Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior 1620 - 1920
Posted Mar 21, 2010 at 19:11 CET in Books and Buildings and interiors.
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Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior 1620 - 1920 by Peter Thornton is a book about historical interior decoration and architecture.
If you want to learn about historical interiors this book is amazing. Each chapter starts with a longer text about the stylistic period in question and the rest of the chapter is all paintings, drawings and plans of interiors and architecture, everything with in depth captions. There are so many beautiful pictures and I find it very easy to learn when you actually have a visual example right next to the text.
Unfortunately this book is no longer in print but I think it’s pretty easy to find second hand.
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Ree
Sounds like a very interesting book…We perhaps know more about palace life than in ordinary life…Might make an interesting exhibition…”The Up-Wardly Mobile 18th Century”…
Aidan
Perter Thornton`s book is excellent,so too is the more recent “Eighteenth - Century Decoration” by Charles Saumarez Smith,published in 1993.
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