Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color
Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color

Author: Leatrice Eiseman

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2011-10-19

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0811877566

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Pantone, the worldwide color authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of 100 transformative years. From the Pale Gold (15-0927 TPX) and Almost Mauve (12-2103 TPX) of the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris to the Rust (18-1248 TPX) and Midnight Navy (19-4110 TPX) of the countdown to the Millennium, the 20th century brimmed with color. Longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, d cor, and fashion, and carefully match them with 80 different official PANTONE color palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues. This vibrant volume takes the social temperature of our recent history with the panache that is uniquely Pantone.

A History of Interior Design
A History of Interior Design

Author: John F. Pile

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1856694186

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Delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, the arts and crafts, technology and product design all overlap.

Spaces of Experience
Spaces of Experience

Author: Charlotte Klonk

Publisher:

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 9780300151961

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This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the 18th to the late 20th century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created—the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show—and it traces the different scientific, political and commercial influences that lay behind their development. Charlotte Klonk shows that scientists like Hermann von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt advanced theories of perception that played a significant role in justifying new modes of exhibiting. Equally important for the changing modes of exhibition in art galleries was what Michael Baxandall has called “the period eye,” a way of seeing informed by the impact of new fashions in interior decoration and by department store and shop window displays. The history of museum interiors, she argues, should be appreciated as a revealing chapter in the broader history of experience.

Slavery and the British Country House
Slavery and the British Country House

Author: Madge Dresser

Publisher: Historic England Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848020641

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The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.

Cleopatra's Barge
Cleopatra's Barge

Author: David L. Ferguson

Publisher: Little Brown

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Johannes Kaspar Richter von Kronenscheldt was born in 1644 in Saxony. He emigrated in 1684 and settled in Boston, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Allen in 1694. They had five children. He died in 1711. Descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland and elsewhere.

Painting the Century
Painting the Century

Author: Robin Gibson

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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For art lovers everywhere, a beautiful collection of portraiture from 1920 to 2000, with over 100 master reproductions by Picasso, Bacon, Warhol, Dali and others in full-color.