Early Georgian interiors
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Early Georgian interiors
Classmark: Bedford Collection B243
Creator(s): Cornforth, John (1937-)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication city: New Haven
Date(s): 2004
Language: English
Size and medium: 12 unnumbered pages, 360 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729525
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015606669705181
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Aspects of early Georgian fashion and taste -- The uses of rooms and changing social practice, 1685-1760 -- The primacy of upholstery -- Aspects of display -- The significance of William Kent and the development of architectural decoration -- Parade, comfort, and variety in interiors, 1740-1760 -- The rise of historical thinking -- The role of pictures in decoration -- The influence of the Orient -- Planning and sequences of decoration, 1720-1760.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B246: Contains loose clipping: John Cornforth, Early Georgian interiors [review] by Lisa White (Furniture History Society Newsletter, no. 161, Feb. 2000)
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B243: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: JDE/25.
Access and usage
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