The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century

The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Christopher Christie

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780719047251

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This work explores the British country house between 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of their political significance.


American Furniture of the 18th Century

American Furniture of the 18th Century

Author: Jeffrey P. Greene

Publisher: Taunton

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9781561581047

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The history and construction of 18th century American furniture is examined in this critical evaluation that looks at the topic both from an aesthetic and technical point of view


Domestic Space in Eighteenth-Century British Novels

Domestic Space in Eighteenth-Century British Novels

Author: Karen Lipsedge

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-09-28

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1137283505

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Examining the work of three authors: Richardson, Haywood and Burney, and their representation of domestic space, this book argues that to make such spaces accessible to modern readers they need to have information of the real domestic. By recreating specifics of these spaces this book innervates the fictional domestic interior for modern readers.


Encyclopedia of Interior Design

Encyclopedia of Interior Design

Author: Joanna Banham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1997-05

Total Pages: 1469

ISBN-13: 1136787585

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First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Dressed to Rule

Dressed to Rule

Author: John E. Vollmer

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2007-10-15

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1551952149

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Vollmer journeys back to the thirteenth-century Chinese Empire, where ancestors of the ruling Manchu conquerors dressed fittingly.


Noble Households

Noble Households

Author: Tessa Violet Murdoch

Publisher: John Adamson Dist A/C

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Published in memory of the architectural historian John Cornforth, the great house inventories document the taste and lifestyle of leading aristocratic patrons and the households that supported them. This book serves as a tribute to his lifelong interest in the field.