History of Interior Design and Furniture: From Ancient Egypt to Nineteenth-Century Europe
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (843 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0471286761 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
For designers who need stylistic information regarding historic periods, this book is very well organized and thorough. This book is the only current publication of a dedicated history of interiors and furniture. For students, this book offers the possibility of owning a history text without purchasing a general text that makes history only a small part of the information. —Marianne Beecher, Assistant Professor, Iowa State Robbie Blakemore has undertaken a monumental and ambitious project. She has accomplished her goal with zeal and good organization, along with excellent research and scholarship. —Joseph Braswell, Interior Designer, New York City
"The book is thoroughly researched, well-reasoned, and well-written volume" (The American Reference Books Annual, March 2007)
Better for furniture/antiques dealers than designers Michael S. Cole This book is a good encyclopedia of the history of interior design going back to ancient era- it catalogues the general overview for each period chronologically, explaining the function and materiality of a space or piece of furniture. The book is particularly nice for classifying particular styles of furniture and may be more suited to an antiques dealer or furniture dealer than. Mark Pirolo said Underwhelming and overpriced. The text of this volume is decent and well organized but in the area that most designers are interested in, visual examples, it is sorely lacking. A very minimal section of color photographs (which jump from Roman to the Renaissance. No sign of the Gothic)and a series of low contrast black and white ones are augmented with a series of uninspired drawings. All of this might still . idstudent said Dense, unorganized, uninspired. My History of Furnishing's to 1750 class used this textbook. I believe I speak for the entire class when I say that while it does have thoroughly researched information, the presentation is tedious. Topics were presented in a very frustrating illogical manner that circled around the point. The text is chock full of key terms, but uses no change of font to emphasize them. Worst of