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基本説明
For the first time the whole history of the Western tradition in furniture has been put together in a single authoritative and immensely readeble volumes.
Full Description
A history of furniture. John Morely documents the aesthetics of furniture, its social and cultural context, the sequence of styles - from Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman through Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and onwards - and the individual touches of craftsmen or designers used to give it character. The story is shaped by the conflict between "Classical" and "anti-Classical", order and fantasy, and includes exotic styles from China and Japan, India and Africa. Furniture finds a huge variety of forms, depending on comfort and convenience but also changing fashions in interiors, as well as the influence of politics, religion, architecture and the fine arts. Works by famous designers - Boulle, Chippendale, Riesener, Mackintosh, Eames - appear in the context of the stylistic ideals of their times, and more than 600 illustrations are closely integrated to the text.
Contents
Antiquity; the disintegration of Classicism, 300-1450; the "pointed styles" - Islamic and Gothic; the Renaissance revival of antiquity - Classicism and anti-Classicism; Baroque contrasts; the battle of styles - English Classicism, Rococo, and "Gout Grec"; "Rococo neo-Classicism"; grotesque and "archaeological" Classicism - synthesis and antithesis; eclectic revivalism; frugality and functionalism; the wilder shores of style - China, Japan, India, Egypt, Africa; latter-day polarities.
