"Chinoiserie" 1993 JACOBSON, Dawn (SOLD)
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JACOBSON, Dawn
[240] pp.
Phaidon Press Ltd
1993
11 3/4" x 10 1/4"
Fine/ Fine
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Chinoiserie is one of the strongest, most consistent strains in western taste. It has affected every area of decor and design, transforming furniture and garden follies, tableware and tapestries.
Contents as follows:
Ch. 1. Grandeurs and Treasures: The origins of Chinoiserie --
Ch. 2. From Chinese Art to Chinoiserie: China comes to Europe --
Ch. 3. The Pleasure of Life: Rococo chinoiserie in France --
Ch. 4. The Spread of the Style: Chinoiserie in Europe in the eighteenth century --
Ch. 5. No Small Spice of Madness: Rococo chinoiserie in English interiors --
Ch. 6. Chinoiserie in the Landscape: The jardin anglo-chinois in the eighteenth century --
Ch. 7. Through the Looking-Glass: Nineteenth-century chinoiserie and the spread to the New World --
Ch. 8. The Twentieth Century: Chinoiserie's last hurrah.
"Chinoiserie is one of the strongest, most consistent strains in western taste. It has affected every area of decor and design, transforming furniture and garden follies, tableware and tapestries. The style's origins lie in the tales of Marco Polo and the merchant adventurers of the seventeenth century. The fantasy of "Cathay", the mysterious East, fired the imagination of all Europe with tempting visions of an exotic land. Excitement at the luxury and splendour of eastern imports grew to a fever as Chinese goods entered the salons of the West. In the eighteenth century the French court's devotion to the chinoiserie style led to its adoption throughout Europe, from Palermo to St Petersburg, while England, equally affected by the passion for all things Chinese, bedecked its houses and gardens with chinoiseries of its own individual kind. Chinoiserie burgeoned throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, emerging as one of Europe and America's most vigorous and versatile decorative styles. "Chinoiserie" carefully follows the development of the style from its tentative origins up to its pervasive influence today. The sumptuous illustrations are a window onto its range and variety, its past and present use in gardens, interiors, furniture and all the applied arts, providing a comprehensive view of the way in which the exoticism of the East became incorporated into European taste."