Kelmscott : exoticism and a Philip Webb chair / by A.R. Dufty, F.S.A.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dufty, Arthur Richard, author.

Contributor:

Society of Antiquaries of London, publisher.

Adlard and Son, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Webb, Philip, 1831-1915.

Webb, Philip.

Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company.

Kelmscott Manor (Kelmscot, England).

Chairs--England--19th century.

Chairs.

Furniture, Victorian.

Genre:

Essays.

Illustrated works.

Offprints.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

pages [116]-120, [5] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Manufacture:

[Dorking, England] : [Adlard and Son Ltd]

Other Title:

Kelmscott : exoticism and a chair by Philip Webb

Place of Publication:

[London] : [Society of Antiquaries of London], [1986]

Summary:

"The evidence is here reviewed from which to conclude that a chair now at Kelmscott Manor was designed by Philip Webb and exhibited in the Mediaeval Court at the 1862 International Exhibition in London, despite the fact that it has nothing stylistically medieval about it. Analysis of the design does, however, suggest the assimilation of older Egyptian and Japanese ideas and thus that the chair in 1862 was considered derivative."--Page 120.

Notes:

"Reprinted from The antiquaries journal, being the journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1986 volume LXVI part I"--Page [4] of cover.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013.

OCLC:

1268231351