Today we are surrounded by glossy publications and TV shows demonstrating the latest interiors. We take notions of style, comfort and atmosphere completely for granted, even designing our own rooms to achieve the right 'mood'. Yet this language, seemingly so current, emerged in the 19th century, when a combination of economic, social and artistic factors first allowed architects, designers and clients to think about home interiors in a completely new way. Their challenge was to create atmosphere and character in ordinary ...
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Today we are surrounded by glossy publications and TV shows demonstrating the latest interiors. We take notions of style, comfort and atmosphere completely for granted, even designing our own rooms to achieve the right 'mood'. Yet this language, seemingly so current, emerged in the 19th century, when a combination of economic, social and artistic factors first allowed architects, designers and clients to think about home interiors in a completely new way. Their challenge was to create atmosphere and character in ordinary living rooms - in short, to aspire to the new ideal of the 'poetic home'. This book examines the Western domestic interior from the 1800s to the mid-1890s, but rather than concentrate on individual types of furnishing or on familiar historical styles, it proceeds in a radically different way: it considers the design of the interior as a whole, making use of original 19thcentury texts and images to reeveal what the designers, producers, shops and clients actually thought about the business of conjuring up romanticized interiors.
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Good. The book may have minor cosmetic wear (i.e. creased spine/cover, scratches, curled corners, folded pages, minor sunburn, minor water damage, minor bent). The book may have some highlights/notes/underlined pages-Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included-Safe and Secure Mailer-No Hassle Return.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Folio-over 12-15" tall. Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in green boards lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. Select Bibliography, Notes, Index. With 396 illustrations, 120 of which are in full color. First edition. No previous ownership marks A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A very large and heavy book, Priority and International orders will require extra postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Folio. VERY HEAVY. 352pp, index, notes, bibliography, 396 ills (120 col). Or green cloth in jacket. Near new. The Western domestic interior from around 1800 to the mid-1890s considering the design of the interior as a whole.
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4to. 352 pp. Hard Cover. With Dust Jacket. Color and black and white plates throughout. Very Good. As new. Shrink wrapped. *Heavy volume, could cost extra for shipping.
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New in New jacket. First edition. Quarto. 352 pp; 120 color & 276 b/w illustrations; bibliography; notes; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. This book traces significant changes in logic-based home design in America and Europe throughout the 19th century, outlining the practice of "poetic home" design through which a structure was built for atmosphere and character and embellished with new decorative materials and light-enhancing features.