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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466734503321

Autore

Lasc Anca I.

Titolo

Interior decorating in nineteenth-century France : the visual culture of a new profession / / Anca I. Lasc

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, MI : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-5261-3878-6

1-5261-1339-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some colour)

Collana

Studies in design and material culture

Disciplina

745.44944

Soggetti

Interior decoration - France - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Plates between pages 126 & 127.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Epilogue: The presentness of historicism: the Musee centennal du mobilier et de la decoration and the legacy of proto-interior designersBibliography; Index

Front matter; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The collector as taste advisor and interior decorator: popular advice manuals and the orchestration of the private interior; The inventor of interiors: old professions in search of a name; Private home, artistic stage: the circulation and display of interior dreamscapes; The image of furniture: department stores and the trade in interior decoration designs; Beautiful disorder, exception to the rule: the development of a new design aesthetic

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the beginnings of the interior design profession in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources, from collecting and advice manuals to pattern books and department store catalogues, it demonstrates how new forms of print media were used to 'sell' the idea of the unified interior as a total work of art, enabling the profession of interior designer to take shape. In observing the dependence of the trades on the artistic and public visual appeal of their work, the book establishes crucial links between the fields of art history, material and visual culture, and design history.