Main entry:

Morley, John, 1933-2001.

Title & Author:

Regency design, 1790-1840 : gardens, buildings, interiors, furniture / John Morley.

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams, 1993.

Description:

473 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Colour Plates. General influences; style, taste, and fashion; scholarship; poetry and painting -- pt. I. Parks and Gardens. Before 1790: The Antecedents. The influence of antiquity: formality. The influence of antiquity: nature. Modern influences. Art, Nature, and the Picturesque. Modern gardens. The 1790s: Associationalism and the Picturesque. Associationalism: Alison. The Picturesque and the formal garden: Price. The extreme Picturesque: Knight. Prospect and the irregular house. Eclecticism. The rejection of the extreme Picturesque. The Reptonian synthesis. Early nineteenth-century eclecticism. New plants. The 'Geometric' school. The Picturesque school. The Gardenesque. Vulgarity and philistinism. Garden Buildings and Furnishings. Ruins and temples. The rustic and the primitive. The exotic. Garden seats and alcoves. The conservatory. Profusion. Town and Village Planning. Regularity and regular landscaping. Irregularity and irregular landscaping. Urban landscape and geometry. The synthesis. The urban park -- pt. II. Exterior Architecture. Formative Influences. The stylistic quandary. Laugier: the column. French Romantic Classicism: primitivism. New techniques: cast iron, stone, stucco. The Vanbrughian synthesis. Architectural miscegenations. The Sources of Architectural Vocabulary. Classical pattern books. Modern French sources. Practising British architects c. 1790. Classical Styles. Primitive classicism. The Italian vernacular and the domestic Italianate. 'Grecian'. Stylistic variants: the villa. The Greek Revival and French Romantic Classicism. The archaeological Greek Revival. Decline of the archaeological Greek Revival. Soane. The palatial Italianate: Palladian. The palatial Italianate: 'Tuscan'. 'Classical' ineptitudes. Gothic Styles. The Gothic predicament. Sublimity and patriotism. Gothic construction. Destruction and conservation. Design sources. Chronology of Gothic. Domestic 'cathedral' or 'ecclesiastical' Gothic. Modern Gothic churches. The 'castle' style. The 'Gothic and Roman' mixed castle style. The 'castellated' or 'mixed style of Queen Elizabeth's Gothic'. Later 'castellated' houses. School Gothic. Tudor vernacular: Norman. Exotic Styles. Egyptian: influences on design. Egyptian style buildings. Chinese and Indian design sources. Chinese style. Indian style. Exotic syntheses. The Regency Synthesis. The 'picaresque' house. The cottage orne -- pt. III. Interior Decoration. Formative Influences. Conflicting modes: picturesque disorder versus the domestic museum. The Theatre. The 'decorated' and the 'architectural' interior. The Decorated Interior: Classical Styles. Varieties of 'arabesque'/'grotesque'. 'Etruscan'. 'Pompeian'. Soane and the Villa Negroni. 'Panelling out'. Trellis and foliage. 'Landscape'. Parquet. 'Antique drapery'. The tent room. Percier and Fontaine. Classical revivalism. 'Seventeenth century'. 'Renaissance revival'. 'Simplicity'. The Architectural Interior: Classical Styles. Semi-public areas; picture and sculpture galleries; theatres. The 'Palladian' formula. Stylistic variants. Nash 'Empire'. The Soanean synthesis. 'Louis Quatorze' or rococo revival. Gothic Styles. Gothicism. Beckford of Fonthill. 'Ecclesiastical' Gothic. Romantic antiquarianism. A Gothic museum. Scholarly restorations and re-creations. Norman and Swiss. Exotic Styles. Chinoiserie -- 'Etruscan', 'ethnic', and 'rococo'. The apotheosis of chinoiserie, and the Indian taste. The Egyptian taste. 'Profusion'. The Cottage. The cottage orne and the artisan's cot -- pt. IV. Furniture. Formative Influences. Stylistic influence of room decoration. Lightness and heaviness. Comfort. Emblemism and sweetness. The patron, the upholsterer, and the pattern books. Classical Styles. Influence of antique sources. Holland and the French. Classicism in the 1790s. Elementary forms. The Holland transitional style. The 'archaeological' antique. Thomas Hope. George Smith. The 'Repository' and English design. The 'Repository' and French design. Revivalism and Eclecticism. 'Louis Quatorze' and eclectic furnishing. Bullock and Brown. The 1820s and after: classicism and revivalism. Exotic and sophisticated techniques. Late Regency classical eclecticism. Gothic Styles. Gothic: impediments and inhibitions. Early Regency Gothic. 'Repository' and later Regency Gothic. Antiquarianism. Eclectic antiquarianism. 'Elizabethan' or 'Old English'. 'Authenticity'. Chinese and Indian.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0810937689
9780810937680
030200615X
9780302006153

Subject:

Decoration and ornament Regency style.
Gardens, Regency.
Architecture, Regency.
Furniture, Regency.
Interior decoration History 18th century.
Interior decoration History 19th century.
Décoration et ornement Style Regency.
Jardins Regency.
Architecture Regency.
Meubles Regency.
Décoration intérieure Histoire 18e siècle.
Décoration intérieure Histoire 19e siècle.
Interior decoration
Design
Bildband
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86877
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:93-B1985
Status: Available