British Architects and Craftsmen, a Survey of Taste, Design, and Style during Three Centuries 1600-1830

Edité par B. Batsford Ltd., London, 1945

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Hard cover, 8vo in red cloth with titles to the spine in gold. Brown end papers color frontispiece and illustrated with 200 reproductions from photographs, drawings and paintings. viii, 196 pp., First Edition.**CONDITION: Very Good. Lacking dust jacket. Spine lightly sunned, with a bit of a lean and very minor fraying at rear joint, two bumped corners. Hinges in order. Former owner's name in fountain pen to end paper. **An interesting illustrated survey to a succession of British architectural styles--from the 16th century Elizabethan and Jacobean, specifically noting the works and influences on architects Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren. The Rococo influence on various crafts, from ceramics, to Chippendale's furniture, to bookbinding are discussed, showing how changing tastes in design are reflected (The work of bookbinder Samuel Mearns is mentioned in this regard.) Wren's patronage of the master of Rococo style wood carving, Grinling Gibbons (d. 1723) is made evident; his work on Windsor Castle, Hampton Court Palace and various London churches and great houses, made the the walls and panelling come alive in three dimensional splendor in imitation of fruits, fabrics and other very realistic forms. Finally, the more restrained Georgian style of architect Robert Adam and his successors is discussed . **AUTHOR Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th baronet, was one of an influential triumvirat of writers and artists in 1920's and 30's London, who along with his elder sister and brother Edith and Osbert Sitwell, promoted the work of some of the Modern English poets of their generation in the "Wheels" anthologies of the 1920's.…

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Titre
British Architects and Craftsmen, a Survey of Taste, Design, and Style during Three Centuries 1600-1830
Auteur
Sitwell, Sacheverell
Éditeur
B. Batsford Ltd., London
Année de publication
1945
État de l'article
Very Good
Type de livre
Book
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Hard Cover
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First Edition.
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