The adventure of British furniture, 1851-1951
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The adventure of British furniture, 1851-1951
Classmark: Bedford Collection A375
Creator(s): Joel, David (1891-)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1953
Language: English
Size and medium: 256 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723778
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019831973105181
Description
Includes index.
The Victorian background -- William Morris 1834-1896 -- Ernest Gimson 1864-1919 and the Barnsleys -- L'art nouveau and some commercial pioneers -- The nineteen-twenties -- The nineteen-thirties -- Furniture in war-time and post-war frustration -- Design set free -- Furniture at the festival -- Artist-craftsmen of today -- Royal influences -- Chamber of horrors -- Some diversions and experiments -- Notes on some Empire furniture timbers -- Biographical notes of some in the present century who have contributed to the movement -- Some textiles 1920-1951 -- We beg to differ -- Some influences on the modern movement in furniture.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A375: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEG/200.
Access and usage
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