Herter Brothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Herter Brothers write by Katherine S. Howe. This book was released on 1994. Herter Brothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Herter brothers' extraordinary accomplishment has never before been the subject of a book. Here, at last, is an in-depth study of these talented men, their company, and its work, prized then as now for its design, richness of materials and detail, superb craftsmanship, and splendid diversity.
Creating the Artful Home
Creating the Artful Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating the Artful Home write by Karen Zukowski. This book was released on 2006. Creating the Artful Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Creating the Artful Home: the Aesthetic Movement and Its Influence on Home Decor covers the history of a movement that emphasized "art for art's sake"-and the influence it had on home decor. The Aesthetic Movement in America lasted just a few decades (1870-1900), and served mainly as a bridge between the high Victorian sensibility and the radical shift to the Arts & Crafts style. The movement germinated among artists who used opulent color, decorative patterning, and lavish materials simply for the aesthetic effects they could evoke. It was commonly held that a home that expressed an artful, harmonious soul would instill high aesthetic and moral merit in its inhabitants. The Aesthetic Movement in America helped to popularize the idea that everyone should be able to enjoy beautiful, well-made homes and furnishings-not just the very wealthy. Artful homes could be composed from brilliant antique store finds, discriminating department store purchases, and gems hand-made by the ladies of the house. It was the moment when people embraced the idea that only a beautiful home could be a happy home. Karen Zukowski delves into the movement's establishment, evolution, and main characters, and shows how today's homes can incorporate Aesthetic principles: Through suggestion rather than statement, sensuality, massive use of symbols, and synaesthetic effects-that is, correspondence between words, colors and music. How influential designers such as Clarence Cook and Charles Eastlake popularized the idea that beautiful homes with tasteful furnishings could be available to practically everyone How today's designers, manufacturers, and retailers deploy the very same stylistic markers of the Aesthetic Movement: rich color, layered pattern and texture, mixtures of historical motifs
"Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age"
"Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age" write by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen. This book was released on 2016-01-04. "Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Bulletin presents new discoveries and historical documentation on the preeminent New York cabinetmaker George A. Schastey, illuminating his life and his under-appreciated body of work while providing the first in-depth analysis of the Worsham-Rockefeller house and its patron Arabella Worsham.
Gilded Mansions
Gilded Mansions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gilded Mansions write by Wayne Craven. This book was released on 2009. Gilded Mansions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Gilded Age (1865-1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europe's blue-blooded nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaunted their new wealth--especially where their homes were concerned. They erected French chateaus and Italian palazzos on New York's Fifth Avenue, at Newport, and elsewhere, often taking inspiration from Parisian styles of the Second Empire. They rejected more modest American styles just as they rejected middle-class society, and for interior decoration they turned to such artisans as Tiffany, Herter Brothers, and Allard's of Paris. Immensely readable and illuminated with 250 stunning color and black-and-white illustrations, this is the fascinating story of America's first millionaire society, the way they lived and partied, and the lush artistic and cultural legacy they established.
Herter Brother
Herter Brother - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Herter Brother write by Herter Brothers. This book was released on . Herter Brother available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
