Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland

Fülszöveg

'Offers dizzying temptations. After even a cursory flick, it is impossible not to feel one's curiosity piqued by surviving descriptions, for example, of the Countess of Castlemaine's rooms at Wanstead House, "finely adorned with China paper, the Figures of Men, Women, Birds, Flowers, the Liveliest 1 ever saw.'"
Matthew Dennison, The World of Interiors
'You would be forgiven for turning to Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland for the pictures alone. Here are tantalising glimpses of private chambers, hung with geometric arrangements of Chinese prints in the mid-eighteenth century. Here, too, are Augustus Charles Pugin's watercolours, through which we see the lavish interiors of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, as they pass through a series of rapid and fantastical changes in the early i8oos. Facsimiles of unused paper found in family archives bring an unexpected shock of gaudy colour, and with it a reminder that, when first hung, the complex decorative schemes in this book looked... Tovább

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'Offers dizzying temptations. After even a cursory flick, it is impossible not to feel one's curiosity piqued by surviving descriptions, for example, of the Countess of Castlemaine's rooms at Wanstead House, "finely adorned with China paper, the Figures of Men, Women, Birds, Flowers, the Liveliest 1 ever saw.'"
Matthew Dennison, The World of Interiors
'You would be forgiven for turning to Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland for the pictures alone. Here are tantalising glimpses of private chambers, hung with geometric arrangements of Chinese prints in the mid-eighteenth century. Here, too, are Augustus Charles Pugin's watercolours, through which we see the lavish interiors of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, as they pass through a series of rapid and fantastical changes in the early i8oos. Facsimiles of unused paper found in family archives bring an unexpected shock of gaudy colour, and with it a reminder that, when first hung, the complex decorative schemes in this book looked very different to the procession of faded Farrow & Ball-toned designs as we now see them.
Luxuriate only in the images, though, and you stand to miss de Bruijn's formidable detective work, charting the complex cross-pollination of influences between Western Europe and China.'
Hettie Judah, Art Quarterly
'Emile de Bruijn's Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland exhaustively reviews its subject matter, with to-die-for pictures to boot.'
Veranda magazine
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