The Decoration of Houses - Couverture souple

Wharton, Edith; Jr., Ogden Codman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0815604734 ISBN 13 : 9780815604730

Editeur : Syracuse University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated on the design of the author's Massachusetts home, The Mount, advocated for simple but classically informed choices that resonate profoundly today. The book crystallizes what Wharton found to be troubling in Americans' enthusiasm for ostentation at the turn of the twentieth century–the late Victorian equivalent of the modern "McMansion."

This annotated edition includes a comprehensive introduction that provides relevant biographical information on Wharton, as well as her literary work and how her perspectives on homeownership and décor informed her writing. The reproduction of the book's original illustrations alongside new annotations allows readers to visualize how Wharton's aesthetic preferences informed her writing, life, and charitable works. Valuable to Wharton scholars as well as students of design, The Decoration of Houses presents a definitive look at the tastes of a literary icon.

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À propos de l'auteur

Emily J. Orlando is professor of English and E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield University. She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts, editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton, and co-editor of Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Syracuse University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0815604734
• ISBN 13: 9780815604730
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Éditeur: Orlando Emily J.
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• Personne responsable: non disponible