Author : Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz
Release : 2020-01-07
Genre : Design
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A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture - 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 A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture write by Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz. This book was released on 2020-01-07. A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume translates and examines a rare conspectus of architectural and decorative taste published at the very end of the eighteenth century. Baron Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzüglichsten Völker in Beziehung auf die innere Auszierung der Zimmer und auf die Baukunst) is little known today. Racknitz, a German aristocrat, traced an early global history of design and ornament through discussions of what he distinguished as twenty-four regional historical tastes. He included a diverse group of ancient classical civilizations, European nations and peoples, Eastern civilizations, and more exotic reaches of the world. This sensitive and informed translation by Simon Swynfen Jervis includes reproductions of the original color plates and essays on Racknitz’s biography, his publication, and the deeper German Enlightenment context, making this an essential volume for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture, decorative arts, and garden design.