Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-century France : The Visual Culture of a New Profession
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| Title: | Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-century France : The Visual Culture of a New Profession |
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| Description: | This book explores the beginnings of the interior design profession in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources, from collecting and advice manuals to pattern books and department store catalogues, it demonstrates how new forms of print media were used to ‘sell'the idea of the unified interior as a total work of art, enabling the profession of interior designer to take shape. In observing the dependence of the trades on the artistic and public visual appeal of their work, the book establishes crucial links between the fields of art history, material and visual culture, and design history. |
| Authors: | Anca I. Lasc |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Interior decoration--France--History--19th century |
| Categories: | ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Social History, HOUSE & HOME / Decorating & Furnishings |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book explores the beginnings of the interior design profession in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources, from collecting and advice manuals to pattern books and department store catalogues, it demonstrates how new forms of print media were used to ‘sell'the idea of the unified interior as a total work of art, enabling the profession of interior designer to take shape. In observing the dependence of the trades on the artistic and public visual appeal of their work, the book establishes crucial links between the fields of art history, material and visual culture, and design history. |
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| ISBN: | 9781526113382 9781526151582 9781526113399 9781526113405 |
