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Nature Inside Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior
ISBN: HB: 9780300244021, Yale University Press, February 2021
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 120 illus.
From ferns in 19th-century British parlors to contemporary "living walls" in commercial spaces, plants and flowers have long been incorporated into the design of public and private spaces. Spanning two centuries, "Nature Inside" explores the history...
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American Furniture, 1650-1840 Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780876332962, Yale University Press, November 2020
336 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 300 illus.
"American Furniture, 1650-1840: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art" is the first publication dedicated to one of the finest collections of its type in the country. Best known for furniture by artisans from Philadelphia and southeastern Pe...
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs
ISBN: HB: 9780906506233, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 33.7x23.5 cm, 900 illus.
Roger Billcliffe's groundbreaking catalogue raisonne of the furniture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh first appeared over four decades ago. This fourth edition has been completely revised and updated to take account of the host of discoveries and develo...
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Suite for Piano Alma-Tadema and a Gilded Age Music Room
ISBN: HB: 9780300226676, Yale University Press, June 2017
160 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.
During the 19th century, New York City's grand mansions on Fifth and Madison Avenues boasted sumptuous interiors, often with each room decorated in a different historic style. Financier, art collector, and philanthropist Henry Gurdon Marquand famousl...
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£30,00
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Tastemaker Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home
ISBN: HB: 9780300221763, Yale University Press, June 2017
256 pp., 27.9x20.7 cm, 96 colour illus., 90 black&white illus.
From 1941 to 1964, "House Beautiful" magazine's crusading editor-in-chief Elizabeth Gordon introduced and promoted her vision of "good design" and "better living" to an extensive middle-class American readership. Her innovative magazine-sponsored ini...
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Making Magnificence Architects, Stuccatori, and the Eighteenth-Century Interior
ISBN: HB: 9780300225778, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 175 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture...
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Chinese Silks
ISBN: HB: 9780300111033, Yale University Press, August 2012
624 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 600 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
Over the past fifty years, archaeological explorations in China have unearthed a wealth of textile materials, some dating as far back as five thousand years. In this magnificently researched and illustrated book, preeminent Chinese and Western schola...
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Designing Antiquity Owen Jones, Ancient Egypt and the Crystal Palace
ISBN: HB: 9780300187076, Yale University Press, August 2012
320 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
In the 19th century, designers became involved in the public presentation of the past, focusing specifically on the decoration of historical monuments. By exploring ornamental designs and the way they represented the cultural concerns of distant civi...
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Duncan Phyfe Master Cabinetmaker in New York
ISBN: HB: 9780300155112, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2011
400 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage", to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed eli...
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Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry
ISBN: HB: 9780300166354, Yale University Press, November 2010
400 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 45 black&white illus., 110 colour illus.
Gloria Ross (1923-1998) described her work as the translation of paint into wool. She was deeply committed to reinventing the centuries-old art of tapestry, particularly championing the handmade in contemporary art. This remarkable book, written by t...
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