Author: James Mew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholic beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Covers the history and origins of all kinds of beverages: from water to cocktails.

Author: Anne Topham
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Ivor Noël Hume
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780910412070
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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A review of the pottery and porcelain found in Williamsburg, with a summary of the wares and their datable characteristics.

Author: Hilary J. Grainger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904965312
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Sir Ernest George (1839-1922) was one of England's greatest architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He specialised in domestic work and was responsible for beautiful and imaginative houses in both town and country, and with his three successive partners, he carried out over 200 works both in Britain and abroad. He was also a watercolourist of considerable stature whose work in the medium was acclaimed in his own time. This richly illustrated book is the first study of the man and his work and will establish him as one of the major names in his profession. His life and career is fully documented, the buildings are described and a full catalogue of works is provided. A special feature is a study of pupils and assistants who passed through George's office, including several who went on to be famous and successful - Edwin Lutyens, Guy Dawber, J. J. Joass, R. Weir Schultz - and also the first woman to be become a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Ethel Mary Charles. Hilary Grainger is a dean at the London College of Fashion and is the recognised expert on George and his architecture. She is also a leading authority on the architecture of cremation and is the chair of the Victorian Society.

Author: Viktoria Luise (Herzogin zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Edmund Clarence Stedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Author: Diana Davis
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066412
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.

Author: David Goodway
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846310253
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. This work seeks to recover that indigenous anarchist tradition. It argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals.

Author: William Harrison Ukers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: Charles Truman
Publisher:
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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