Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
36
result(s) for
"Interior decoration France."
Sort by:
The French-inspired home
Learn how to master the art of creating sleek, elegant, and chic French interiors with this guide.
Book
Interior decorating in nineteenth-century France
This book explores the beginnings of the interior design profession in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources, from collecting and advice manuals to pattern books and department store catalogues, it demonstrates how new forms of print media were used to 'sell' the idea of the unified interior as a total work of art, enabling the profession of interior designer to take shape. In observing the dependence of the trades on the artistic and public visual appeal of their work, the book establishes crucial links between the fields of art history, material and visual culture, and design history.
eBook
Designing the French Interior
Title Description: Designing the French Interior traces France’s central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films, in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. This important volume enables an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.
eBook
French chic living : simple ways to make your home beautiful
\"Wonderfully accessible ideas for maintaining a stylish home, drawing on the ways French mothers and grandmothers manage their households. French houses ooze with charm and their inhabitants, despite busy schedules, regularly entertain at home. What are the secrets for leading such a chic lifestyle? In this insightful tome, lavishly illustrated with images of a country residence in a romantic French town, de Dampierre shares her knowledge of ways to achieve a warm and inviting home. Her continental traditions make beautifying your house a joy. Household chores from stocking the pantry to washing and storing delicate linens to cleaning wooden and stone surfaces are discussed. Tips for adorning your home range from lining dresser drawers with pretty papers and enhancing them with homemade scents to creating delicate floral arrangements of fresh-cut blooms for pleasant accents throughout your rooms. Basic instructions are also provided for designing a simple and attractive aromatic kitchen garden full of herbs, fruit, and vegetables, whether on a plot of land or in attractive containers; its produce then becomes the basis for preparing fresh, seasonal recipes to share with family and friends.\"--Publisher description.
Book
Designing the Reader's Interior
This article considers the relationship between two sites for the staging of feminine subjectivity in early twentieth-century France: the woman's magazine and the domestic interior. At a time when furniture and interior decoration were said to represent, in some way, a person's individuality, this article asks how the readers of women's magazines were addressed as subjects in a debate about the subjectivity of the interior, from which they had previously been excluded. The luxury magazine Fémina (1901–38) forged a psychological approach to the issue. It developed a range of significant representational strategies to appeal directly, if synthetically, to the reader's sense of self. Moreover, Fémina constructed the interior, like the magazine itself, as a metaphor for the imaginative negotiation and performance of a range of ideal feminine subject positions. These representational mechanisms and models of femininity are analysed as the means to unpack the notions of feminine subjectivity being defined in relation to the interior.
Journal Article
Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque
Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque is the first substantial biographical study of Claude III Audran, a late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century master of ornament and a proponent of cutting-edge design who took inspiration from contemporary sources. This work investigates Audran's accomplishments and the factors that impacted the longevity and arc of his successful career, taking into consideration the contextual variables that influenced and shaped his work. Audran's achievements bridge an important period with the eclipse of the Guild Maîtrise and the rise of the Académie royale. Audran subcontracted young artists, such as Watteau, Lancret, and Desportes, in order to circumvent restrictions on guild practice enacted by the crown. Looking at his commissions not only reveals the elite taste of his patrons, including Louis XIV, but also Audran's ability to use elements from popular culture to animate his arabesques, which created hallmarks of rococo interior design.
eBook
Charles Zana : the art of interiors
\"Named by Architectural Digest as a \"talent to not be missed,\" Charles Zana has had a distinguished twenty-year-long career that has brought him to London, Gstaad, Tel Aviv, Monaco, and more to design spaces imbued with his signature modern-meets-timeless aesthetic. By merging thoughtfully placed pops of color, curated furnishings and art, and luxurious yet livable touches, the Paris-based interior architect creates unique spaces celebrated for their striking structure and rich visual poetry. In this debut monograph, Zana beautifully showcases his work within the residential and commercial spheres, including villas boasting clean lines and light-filled spaces; avant-garde Parisian apartments; and showrooms defined by an effortless blend of traditional details within an edgy, industrial space. Sumptuously illustrated with two hundred color photographs that truly capture Zana's cultivated style, this volume is an essential addition to any library of interior design\"--Amazon.com.
Book
Fashioning Spaces
InFashioning Spaces, Heidi Brevik-Zender argues that in the years between 1870 and 1900 the chroniclers of Parisian modernity depicted the urban landscape not just in public settings such as boulevards and parks but also in \"dislocations,\" spaces where the public and the intimate overlapped in provocative and subversive ways. Stairwells, theatre foyers, dressmakers' studios, and dressing rooms were in-between places that have long been overlooked but were actually marked as indisputably modern through their connections with high fashion.Fashioning Spacesengages with and thinks beyond the work of critics Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin to arrive at new readings of the French capital.
Examining literature by Zola, Maupassant, Rachilde, and others, as well as paintings, architecture, and the fashionable garments worn by both men and women, Brevik-Zender crafts a compelling and innovative account of how fashion was appropriated as a way of writing about the complexities of modernity infin-de-siècleParis.
eBook