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Moving rooms / John Harris.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, John, 1931-2022.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interior decoration.
- Period rooms--Conservation and restoration.
- Period rooms.
- Decorative arts--Collectors and collecting.
- Decorative arts.
- Moving of buildings, bridges, etc.
- Salvage (Waste, etc.).
- Conservation and restoration.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 320 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, [2007]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [308]-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300124201
- 9780300124200
- OCLC:
- 71286640
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