Nineteenth-century design from Pugin to Mackintosh

Author

Gere, Charlotte; Whiteway, Michael

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Source

350 ill. (200 col.); sel. bibliogr.; index ; 312 p. ; 1993

ISBN

0-297-83068-6

Publisher

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Documents experimental design in the 19th c. by relating surviving furniture, interiors and decorative art to drawings, published and patented or registered designs, exhibition catalogues, reports and criticism, and recorded commissions; and examines the avant-garde against the social and cultural milieu of Victorian life. Provides an appendix of architects, designers and manufacturers.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Decorative arts -- United Kingdom
• Design
• Decorative arts
• Great Britain
• 1800-1900
• Aesthetics
• Society
• Victorian

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Arts décoratifs -- Royaume-Uni
• Design
• Arts décoratifs
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1800-1900
• Esthétique
• Société
• Victorien (art)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00349070

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