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Author: Philip D. Zimmerman
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781882650170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile demonstrating the high level of artistry attained by furniture-makers of the period, this selection in many ways reflects the evolving character of domestic life in America during a seminal period in the country's history.
Author: Thomas S. Michie
Publisher: MFA Publications
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780878468225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The world-renowned collection of European decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is full of sumptuous surprises ... the objects ... vary in scale from a salt cellar in the shape of a small crustacean to the fine wood paneling of an entire dining room. Their dates of manufacture span more than a thousand years ... Presented here with an introduction to the topic and individual texts on each piece, these diverse works are organized chronologically and by styulistic movements to highlight their hidden histories"--Publisher's description.
Author: J. Michael Flanigan
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charissa Bremer-David
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 1993-09-09
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0892362219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume includes concise, illustrated entries on the more than 450 examples of furniture, porcelain, and silver from the Museum's collection. New to this expanded edition are sections devoted to maiolica and glass. An index of previous owners and updated bibliographies are of particular help to the scholar.
Author: Gillian Wilson
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2002-03-07
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 089236632X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJ. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths’ work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions—among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld—it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.
Author: Bard Graduate Center
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-12-10
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 0300196148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of spectacular breadth, covering the history of decorative arts and design worldwide over the past six hundred years
Author: Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide,
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2006-05-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0300104847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautifully produced volume is the first to survey the Metropolitan Museum's world-renowned collection of European furniture. One hundred and three superb examples from the Museum's vast holdings are featured. They originated in workshops in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, or Spain and date from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. A number of them belonged to such important historical figures as Pope Urban VIII, Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, and Napoleon. The selection includes chairs, tables, beds, cabinets, commodes, settees and sofas, bookcases and standing shelves, desks, fire screens, athéniennes, coffers, chests, mirrors and frames, showcases, and lighting equipment. There is also one purely decorative piece, a superb vase made for a Russian noble family who, according to one awestruck viewer, "owned all the malachite mines in the world." The makers of some of the objects are unknown, but most of the pieces can be identified by label, documentation, or style as the work of an outstanding European designer-craftsman, such as André-Charles Boulle, Thomas Chippendale, David Roentgen, or Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Author: Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781014378873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Dena Goodman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 041594953X
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Author: Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley
Publisher: Highlights from the Philadelph
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780876332962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"American Furniture, 1650-1840: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art show early American furniture participated in an international visual language. This volume provides an important resource for scholars of American furniture, illuminates the cultural and mercantile life of the fledgling nation, and offers a lively introduction to the donors, curators, and personalities who have shaped the institution from its earliest days to the present"--
