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Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland: National Trust Series

Autor Emile de Bruijn
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 oct 2017
Nominated for the 2019 Karel van Mander prizeChinese wallpaper has been an important element of western interior decoration for three hundred years. As trade between Europe and China flourished in the seventeenth century, Europeans developed a strong taste for Chinese art and design. The stunningly beautiful wall coverings now known as 'Chinese wallpaper' were developed by Chinese painting workshops in response to western demand. In spite of their spectacular beauty, Chinese wallpapers have not been studied in any depth until relatively recently. This book provides an overview of some of the most significant Chinese wallpapers surviving in the British Isles. Sumptuously illustrated, it shows how these wallpapers became a staple ingredient of high-end interiors while always retaining a touch of the exotic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781781300541
ISBN-10: 1781300542
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 170 colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 230 x 280 x 29 mm
Greutate: 1.73 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Philip Wilson Publishers
Seria National Trust Series

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Charts the origins and stylistic development of Chinese wallpaper and shows their timeless quality and visual strength

Notă biografică

Emile de Bruijn studied Japanese and museology at the universities of Leiden and Essex. He worked in the Japanese and Chinese departments of the auctioneers Sotheby's in London before joining the National Trust, where he is now a member of the central collections management team. Emile has lectured and published on many different aspects of chinoiserie in historic houses and gardens. He was a co-author (with Andrew Bush and Helen Clifford) of the catalogue Chinese Wallpaper in National Trust Houses (National Trust, 2014).

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsMapIntroduction: A Global Product1. The British Taste for Things Chinese 1600-17402. India Pictures 1690-17603. The Emergence of Chinese Wallpaper 1740-17654. Realms of Virtue And Harmony 1750-18105. Auspicious Gardens 1765-17906. Print Rooms 1760-1815 7. Variations on a Theme 1790-18358. A Late Flowering 1830-18909. Revival 1870-197010. A Living Tradition: Chinese Wallpaper NowNotesBibliographyPicture CreditsIndex

Recenzii

Offers dizzying temptations. After even a cursory flick, it is impossible not to feel one's curiosity piqued by surviving descriptions, for example, of the Countess of Castlemaine's rooms at Wanstead House, "finely adorned with China paper, the Figures of Men, Women, Birds, Flowers, the Liveliest I ever saw."
You would be forgiven for turning to Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland for the pictures alone. Here are tantalising glimpses of private chambers, hung with geometric arrangements of Chinese prints in the mid-18th century. Luxuriate only in the images, though, and you stand to miss de Bruijn's formidable detective work, charting the complex cross-pollination of influences between Western Europe and China.
Chinese wallpaper has been an important element of western interior decoration for three hundred years. As trade between Europe and China flourished in the seventeenth century, Europeans developed a strong taste for Chinese art and design. The stunningly beautiful wall coverings now known as Chinese wallpaper were developed by Chinese painting workshops in response to western demand. Despite their spectacular beauty, Chinese wallpapers have not been studied by European scholars in any depth until relatively recently. Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland, by Emile de Bruijn, changes that. It provides an overview of some of the most significant surviving Chinese wallpapers in private and public ownership in the British Isles. Sumptuously illustrated, it shows how these wallpapers became a staple ingredient of high-end interiors.
This is the first volume in a welcome cooperation between The National Trust and Philip Wilson Publishers which, it is planned, will lead to a wider exposure to the public of some of the valuable and unique furnishings and valuables within the properties held by the NT. As usual, Philip Wilson Publishers have excelled with their production of this book on the wallpapers within National Trust properties. Up until now, there was just a slim National Trust brochure on this neglected subject. Now we have a proper book in which the illustration is matched by the scholarship.'