Mirrors reflections of style /
Phipps, Paula
Mirrors reflections of style / [Book] : Paula Phipps. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012. - 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm.
An ideal resource for anyone designing or re-creating period rooms or studying historical aesthetics, Mirrors looks at the ever-changing forms and uses of mirrors as major elements and points of emphasis in domestic interiors in the West. With a glimpse of their antecedents in classical antiquity and western Asia, the book traces a path from Louis XIV's Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and the royal and noble interiors that emulated it to mirrors in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and New World interiors and high-chic applications in twentieth- and twenty-first-century rooms. Mirror frames and furniture incorporating mirrors are also considered. .
All.
0393705749 (hardcover) 9780393705744 (hardcover)
Mirrors in interior decoration.
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Mirrors reflections of style / [Book] : Paula Phipps. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012. - 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm.
An ideal resource for anyone designing or re-creating period rooms or studying historical aesthetics, Mirrors looks at the ever-changing forms and uses of mirrors as major elements and points of emphasis in domestic interiors in the West. With a glimpse of their antecedents in classical antiquity and western Asia, the book traces a path from Louis XIV's Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and the royal and noble interiors that emulated it to mirrors in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and New World interiors and high-chic applications in twentieth- and twenty-first-century rooms. Mirror frames and furniture incorporating mirrors are also considered. .
All.
0393705749 (hardcover) 9780393705744 (hardcover)
Mirrors in interior decoration.
747 .9