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Wallpaper in America : from the seventeenth century to World War I / Catherine Lynn ; with a foreword by Charles van Ravenswaay.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection NK3412 .L9 1980
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynn, Catherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- Wallpaper--United States.
- Wallpaper.
- Memory.
- Wallpaper--United States--History.
- memory (psychological concept).
- Medical Subjects:
- Memory.
- Genre:
- History
- Books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Atkin, Tony (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 533 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [1980]
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- The earliest American wall hangings
- How wallpaper was made
- Eighteenth-century English wallpaper styles
- Eighteenth-century French wallpaper styles
- Oriental wallpapers
- Eighteenth-century American wallpapers
- The paper hanger's stock in trade
- Color schemes and the use of wallpapers
- pt. 2. The nineteenth century.
- French scenic wallpapers
- French wallpaper ornaments of the early and mid-nineteenth century
- French wallpapers and the development of the American craft
- Repeating patterns of the early nineteenth century
- Bandboxes
- Making wallpaper by machine
- 1840 to 1870: the imprint of machines, the elaboration of styles
- The 1870s and 1880s: a major change in taste
- 1890 to 1915: revivals and the pursuit of novelty.
- Notes:
- "A Barra Foundation/Cooper-Hewitt Museum book."
- Includes bibliographical references (page 514) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393014487
- 9780393014488
- OCLC:
- 7057744
- Online:
- French equivalent / Équivalent français
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