John Fowler : the invention of the country-house style
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: John Fowler : the invention of the country-house style
Other titles: Invention of the country-house style
Classmark: Bedford Collection D336
Additional creator(s): Hughes, Helen (1957-) (Editor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Traditional Paint Forum (Sponsoring body); English Heritage (Sponsoring body)
Related people: Fowler, John, 1906-1977; Fowler, John, 1906-1977
Publisher: Donhead
Publication city: Shaftesbury, Dorset
Date(s): [2005]
Language: English
Size and medium: xv, 79 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719884
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019761648205181
Description
Papers from the one-day conference "Inspired by the past - John Fowler's approach to decoration and restoration in a changing world" held in London, July 2001, organised by the Traditional Paint Forum in collaboration with English Heritage.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
During the course of his career the eminent interior designer John Fowler, hailed as the 'prince of decorators' (1906-1977), transformed some of Britain's most important historic interiors. His work has a lasting legacy - even today the 'Fowler style' is tacitly accepted as the 'correct' style for the decoration of a period interior. This book, resulting from a one day symposium organized by English Heritage and the Traditional Paint Forum, provides a fascinating account of the work of John Fowler and the radical representation of historic interiors which took place before and after World War II.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at D336: Contains loose clipping: In the grand tradition [review] by Peter Fane-Saunders (The Georgian, issue 2, 2005).
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at D336: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: JDS/9.
Access and usage
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