Main entry:

Harris, John, 1931-2022.

Title & Author:

Moving rooms : the trade in architectural salvages / John Harris.

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2007.

Description:

xv, 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Salvaging the interior : 1500-1820 -- Salvage and a more amateur antiquarianism -- Continental imports and the Wardour Street trade -- England and the French connection -- Interiors and a new professionalism : 1850-1950 -- The growth of a transatlantic trade in rooms and salvages -- The period room in European museums -- North American museums and the English room -- Into American houses go English rooms -- William Randolph Hearst, the great accumulator -- Check-list of British rooms and salvages exported to the USA.

Summary:

"This book documents the break-up, sale, and re-use of salvages in Britain and America, where the fashion for so-called 'Period Rooms' became a mainstay of the transatlantic trade. Much appreciated by museum visitors, period rooms have become something of a scholarly embarrassment, as research reveals that many were assembled from a variety of sources. One American embraced the trade as no other - the larger-than-life William Randolph Hearst - who purchased tens of thousands of architectural salvages between 1900 and 1935"--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300124200
0300124201

Subject:

Interior decoration.
Period rooms Conservation and restoration.
Decorative arts Collectors and collecting.
Moving of buildings, bridges, etc.
Salvage (Waste, etc.)
Décoration intérieure.
Salles d'époque Conservation et restauration.
Arts décoratifs Collectionneurs et collections.
Déménagement de constructions, ponts, etc.
interior design.
interior decoration.

Added entries:

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253299
Call No.: BIB 183029
Status: Available