Download or read book A Documentary History of American Interiors written by Edgar de Noailles Mayhew and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documentary History of American Interiors written by Edgar D. Mayhew and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1983-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old House Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.
Download or read book Shaping the American Interior written by Paula Lupkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together 12 original essays, Shaping the American Interior maps out, for the first time, the development and definition of the field of interiors in the United States in the period from 1870 until 1960. Its interdisciplinary approach encompasses a broad range of people, contexts, and practices, revealing the design of the interior as a collaborative modern enterprise comprising art, design, manufacture, commerce, and identity construction. Rooted in the expansion of mass production and consumption in the last years of the nineteenth century, new and diverse structures came to define the field and provide formal and informal contexts for design work. Intertwined with, but distinct from, architecture and merchandising, interiors encompassed a diffuse range of individuals, institutions, and organizations engaged in the definition of identity, the development of expertise, and the promotion of consumption. This volume investigates the fluid pre-history of the American profession of interior design, charting attempts to commoditize taste, shape modern conceptions of gender and professionalism, define expertise and authority through principles and standards, marry art with industry and commerce, and shape mass culture in the United States.
Download or read book The Book Of American Interiors Prepared By Charles Wyllys Elliott From Existing Houses written by Charles Wyllys Elliott and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Houses and Homes written by Barbara J. Howe and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles. Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.
Download or read book The Book of American Interiors written by Charles Wyllys Elliott and published by Boston : James R. Osgood. This book was released on 1876 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tasteful Interlude written by William Seale and published by Altamira Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian's dilemma is illustrated in these photographs of interiors. As complete room settings, most of them are quite foreign to us; we identify only with their parts--a familiar type of chair or table or vase. Household things are common fragments of history; their individual meanings and purposes are redefined rapidly, and their contexts are subject to alteration. Some objects survive many years because they are adaptable. Others grown obsolete and are discarded. The thousands of household things that appear in these pictures are seen as they were in actual daily use in the past. It is probable that the rooms did not remain as we see them for very long, for small revisions take place endlessly in any house. Were it not for the cameras of some six dozen photographers, these few scenes would have passed away quietly.
Download or read book The Antiques Book of American Interiors written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of American architecture, the houses of the Colonial and Federal periods are considered to be, without question, the height of harmonious design and elegance. "American Interiors", in a book as stylish as its subject, brings together the most unique and beautiful houses of these periods.
Download or read book To the Ladies written by Sylvia Graham Olejniczaka and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic sites and houses represent the essence of who we are. The preservation of our history through accurate interpretation is an important aspect of keeping these sites alive. This book provides multiple interpretations of the same historic house and its evolution from deterioration to dismantlement and reconstruction at a new site and the importance of its current location to American history, as well as insight into the lives of the women involved in the history of the eras in which it was built and later reconstructed.
Download or read book Empire s Nature written by Amy R. W. Meyers and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century. Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned--particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise. The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.
Download or read book Expansion of Everyday Life p written by Daniel E. Sutherland and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rockingham Ware in American Culture 1830 1930 written by Jane Perkins Claney and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking case study that links social and cultural interpretation with descriptive classification and historical context.
Download or read book Making the American Home written by Marilyn Ferris Motz and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of a house into a home has been in our culture a traditional task of women. The articles examine this process as they reflected the role of American middle-class women as homemakers in the years 1840-1940.
Download or read book Historic Furnishing Plan Clara Barton House Clara Barton National Historic Site Maryland written by Sandra Weber and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside Texas written by Cynthia A. Brandimarte and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Inside Texas: Culture, Identity and Houses, 1878–1920” is a 464 page book with 296 photos that tests and rejects the notion that Texas homes, like all things Texan, were unique and different. Over the 40 year time span covered by the book, decorating ideas nationally and in Texas went from the era of Victorianism with “all that stuff” to the spare, clean lines of the arts and crafts movement. By 1920, like Americans across the country, many Texans, especially the wealthier, were taking their decorating ideas from the new professionals – architects and designers – and their homes reflected less their own identity than the taste and eye of the decorator. In seven years of research, Brandimarte traveled the state, collecting photographs of interiors of Texas homes – rare in comparison to exterior views. The images reprinted here are arranged neither in chronological order nor according to decorating style but by identities –occupation, family, ethnicity, social group, region, culture and refinement, class and style. Brief biographical information about the homeowners is incorporated into the text. “Inside Texas” is about people and houses. It is social history, a significant contribution to scholarship, an invaluable resource for preservationist, docents, architects and designers as well as a book to be treasured by anyone who loves old houses.
Download or read book Ornamenting the Cold Roast written by Dorothee Wagner von Hoff and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the meticulous case studies of three individual houses from different eras, which serve to depict the social, political, and cultural effects that domestic architecture and interior design had on the upper class, the city of Boston, and a national American identity. It takes the reader on a journey to 18th and 19th century Boston and provides insight into the lives of these prominent men and women as seen through the perspective of their homes. It is a novel examination of the cultural significance of domestic architecture and interior design and, because of its story-telling character and extensive attention to detail, it is fascinating for curious readers and cultural historians alike.
