Candace Wheeler (American, 1827{u2013}1923) changed the course of textile and interior design in nineteenth-century America and was a driving force behind the professionalization of women in the design field. Inspired by the embroideries produced by England's Royal School of Art…
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Candace Wheeler (American, 1827-1923) changed the course of textile and interior design in nineteenth-century America and was a driving force behind the professionalization of women in the design field. Inspired by the embroideries produced by England's Royal School of Art needl…
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Looks at interior designers and furniture makers including: Robert Adam, Inigo Jones, van der Rohe, Thomas Sheraton. Also looks at specific styles, including : the Amsterdam school (Dutch expressionist architecture), the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Deco and Art Nouveau, Celtic…
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Looks at interior designers and furniture makers including: Robert Adam, Inigo Jones, van der Rohe, Thomas Sheraton. Also looks at specific styles, including : the Amsterdam school (Dutch expressionist architecture), the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Deco and Art Nouveau, Celtic…
"This book is about the waxing and waning of the Victorian parlor, a room whose elaborate decor and accompanying social performances seem, from the perspective of the late twentieth century, emblematic of the artifice, even phoniness, of Victorian culture. It is the story of how…
"This book is about the waxing and waning of the Victorian parlor, a room whose elaborate decor and accompanying social performances seem, from the perspective of the late twentieth century, emblematic of the artifice, even phoniness, of Victorian culture. It is the story of how…
Today's domestic-advice writers--women such as Martha Stewart, Cheryl Mendelson, and B. Smith--are part of a long tradition, notes Sarah Leavitt. Their success rests on a legacy of literature that has focused on the home as an expression of ideals. Here, Leavitt crafts a fascina…
This study demonstrates that today's domestic advice writers -women such as Martha Stewart, Cheryl Mendelson and B. Smith - are part of a long tradition. Sarah A. Leavitt crafts a cultural history and genealogy of domestic advice, based on her readings of manuals spanning 150 ye…
This book surveys modernism as interpreted in the private residences of the San Francisco Bay Area. An ecelectic array of over 30 homes are presented , showcasing modernist ideas in the context of everyday life.
"This book is the first comprehensive survey of workplace architecture, and interior schemes for the new century, capturing emerging themes and ideas in office design around the world. Written and researched by the authors of The Creative Office, this new book advances the conce…
Superb examples of interior design through the ages are on view in the period rooms at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From an ancient Roman bedroom excavated near Pompeii to a Louis XVI grand salon from eighteenth-century Paris to the Frank Lloyd Wright Room in the Am…
Superb examples of interior design through the ages are on view in the period rooms at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From an ancient Roman bedroom excavated near Pompeii to a Louis XVI grand salon from eighteenth-century Paris to the Frank Lloyd Wright Room in the Am…