Anca I. Lasc

Interior decorating in nineteenth-century France

The visual culture of a new profession

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproduction enabled the still-unnamed profession of the interior designer to take shape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 960g
• ISBN-13: 9781526113382
• ISBN-10: 1526113384
• Artikelnr.: 52211079

Autorenporträt

Anca I. Lasc is Associate Professor of History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 The collector as taste advisor and interior decorator:
popular advice manuals and the orchestration of the private interior 2 The
inventor of interiors: old professions in search of a name 3 Private home,
artistic stage: the circulation and display of interior dreamscapes 4 The
image of furniture: department stores and the trade in interior decoration
designs 5 Beautiful disorder, exception to the rule: the development of a
new design aesthetic Epilogue: the presentness of historicism: the Musée
centennal du mobilier and the legacy of proto-interior designers Index