Capricious Fancy: Draping and Curtaining the Historic Interior, 1800-1930
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Hardcover. Slate gray cloth, yellow and color illus. dust jacket, illus. flyleaves, 292 pp., many color, BW and duotone illus. G (Ex-art library, with spine label; i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages; dj spine has changed color in sun; interior is clean and crisp.). Item #161707
ISBN: 9780812243222
"Chronicles the changes in fashionable curtain and drapery styles in the United States and Europe during the Industrial Revolution. This unique compilation contains hundreds of illustrations, most in full color, reproduced from more than one hundred rare pattern books, workroom manuals, trade catalogues, and examples of design literature selected from the collections of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, including the Samuel J. Dornsife Collection of The Victorian Society in America. Each design is annotated with a description of its source and significance." (dj) Of interest to designers, decorators, and historians alike.
OCLC: 894128852
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