Author: Gail Caskey Winkler
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812243222
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The materials that decorate our homes and protect us from cold, light, and prying eyes reveal as well as conceal. Drapery and curtain designs tell the story of great shifts in home and work life that accompanied innovations in textile manufacturing technology and the fashion industry over the course of the nineteenth century. Capricious Fancy chronicles the changes in fashionable curtain and drapery styles in the United States and Europe during the Industrial Revolution. This unique compilation contains hundreds of illustrations, most in full color, reproduced from more than one hundred rare pattern books, workroom manuals, trade catalogues, and examples of design literature selected from the collections of The Athenæum of Philadelphia, including the Samuel J. Dornsife Collection of The Victorian Society in America. Each design is annotated with a description of its source and significance. Gail Caskey Winkler's research confirms the mastery of French upholsterers in the art of draping windows, bedsteads, and doorways. The book follows the transmission of high styles from Paris to London to North America before the middle of the nineteenth century and the development of the retail home fashion business, including the mail-order trade. Even as wealth spread, disparity continued between the upper and middle classes in adopting the newest fashions. Meanwhile, the audience for interior fashion publications switched from male building professionals and artisans to female homemakers. With 325 images and historical commentary from a leading educator and historic preservation practitioner, Capricious Fancy is a source of authentic inspiration for preservation professionals, interior designers, set designers, museum curators, and anyone with a passion for period décor.
Capricious Fancy
Author: Gail Caskey Winkler
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812243222
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The materials that decorate our homes and protect us from cold, light, and prying eyes reveal as well as conceal. Drapery and curtain designs tell the story of great shifts in home and work life that accompanied innovations in textile manufacturing technology and the fashion industry over the course of the nineteenth century. Capricious Fancy chronicles the changes in fashionable curtain and drapery styles in the United States and Europe during the Industrial Revolution. This unique compilation contains hundreds of illustrations, most in full color, reproduced from more than one hundred rare pattern books, workroom manuals, trade catalogues, and examples of design literature selected from the collections of The Athenæum of Philadelphia, including the Samuel J. Dornsife Collection of The Victorian Society in America. Each design is annotated with a description of its source and significance. Gail Caskey Winkler's research confirms the mastery of French upholsterers in the art of draping windows, bedsteads, and doorways. The book follows the transmission of high styles from Paris to London to North America before the middle of the nineteenth century and the development of the retail home fashion business, including the mail-order trade. Even as wealth spread, disparity continued between the upper and middle classes in adopting the newest fashions. Meanwhile, the audience for interior fashion publications switched from male building professionals and artisans to female homemakers. With 325 images and historical commentary from a leading educator and historic preservation practitioner, Capricious Fancy is a source of authentic inspiration for preservation professionals, interior designers, set designers, museum curators, and anyone with a passion for period décor.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812243222
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The materials that decorate our homes and protect us from cold, light, and prying eyes reveal as well as conceal. Drapery and curtain designs tell the story of great shifts in home and work life that accompanied innovations in textile manufacturing technology and the fashion industry over the course of the nineteenth century. Capricious Fancy chronicles the changes in fashionable curtain and drapery styles in the United States and Europe during the Industrial Revolution. This unique compilation contains hundreds of illustrations, most in full color, reproduced from more than one hundred rare pattern books, workroom manuals, trade catalogues, and examples of design literature selected from the collections of The Athenæum of Philadelphia, including the Samuel J. Dornsife Collection of The Victorian Society in America. Each design is annotated with a description of its source and significance. Gail Caskey Winkler's research confirms the mastery of French upholsterers in the art of draping windows, bedsteads, and doorways. The book follows the transmission of high styles from Paris to London to North America before the middle of the nineteenth century and the development of the retail home fashion business, including the mail-order trade. Even as wealth spread, disparity continued between the upper and middle classes in adopting the newest fashions. Meanwhile, the audience for interior fashion publications switched from male building professionals and artisans to female homemakers. With 325 images and historical commentary from a leading educator and historic preservation practitioner, Capricious Fancy is a source of authentic inspiration for preservation professionals, interior designers, set designers, museum curators, and anyone with a passion for period décor.
Sermons
Author: Jean-Baptiste Massillon
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Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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The Cry
Author: Sarah Fielding
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
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The Monist
Author: Paul Carus
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Vols. 2 and 5 include appendices.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Vols. 2 and 5 include appendices.
The Bibelot
Author: Thomas Bird Mosher
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Crime, Habit Or Disease?
Author: William Held
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Category : Homosexuality
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Category : Homosexuality
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Poems in Prose
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040652933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
"Poems in Prose" by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Arthur Symons). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040652933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
"Poems in Prose" by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Arthur Symons). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
An essay on laughter; its forms, its causes, its development and its
Author: James Sully
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Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Pages : 464
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The Tragedy of the Caesars
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
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Category : Claudia gens
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Category : Claudia gens
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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