Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France: The Visual Culture of a New Profession

by Anca I Lasc

Book Overview

This book explores the beginnings of the interior design profession in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources, from collecting and advice manuals to pattern books and department store catalogues, it demonstrates how new forms of print media were used to 'sell' the idea of the unified interior as a total work of art, enabling the profession of interior designer to take shape. In observing the dependence of the trades on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526151588
• ISBN13: 9781526151582
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"