Victorian and Edwardian furniture and interiors from the gothic revival to art nouveau / Jeremy Cooper.
By: Cooper, Jeremy
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BookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1987Description: 256 p. : ill.(some col.) ; 30 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0500280223; 9780500280225.Subject(s): Furniture, Victorian | Furniture, Edwardian | Furniture -- History -- 20th century | Interior decoration -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 747.204 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 747.204 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00132459 | |
| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 747.204 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00053367 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The furniture designs of William Morris, C. R. Ashbee and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are even more popular today than in their own lifetimes. The work of other figures, such as William Burges and Christopher Dresser is also being avidly collected.
Jeremy Cooper's survey contains an astonishing range of photographs and drawings: nearly 700 illustrations offer a uniquely comprehensive coverage of nineteenth-century furniture. Every major designer is represented, and the choice of pictures includes little-known pieces from private collections. Rare contemporary photographs of Victorian and Edwardian interiors show how the furniture formed part of complete decorative ensembles.
Extensive commentaries on the illustrations and detailed text provide the essential background - wherever possible using the actual words of the designers, architects and critics themselves.
Bibliography: (pages 248-249) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252).
A matter of style -- A.W.N. Pugin -- William Burges -- Geometric Gothic -- From 'Nankin' to Bedford Park - Morrris and Company -- The Arts and crafts movement -- The 'New Art' -- Heal's and liberty's.
CIT Module ARCH 6007 - Core reading
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. 7)
- Chapter 1 A Matter of Style (p. 9)
- Artists at home
- The taste for the exotic
- The Renaissance style Early Victorian revivals
- New materials
- Chapter 2 A.W.N. Pugin (p. 35)
- From Regency to Reformed Gothic
- Pugin furniture Pugin interiors
- Pugin plagiarists
- Chapter 3 William Burges (p. 55)
- Burges interiors
- Burges furniture
- Burges at home Burges's assistants
- Chapter 4 Geometric Gothic (p. 77)
- The 'Muscular Goths'
- John Pollard Seddon
- Alfred Waterhouse 'Hints on Household Taste'
- Bruce Talbert
- Charles Bevan Commercial design
- Chapter 5 From 'Nankin' to Bedford Park (p. 115)
- Jeckyll and Whistler
- Early Godwin furniture Later Godwin furniture
- Christopher Dresser Richard Norman Shaw
- Collinson & Lock
- Aesthetic variety Cottier and Edis
- Chapter 6 Morris and Company (p. 153)
- Early 'Morris' furniture
- The 'Rossetti' chair
- Morris & Co. Philip Webb
- Stained glass, textiles and tiles Later Morris & Co. furniture
- Stanmore Hall
- Chapter 7 The Arts and Crafts Movement (p. 179)
- The Century Guild
- C.R. Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft W.R. Lethaby and Kenton & Co.
- Ernest Gimson Cotswold craftsmen
- C.F.A. Voysey Walter Cave, Edwin Lutyens and Frank Brangwyn
- Chapter 8 The 'New Art' (p. 211)
- Mackintosh interiors
- Scottish furniture
- George Walton English 'New Art' furniture
- Omega and others
- Chapter 9 Heal's and Liberty's (p. 235)
- Early Ambrose Heal furniture
- Pre-War Heal's Liberty's
- Outside designers at Liberty's
- Gazetteer of public collections of Victorian and Edwardian furniture (p. 247)
- Bibliography (p. 248)
- Notes on the text (p. 249)
- Location of illustrated furniture and drawings (p. 252)
- Acknowledgments for photographs (p. 253)
- Index (p. 254)