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The Random House collector's encyclopedia : Victoriana to Art Deco
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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There have been many books on the individual movements and figures of the decorative arts of this century, but "The Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts 1890-1940" is the first to provide a comprehensive and authoritative account of all the classic movements in design of the modern period. Every section of this encyclopedia has been written by an expert in that particular field. The editor of the volume is Philippe Garner, an expert at the London auction house of Sotheby Parke Bernet and head of the department of modern decorative arts and photography at Sotheby's Belgravia.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum's highly successful art nouveau exhibition is replaced in 2003 by an art deco exhibition. This volume focuses on one of the twentieth-century's most popular and distinctive styles.
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"The greatest of all international expositions and world fairs is generally conceded to have been the incredible Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in London. Officially titled The Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, it was held in a gigantic greenhouse-like building that covered almost 20 acres, used almost a million square feet of glass, and taxed the resources of a nation to erect. This was the Crystal Palace, one of the wonders of the 19th century, in which the nations of the civilized world exhibited their achievements in the arts and sciences. Almost as important as the exhibition itself was the Illustrated Catalogue printed by the Art-Journal in 1851. The semi-official record of the exposition and much the best publication about it, it circulated around the civilized world and brought the London of Queen Victoria (with the comparable high achievements of Paris, Berlin, Liège, New York) into the living milieu of countless designers and inventors. Richly illustrated, it displayed an entire universe of design: ceramics, textiles, cast-iron work, domestic furniture, cut glass, decorative hardware, chimneypieces, carpets, pianos, figureheads, lighting fixtures, statuary, terra-cotta work, razors, wall papers, stoves, carriages, weapons, sleighs, billiard tables, clocks, beehives, mosaics, silverware, and hundreds of other artifacts. A text accompanying more than 1500 illustrated items gives the illusion that you are on a walking tour of the Palace itself."--Back cover.
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Picture-and-text survey of man's achievements in politics, science and the arts, from the opening of the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 to the outbreak of World War I.
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Wyatt was an architect who was a principal organizer of the Exhibition of 1851, after which he worked with I. K. Brunel and Owen Jones designing architecture, wallpaper, furniture, carpets, tiles, etc. He was made the first Slade Professor of fine arts at Cambridge in 1869. William Robert Tymms designed plates and covers for a number of books. The plates for Westwood's "Facsimiles of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon & Irish Manuscripts" (1868) were designed by him, as were some of the plates for J. B. Baring's "Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition," 1862.
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Exterior of the Fine Arts Building showing the exhibition sign and the building's sculpture garden.
photCL MLP 1823