Russian furniture : the golden age, 1780-1840 / Antoine Chenevière ; research adviser, Emanuel Ducamp.

Main entry:

Chenevière, Antoine.

Title & Author:

Russian furniture : the golden age, 1780-1840 / Antoine Chenevière ; research adviser, Emanuel Ducamp.

Publication:

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.

Description:

312 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-308) and index.

Summary:

"Soon after her arrival in Russia in 1744 the future Catherine the Great lamented the pitiful scarcity of furniture in the imperial palaces. Within less than a hundred years those palaces, and the grandiose apartments which sprang up alongside them in the burst of building activity that gripped Russia at the end of the eighteenth century, were filled with magnificent furniture, as befitted their sumptuous decor. Russia had enjoyed a cultural renaissance, in which the skills of decorative artists were nurtured as never before, and out of this ferment emerged an autonomous Russian style, distinguished by its exhilarating freedom of expression and ornamentation, its exceptional diversity of forms and materials, and the dazzling virtuosity of its craftsmanship"--Dust jacket flap.

ISBN:

0297794418
9780297794417

Subject:

Furniture Soviet Union History.
Meubles URSS Histoire.
Furniture
Furniture Russia History
Meubles Russie.
Soviet Union
Russian furniture, 1780-1840

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 46570
Call No.: ID:89-B5875
Status: Available

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