American Interior

Author : Mario Buatta
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847840727
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mario Buatta written by Mario Buatta and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eagerly anticipated first monograph to celebrate the fifty-years-and-counting career of decorating legend Mario Buatta. Influenced by the understated elegance of Colefax and Fowler and the doyenne of exuberant American decor, Sister Parish, Buatta reinvented the English Country House style stateside for clients such as Henry Ford II, Barbara Walters, Malcolm Forbes, and Mariah Carey, and for Blair House, the President’s guest quarters. The designer is acclaimed for his sumptuous rooms that layer fine antiques, confectionary curtains, and sublime colorations, creating an atmosphere of lived-in opulence. This lavishly illustrated survey—filled with images taken for the foremost shelter magazines as well as many unpublished photographs from the designer’s own archive—closely follows Buatta’s highly documented career from his professional start in the 1950s working for department store B. Altman & Co. and Elisabeth Draper, Inc. to his most recent projects, which include some of the country’s finest residences. Buatta shares exclusive insights into his process, his own rules for decorating, and personal stories of his adventures along the way.

Author : Gruff Rhys
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 : 9780241965368
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Interior written by Gruff Rhys and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Interior is a psychedelic historical travelogue from Welsh pop legend Gruff Rhys. LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE In 1792, John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was indeed, as widely believed, a tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans still walking the great plains. In 2012, Gruff Rhys set out on an 'investigative concert tour' in the footsteps of John Evans, with concerts in New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St Louis, North Dakota and more. American Interior is the story of these journeys. It is also an exploration of how wild fantasies interact with hard history and how myth-making can inspire humans to partake in crazy, vain pursuits of glory, including exploration, war and the creative arts. 'Brilliantly life-affirming . . . highlights a world of wonder' Guardian 'A joyous and poignant celebration of the mythical and the real' Caught by the River 'Charming and entertainingly written' Independent GRUFF RHYS is known around the world for his work as a solo artist as well as singer and songwriter with Super Furry Animals and Neon Neon, and for his collaborations with Gorillaz, Mogwai, Dangermouse and Sparklehorse amongst others. The latest album by Neon Neon, Praxis Makes Perfect, based on the life of radical Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, was recently performed as an immersive live concert with National Theatre Wales.

Author : Alan Wanzenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938461095
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey written by Alan Wanzenberg and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed New York architect and interior designer Alan Wanzenberg shares his intimate story and brilliantly crafted projects in this personal monograph, Journey: The Life and Times of an American Architect.

Author : Paula Lupkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315520710
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping the American Interior written by Paula Lupkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together 12 original essays, Shaping the American Interior maps out, for the first time, the development and definition of the field of interiors in the United States in the period from 1870 until 1960. Its interdisciplinary approach encompasses a broad range of people, contexts, and practices, revealing the design of the interior as a collaborative modern enterprise comprising art, design, manufacture, commerce, and identity construction. Rooted in the expansion of mass production and consumption in the last years of the nineteenth century, new and diverse structures came to define the field and provide formal and informal contexts for design work. Intertwined with, but distinct from, architecture and merchandising, interiors encompassed a diffuse range of individuals, institutions, and organizations engaged in the definition of identity, the development of expertise, and the promotion of consumption. This volume investigates the fluid pre-history of the American profession of interior design, charting attempts to commoditize taste, shape modern conceptions of gender and professionalism, define expertise and authority through principles and standards, marry art with industry and commerce, and shape mass culture in the United States.

Author : Roger W. Moss
Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805023121
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Interior Decoration written by Roger W. Moss and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an authoritative look at the way American Victorian houses were decorated in the 19th century, covering all aspects of interior design: floor coverings, woodwork, window treatments and draperies, walls and wallpaper, and ceilings. 225 pictures and drawings; 16-page color insert.

Author : Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350045721
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mid-Century Modern Interiors written by Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally-important designers, it also saw the field of interior design emerge at last as a profession in its own right. Through a series of detailed case studies this book introduces the key practitioners of the period – world-renowned designers including Ray and Charles Eames, Richard Neutra, and George Nelson – and examines how they developed new approaches by applying systematic and rational principles to the creation of interior spaces. It takes us into the mind of the designer to show how they each used interior design to express their varied theoretical interests, and reveals how the principles they developed have become embodied in the way interior design is practiced today. This focus on unearthing the underlying ideas and concepts behind their designs rather than on the finished results creates a richer, more conceptual understanding of this pivotal period in modernist design history. With an extended introduction setting the case studies within the broader context of twentieth-century design and architectural history, this book provides both an introduction and an in-depth analysis for students and scholars of interior design, architecture and design history.

Author : Chauncey Hare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893810542
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interior America written by Chauncey Hare and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea Vesentini
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813941806
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indoor America written by Andrea Vesentini and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls—these are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the postwar years, examining their design, use, and representation. By drawing on a wealth of examples ranging from the built environment to popular culture and film, Andrea Vesentini shows how suburban interiors were devised as a continuous cultural landscape of interconnected and self-sufficient escape capsules. The relocation of most everyday practices into indoor spaces has often been overlooked by suburban historiography; Indoor America uncovers this latent history and contrasts it with the dominant reading of suburbanization as pursuit of open space. Americans did not just flee the city by getting out of it—they did so also by getting inside. Vesentini chronicles this inner-directed flight by describing three separate stages. The encapsulation of the automobile fostered the nuclear segregation of the family from the social fabric and served as a blueprint for all other interiors. Introverted design increasingly turned the focus of the house inward. Finally, through interiorization, the exterior was incorporated into the all-encompassing interior landscape of enclosed malls and projects for indoor cities. In a journey that features tailfin cars and World’s Fair model homes, Richard Neutra’s glass walls and sitcom picture windows, Victor Gruen’s Southdale Center and the Minnesota Experimental City, Indoor America takes the reader into the heart and viscera of America’s urban sprawl.

Author : Chauncey Hare
Publisher : Steidl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protest Photographs written by Chauncey Hare and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Jack Steven. Text by Chauncey Hare.

Author : Adam Lewis
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albert Hadley written by Adam Lewis and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description