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Architecture and Panelling: The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor

Autor Bruno Pons
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 dec 2001
A scholarly account of the origins of Waddesdon Manor and a catalogue of the celebrated panelling, describing and analysing the 385 individual elements.Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bought the Waddesdon Estate in 1874 but building did not begin until 1877. In the intervening years, the Parisian architect Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur produced designs on an enormous scale for a French Renaissance-style chateau. The end result, completed in 1889, was a smaller house which became the epitome of grandeur and elegance and which represents several decisive landmarks in the history of architecture and decoration in France.This volume opens with an account of the Destailleur family, Parisian architects of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, whose designs are now to be found in the Küntstbibliothek, Berlin and in the Archives Nationales in France.The second chapter studies the use of old French panelling from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries; the dismantling and re-use of it in the eighteenth century drawn from Versailles; the trade and export of it at this time; its destruction during the Revolution; the market and organisation of sales under the Empire; the return of interest under Louis-Philippe; the market under the Second Empire, the Rothschild family's interest in it and in particular Baron Ferdinand's.The catalogue of the house's panelling follows, comprising more than half the book. There are 335 entries, each one illustrated and including a description, measurements, location and provenance, as well as a commentary which discusses various aspects of each panel in relation to its fellows, period and history. Each group of panels is accompanied by a fully documented section on the houses for which they were carved - houses which were celebrated in the 18th century for the quality of their decoration.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780856674372
ISBN-10: 0856674370
Pagini: 704
Ilustrații: 22 colour, 650 mono illustrations and 20 diagrams
Dimensiuni: 223 x 303 x 49 mm
Greutate: 3.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Philip Wilson Publishers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Bruno Pons trained as an art historian at the university of Strasbourg, specialising in the history of French and German Architecture and Decoration of the late 17th and 18th centuries. He has worked as museum curator at the Musee de la Medicine and has been instrumental in the creation of a national institute of art. He is also a physician specialising in Endocrinology.

Cuprins

ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionRothschild Family Tree and NoteReferences and AbbreviationsThe ArchitectureThe PanellingThe CatalogueList of work of Gabriel-Hippolyte DestailleurPhotographic acknowledgementsIndex