
| Summary |
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 idea of the unified interior as a total work of art, enabling the profession of interior designer to take shape. In observing the dependence of the trades on the artistic and public visual appeal of their work, the book establishes crucial links between the fields of art history, material and visual culture, and design history. |
| Contents |
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 |
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Epilogue: The presentness of historicism: the Musée centennal du mobilier et de la décoration and the legacy of proto-interior designersBibliography; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Interior decoration -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Interior decoration. |
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France. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Interior decorating in 19th century France |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lasc, Anca I. Interior decorating in nineteenth-century France. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018 1526113384 (OCoLC)1014106500 |
| ISBN |
9781526113399 (electronic book) |
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1526113392 (electronic book) |
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9781526113405 |
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1526113406 |
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1526113384 (hardcover) |
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9781526113382 (hardcover) |
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