The history of furniture : twenty-five centuries of style and design in the Western tradition / John Morley.
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TextPublication details: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, c1999.Description: 352 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. ; casedISBN: - 082122624X
- 9780821226247
- 749.2
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-342) and index.
Antiquity -- Disintegration of Classicism, 300-1450 -- 'Pointed' styles: Islamic and Gothic -- Renaissance revival of antiquity: Classicism and Anti-Classicism -- Baroque contrasts -- Battle of styles: English Classicism, rococo and 'Goût Grec' - 'Modified Rococo' and the New Neo-Classicism -- Grotesque and 'Archaeological' Classicism -- Eclectic Revivalism -- Frugality and functionalism -- Wilder shores of style: China, Japan, India, Egypt, Africa -- Latter-day polarities.
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