Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France - The Visual Culture of a New Profession

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproduction enabled the still-unnamed profession of the interior designer to take shape.

Table des matières

Introduction
1 The collector as taste advisor and interior decorator: popular advice manuals and the orchestration of the private interior
2 The inventor of interiors: old professions in search of a name
3 Private home, artistic stage: the circulation and display of interior dreamscapes
4 The image of furniture: department stores and the trade in interior decoration designs
5 Beautiful disorder, exception to the rule: the development of a new design aesthetic
Epilogue: the presentness of historicism: the Musée centennal du mobilier and the legacy of proto-interior designers
Index

A propos de l'auteur

Anca I. Lasc is Associate Professor of History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute, USA

Résumé

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproduction enabled the still-unnamed profession of the interior designer to take shape. -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Anca I. Lasc, Anca I. (Assistant Professor) Lasc, Lasc Anca I.
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781526113382
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1338-2
• Pages: 288
• Thèmes: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design Mup; Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design Mup; Studies in Design and Material
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Architecture d'intérieur, design; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, Professional interior design, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), c 1800 to c 1900, Interior design, decor and style guides, HOUSE & HOME / Decorating & Furnishings, Architecture: interior design