Hugh Honour Livres

Presents various developments in archeology and art historical research. This book offers a fresh perspective on various developments shaping our cultural history.

It offers all that the visitor with a concern for beauty and for leisurely sight-seeing will require.' Financial TimesIf ever a guidebook were designed to be read as literature it is Mr Honour's. Even those who know Venice well and love it well will add to their appreciation from this seemingly endless store of information.' Economist

With almost 5000 entries and more than 1000 illustrations, this dictionary provides a concise guide to the decorative arts of the West from the middle ages to the present day. Though mainly concerned with the furniture and furnishings of the European and North American private house, it also includes accounts of Chinese and Japanese pottery and porcelain, Peruvian pottery, Islamic metalwork and pottery, Turkish, Persian and other oriental carpets and many other objects which have influenced the development of the decorative arts in the West. John Fleming has contributed to "Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh and Rome", "The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture" and "A World History of Arto". Hugh Honour has published "Chinoiserie", "The Companion Guide to Venice", "Neo Classicism" and "Romanticism".

Provides information on the men and techniques that have influenced the development of architecture

Presents various developments in archeology and art historical research. This book offers a fresh perspective on various developments shaping our cultural history.

Mit einem Vorwort von Arno Schoenberger. 1984. 687 S. : zahlr. Ill. Hardcover/Pappeinband Sehr guter Zustand. Schnitt leicht angestaubt. Innen tadellos.