Moving rooms / John Harris.

Author/creator Harris, John
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, ©2007.
Descriptionxv, 320 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Subjects

Contents Salvaging the interior : 1500-1820 -- Salvage and a more amateur antiquarianism -- Continental imports and the Wardour Street trade -- England and the French connection -- Interiors and a new professionalism : 1850-1950 -- The growth of a transatlantic trade in rooms and salvages -- The period room in European museums -- North American museums and the English room -- Into American houses go English rooms -- William Randolph Hearst, the great accumulator -- Check-list of British rooms and salvages exported to the USA.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [308]-310) and index.
LCCN 2006029075
ISBN0300124201 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780300124200 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks NK 1860 .H37 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold