Musical Instruments as works of art

Arts & Photography

THORNTON, Peter

Music

Priory Press

408 pages with 235 colour and 299 black-and-white illustrations

AUTHENTIC DECOR THE DOMESTIC INTERIOR 1620-1920 /ANGLAIS

Architecture

Weidenfeld

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

Product description\nThe Italian Renaissance Interior 1400-1600 by Peter Thornton.\nFrom Publishers Weekly\nFor the wealthy homeowner in Renaissance Italy, creating domestic comfort was a matter worthy of tremendous thought and planning. Women ran the household and their influence was "particularly strong" in establishing a harmonious environment, giving attention to the smallest details of embroideries, furniture, mirrors, potted plants, cradles, etc. In an extraordinary album with hundreds of intriguing period illustrations, London-based curator Thornton ( Authentic Decor ) offers a privileged glimpse behind closed doors during the Italian Renaissance. Building was a voluptuous passion, and 15th-century architects and designers worked hand-in-hand, pioneering such new-fangled innovations as the apartment, a group of rooms closely associated with a single person. Complete with the bric-a-brac of daily life--bathtubs, table covers, ceramics, bird cages--this chronicle suggests that living itself was an art in the Italy of Michelangelo. 
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Italian Renaissance interior, 1400-1600

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

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)

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.

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