Muthesius Stefan: The Poetic Home
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Жанр : Thames&Hudson
Издательство : Thames&Hudson
Год издания : 2009
Аннотация:
Today we take for granted notions of designing rooms to achieve the right ‘mood’. Yet this language only emerged in the 19th century, when designers and clients began to think about interiors in a completely new way. Their challenge was to create atmosphere and character in ordinary living – the new ideal of the ‘poetic home’. This book examines domestic interiors from around 1800 to the mid-1890s. Rather than concentrating on individual types of furnishing (wallpapers or carpets, for example) or on historical styles (Regency or Biedermeier), it considers the design of the interior as a whole, making use of neglected 19th-century texts and images to reveal what the designers and clients actually thought about the business of creating characterful interiors. Stefan Muthesius is Honorary Professor in the School of World Art Studies and Museology at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. He has written several award-winning books, including The English Terraced House, and is co-author of Victorian Architecture, published by Thames & Hudson in the World of Art series.