The Importance Of Being Furnished
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The Importance Of Being Furnished
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Author : R. Tripp Evans
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-06-04
The Importance Of Being Furnished written by R. Tripp Evans and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-04 with House & Home categories.
Enter the private world of four New England bachelors, men who transformed their homes - now all public museums - into personal artistic statements. Exploring the lives of four bachelor designers, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home invites readers into the private worlds they created. Spanning the Gilded to the Jazz Age, these fascinating interiors not only reflect the intimate lives of their owners – men whose personal stories have, until now, remained in the shadows – but they serve as monuments to the Queer shaping of the American home as we know it today. Meet Charles Leonard Pendleton, (1846-1904), the reclusive gambler who built one of the greatest furniture collections of his age, all for a house ultimately built on sand. Explore the aristocratic interiors of renowned interior decorator Ogden Codman, Jr. (1863-1951), whose ancestral home served as a laboratory for his enormously successful 1897 manifesto, The Decoration of Houses, even as it transmitted his forebears’ vices. Join the literary salon of writer Charles H. Gibson, Jr. (1874-1954), who made his Boston home a monument to personal ambition and his own, once heralded beauty – all while transforming himself into a campy caricature of his own “Boston Brahmin” class. And last, fall under the spell of Henry Davis Sleeper (1878-1934), the nationally recognized decorator who created his fifty-room seaside masterpiece, Beauport, for the love of the man next door. Fully illustrated with color plates and period photographs, this book pays tribute to Oscar Wilde’s “gospel of beauty,” a cause these men promoted in a dazzling range of styles. By turns poignant, outrageous, and inspiring, the stories of these “surprisingly domestic bachelors” (as the press dubbed them) reveal the complicated depths beneath their homes’ brilliant surfaces.
On The Importance Of Being An Individual In Renaissance Italy
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Author : Douglas Biow
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-01-27
On The Importance Of Being An Individual In Renaissance Italy written by Douglas Biow and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-27 with History categories.
In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern period. Still, as he contends in this witty, reflective, and generously illustrated book, the category of the individual was important and highly complex for a variety of men in this particular time and place, for both those who belonged to the elite and those who aspired to be part of it. Biow explores the individual in light of early modern Italy's new patronage systems, educational programs, and work opportunities in the context of an increased investment in professionalization, the changing status of artisans and artists, and shifting attitudes about the ideology of work, fashion, and etiquette. He turns his attention to figures familiar (Benvenuto Cellini, Baldassare Castiglione, Niccolò Machiavelli, Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgio Vasari) and somewhat less so (the surgeon-physician Leonardo Fioravanti, the metallurgist Vannoccio Biringuccio). One could excel as an individual, he demonstrates, by possessing an indefinable nescio quid, by acquiring, theorizing, and putting into practice a distinct body of professional knowledge, or by displaying the exclusively male adornment of impressively designed facial hair. Focusing on these and other matters, he reveals how we significantly impoverish our understanding of the past if we dismiss the notion of the individual from our narratives of the Italian and the broader European Renaissance.
Independent Offices Appropriation Bill For 1945
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Independent Offices Appropriation Bill For 1945 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Executive departments categories.
English Explorers In The East 1738 1745
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Author : Rachel Finnegan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-06-17
English Explorers In The East 1738 1745 written by Rachel Finnegan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-17 with History categories.
In English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan examines the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other.
Reports From Commissioners
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
Reports From Commissioners written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with categories.
The Manufacturer And Builder
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Author : Peter Henri Van der Weyde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
The Manufacturer And Builder written by Peter Henri Van der Weyde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Building categories.
Billed in early issues as "a practical journal of industrial progress", this monthly covers a broad range of topics in engineering, manufacturing, mechanics, architecture, building, etc. Later issues say it is "devoted to the advancement and diffusion of practical knowledge."
First Report Of The Commissioners Appointed By His Majesty William Iv November 23d 1836
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Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission appointed to visit the Universities of Aberdeen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
First Report Of The Commissioners Appointed By His Majesty William Iv November 23d 1836 written by Great Britain. Royal Commission appointed to visit the Universities of Aberdeen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with categories.
Home Supplies Furnished By The Farm
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Author : Warren Clemmer Funk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
Home Supplies Furnished By The Farm written by Warren Clemmer Funk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with Agriculture categories.
The Importance Of Being Earnest
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-27
The Importance Of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-27 with categories.
Morning-room in Algernon's flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.
The Abridgment
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Author : United States. President
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
The Abridgment written by United States. President and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Executive departments categories.