Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages
New Haven and London: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press, 2007. Hardcover. Darkest brown cloth, burgundy and BW illus.dj , 320 pp., BW and color illus. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges & usual markings etc. light toning to pg edges, otherwise, clean & bright. dustjacket has ID sticker to lower spine; plastic cover lightly scuffed.). Item #161771
ISBN: 9780300124200
From a college library; due date slip has no removal stamps. A nice copy. Photo is from a previous copy in our collection. "Documents the break-up, sale, and re-use of salvages in Britain and America, where the fashion for so-called 'Period Rooms' became a mainstay of the transatlantic trade. Much appreciated by museum visitors, period rooms have become something of a scholarly embarrassment, as research reveals that many were assembled from a variety of sources. One American embraced the trade as no other -- the larger-than-life William Randolph Hearst -- who purchased tens of thousands of architectural salvages between 1900 and 1935." (dj text) Shows the moving of complete rooms, with full interior decoration, from one site to another.
OCLC: 71286640
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