The art and business of interior decoration / by B. Russell Herts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herts, B. Russell (Benjamin Russell), 1888-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interior decoration firms--Management.

Interior decoration firms.

Interior decoration--Practice.

Interior decoration.

Physical Description:

xiv, 134 p., [62] p. of plates : ill. ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Small, Maynard, c1922.

Contents:

The interior decorator and those who help and hinder him

The architect and the decorator and the difficulties that arise between them

Decorators and decorators

great and small, commercial and aesthetic, creative and perfunctory

Decorators and tradesmen

Is the decorator a business man or a professional

The decorator and the client

an analysis of groups, their handicaps and advantages

Some duties and difficulties of the decorator: to himself, his client, his competitors and those who labor with him

Certain specific problems of decoration

The small and simple apartment

The larger and more sumptious apartment

City homes, their alteration, architecturally and decoratively

Country houses

old, new and reconstructed; modest and magnificent

Hotels, lobbies, restaurants, grill rooms, bedrooms

Stage settings for the drama, the musical comedy and farce, the moving pictures, impressionistic and realistic

Theatres and public buildings, rotundas, waiting rooms, auditoriums

Shops: milliners, dressmakers, men's shops, department stores, tea rooms, beauty parlors, decorators, studios, etc.

The hope of a great decorative art in America.

Notes:

Plates printed on both sides.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Andrew Craig Morrison.

Other Format:

Online version: Herts, B. Russell (Benjamin Russell), b. 1888. Art and business of interior decoration.

OCLC:

1876134