The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat…
The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat…
For those who have ever lost themselves in the stylish worlds of novels like Sense and Sensibility, The Age of Innocence, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray and countless others, this design book embraces the fantasy of time and place, showing you how to bring some of…
The key to a stylish life is in the details, and the details are found in books! Giramonti presents a book-lover's guide to decorating, referencing sixty beloved works of literature. She shows how even the smallest elements, such as the blue china flowerpots perched on bright ye…
Novel Interiors is the ultimate book-lover's guide to decorating. Taking a page from the enchanted worlds of more than sixty beloved works of literature, Lisa Borgnes Giramonti presents an aesthetic guide to the canon and shows you how even the smallest elements, such as the blu…
The key to a stylish life is in the details, and the details are found in books! Giramonti presents a book-lover's guide to decorating, referencing sixty beloved works of literature. She shows how even the smallest elements, such as the blue china flowerpots perched on bright ye…
by Murck, Alfreda, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Parker, James, Koeppe, Wolfram, Fong, Wen, Mertens, Joan R., Peck, Amelia, Rieder, William, Daskalakis Mathews, Anne-Christine, Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle O., Raggio, Olga, Shepard, Mary B.
"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 A…
"From a twelfth-century cloister from the Pyrenees to eighteenth-century French and English parlors and boudoirs to Colonial and early nineteenth-century American dinings rooms and libraries, the Metropolitan's collection of period rooms offers a wealth of fine furniture and dec…
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…
Presents an encyclopedic guide to one hundred decorating details that were favored by leading twentieth-century tastemakers, sharing engaging facts, anecdotes, and advice for decorating with traditional flourishes.
A medley of 100 furnishing and decorative elements from A-Z.