Thomas Jeckyll : architect and designer, 1827-1881
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Thomas Jeckyll : architect and designer, 1827-1881
Classmark: Bedford Collection A363
Creator(s): Soros, Susan Weber; Arbuthnott, Catherine
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture (Host institution)
Related people: Jeckyll, Thomas, 1827-1881; Jeckyll, Thomas, 1827-1881
Publisher: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, by Yale University Press
Publication city: New Haven; London
Date(s): [2003]
Language: English
Size and medium: 300 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723153
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019823977305181
Description
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, July 17-October 19, 2003.
Illustrations on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-282) and index.
Rediscovering Thomas Jeckyll -- Thomas Jeckyll (1827-1881) : a forgotten life -- The architectural career of Thomas Jeckyll -- The eclectic restorer : the church restorations of Thomas Jeckyll -- Furniture and interior design -- A union of art and industry : metalwork designs -- Chronology -- Checklist of the exhibition.
"Thomas Jeckyll ranks among the least understood and most tragic Aesthetic Movement figures in England. This illustrated book explores his innovative and brilliant designs in architecture, furniture, metalwork, and interiors and restores him to his deserved place among the architect/designers of his time. It is the definitive study of Jeckyll's life and work and presents his notable buildings and diverse examples of his decorative arts." "Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott examine Jeckyll's most important architectural commissions, among them the extravagant five-story Cambridge town house known as Rance's Folly. They also discuss the interiors he designed - some of the most captivating and evocative Aesthetic Movement rooms of his time - which included the famous Peacock Room created for shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland, and later decorated by James McNeill Whistler. The book also considers Jeckyll's remarkable furniture and metalwork designs, for which he is best-known
today, including the Four Seasons gates, which were exhibited and highly praised at the Exhibition Universelle, Paris, in 1867 and the Weltaustellung, Vienna, in 1873"--Jacket.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A363: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: AS/52.
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