Main entry:

Muthesius, Stefan.

Title & Author:

The poetic home : designing the 19th-century domestic interior / Stefan Muthesius.

Publication:

New York : Thames & Hudson, 2009.

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-320) and index.
A poetic everyday home? -- Art in the home : a new discourse -- The unified interior : from decoration to design -- Atmosphere -- Character -- A disparate legacy.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This book examines the Western domestic interior from around 1800 to the mid-1890s. Rather than concentrating in a traditional way on individual types of furnishing (wallpapers or carpets, for example) or on familiar historical styles (Regency, Biedermeier, neo-Gothic, etc.), it considers the design of the interior as a whole, making use of original, long-neglected 19th-century texts and images to reveal what the designers, producers, shops and clients actually thought about the business of creating characterful interiors. Form, texture, color, light, and the establishment of national styles emerge as burning issues, widely covered in the numerous publications that catered to a newly awakened interest. Full of fresh insights and comprehensive in scope, this extraordinary work of scholarship will be essential reading for all who are interested in interior design and material culture."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780500514191
0500514194

Subject:

Interior decoration History 19th century.
Decorative arts History 19th century.
Décoration intérieure Histoire 19e siècle.
Arts décoratifs Histoire 19e siècle.
Decorative arts.
Interior decoration.
Ausstattung
Druckgrafik
Innenarchitektur
Interieur
Wohnen
Interieurkunst.
Innenarchitektur Geschichte.
Innenarchitektur Geschichte 19. Jh.
Inredning historia 1800-talet.
Interiörer (arkitektur) 1800-talet.
Architettura d'interni sec. 19 storia.
Arredamento sec. 19 storia.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260518
Call No.: BIB 191425
Status: Available