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GUSN-242431
304 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 26 cm.
Interior decoration History.
Middle class Dwellings History.
Interior architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Interieurs.
Parissien, Steven.
Introduction : Interiors and the designer -- The wind of change : the European home in 1700 -- Anglo-Saxon rectitude : the proportional interior in Britain and America -- Expanding horizons : Rococo and Chinoiserie -- Principles and proportion : the Neoclassical interior -- The democratic interior : celebrating the middle-class home in the early nineteenth century -- Backwards and forwards : 1851 and all that -- The colour of industry : western interiors and the possibilities of technology -- Mammon confronted : Arts and Crafts and design reform -- Clean and bright : the age of electricity -- Form and function : modernism and Art Deco -- Safety first : celebrating the familiar -- Embracing the machine : the postwar interior -- One foot in the past: back to the future -- Technology harnessed? : new century, new directions.
London : Laurence King
304 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 302) and index.
Complimentary copy, November 24, 2008. Contains Historic New England images.
9781856695381 (hbk.)
1856695387 (hbk.)
Stacks NK1860.P37 2009
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