Musical Instruments as works of art

Arts & Photography

THORNTON, Peter

Music

Priory Press

1998, oversized paperback, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, U.K., 216 pages. An overview of design history of 4 centuries of European design, from 1470 to 1870, 438 plates in all.

FORM AND DECORATION /ANGLAIS

History

Weidenfeld

1979 first edition, hard cover has navy cloth and gold lettering on spine. Architecture and interior design spanning the seventeenth century major building projects and commissions.

Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France, and Holland (Studies in British Art)

Architecture

Yale University Press

From Contents: France Aristocratic Fashion; Spread of French Ideal; Architectural Framework; Upholsterer's Task; Upholsterer's Materials; Upholsterer's Furnishing; Beds, Cloths of Estate and Couches; Upholstered Seat-furniture; Tables and Cup-boards; Other Furniture and Decorative Features; Lighting; Specific Rooms and Decoration. (Description by http-mart)

Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France, and Holland (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

Paul Mellon Centre BA

Baroque and Rococo Silks

Faber&Faber

With 235 color and 299 black-and-white illustrations.

Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior 1620-1920

Photography & Video

Viking Peguin INC

A sumptuously illustrated interior design book covers six fifty-year periods, portraying all manner of houses around the world--ranging from the homes of aristocrats and artists to those of the bourgeoisie--and including 299 black-and-white illustrations.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Viking Adult

The Italian Renaissance Interior, 1400-1600

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Sir John Soane (1753-1837), the son of a bricklayer, rose to become one of England's greatest architects as well a remarkably astute collector of objects and works of art. His house, in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, was bequeathed to the British nation by a private Act of Parliament in 1833 for the benefit of "Amateurs and Students of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture," and the building itself and the collections within now comprise a unique, and extremely popular, public museum. Soane was at the very center of artistic activity in late Georgian England, and his collections reveal the intellectual preoccupations of his day. Amassed over his long lifetime during his travels and from his friends and professional contacts, they include paintings by Hogarth and Turner; Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities; Chinese ceramics; and a vast number of drawings, clocks, models, furniture, gems, jewelry, manuscripts, and other objets d'art that reveal the breadth of Soane's tastes and interests. This handsome book focuses on more than 120 works from Soane's collections, ranging from paintings and sculpture to a watch given by Queen Anne to Sir Christopher Wren. Peter Thornton, Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, and his research assistant, Helen Dorey, have written lively commentaries to the 130 illustrations, 99 in full color, providing information about the objects themselves and their history, and at the same time shedding light on Soane's life, character, and cultural pursuits. Soane prepared his museum personally, spending huge sums of money and gathering items for their intrinsic value, their appearance, or their associations. His goal was to create a poetic setting, using architecture to evoke the spirit of antiquity. For this reason he arranged his collections not didactically by periods or cultures, but rather mingled together, offering a springboard for the imagination. Sir John Soane: The Architect as Collector is the first book to focus purely on the collections of this working architect, who acquired his treasures as an anthology of antique architecture and decoration and whose hope was that future generations would find in them a source of reference and inspiration.

Sir John Soane: The Architect As Collector, 1753-1837

Dorey, Helen

The Zircon Affair

Hyperion Books

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