Moving rooms : the trade in architectural salvages / John Harris.
"This book 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] ; London :
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,
[2007]
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "This book 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"--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 320 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-310) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300124201 9780300124200 |