Landscape gardening as applied to home decoration,

Mode of access: Internet.

French furniture and decoration in the XVIIIth century,

Appendix: List of artists and workmen leaving Paris for St. Petersburg in 1716.--Spaendonck, G. van. Salons.--Oudry, J. B. Salons.--List of officials at the Gobelins.--Caffieri, J. Chronological list of his work for the crown.--Oeben and Reisener. Detailed agreement for the Bureau du roi.--Gouthière. Entries in the sale catalogue of the duke d'Aumont.--Duplessis. Entries in the livre-journal of Lazare Duvaux.--List of French cabinet-makers.

Art and decoration in Dennison's crepe and tissue paper. [Catalog]

Mode of access: Internet.

An essay on the Christmas decoration of churches : with an appendix on the decorations for Easter ... /

Date from Mansell, vol. 130, p. 410.

The English home, from Charles I. to George IV.; its architecture, decoration and garden design,

"List of subscribers" ([15] p.) inserted between p. [iv] and v.

Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration

Mode of access: Internet.

Early illustrated books; a history of the decoration and illustration of books in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Includes index.

The architecture, decoration and furniture of the royal palaces in Milan,

Mode of access: Internet.

Simplified Chinese lacquer techniques and Nanban style decoration on Luso-Asian objects from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries

The meeting of multiple cultures and their mutual influence during the Portuguese expansion in Asia led to the emergence of different types of fusion styles in objects commissioned by the settlers, merchants, and religious orders present in Portuguese India. The east-Asian lacquer coatings of modestly sized wooden objects of various types dating from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries have been analyzed as part of the research for a doctoral thesis that aims to establish their cultural and geographical attribution within the context of the Getty Conservation Institute’s lacquer research project. Among the objects were three seventeenthcentury lacquered trays from Portuguese museums and private collections that had previously been classified as Japanese Nanban, Chinese or Ryukyuan lacquers or even as Indo-Portuguese artifacts. The materials and techniques that were identified show close similarities with Chinese techniques mentioned in historic accounts — the only existing Ming Chinese Treatise on lacquering Xiushi lu and the eighteenth-century memoirs of the Jesuit priest d’Incarville. These nearly 400-year-old artifacts are among the first lacquered objects commissioned by Europeans and probably the first of Chinese origin. Their detailed technical study contributes to international lacquer research and complements existing knowledge and perceptions of the lacquering processes that were applied in response to an early European demand for exotic items.

Proceedings of the Interior Space in Other Places : An IDEA [Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association] Symposium [Edited Volume of Proceedings]

Conference curatorial outline The focus of this symposium was to question whether interior design is changing relative to local conditions, and the effect globalization has on the performance of regional, particularly Southern hemisphere identities. The intention being to understand how theory and practice is transposed to ‘distant lands’, and how ideas shift from one place to another. To this extent the symposium invited papers on the export, translation and adoption of theories and practices of interior design to differing climates, cultures, and landscapes. This process, sometimes referred to as a shift from ‘the centre to the margins’, seeks new perspectives on the adoption of European and US design ideas abroad, as well as their return to their place of origin. Papers were invited from a range of perspectives including the export of ideas/attitudes to interior spaces, history of interior spaces abroad, and the adoption of ideas/processes to new conditions. Paralleling this trafficking of ideas are broader observations about interior space that emerge through specificity of place. These include new and emerging directions and differences in our understanding of interiority; both real and virtual, and an ever-changing relationship to city, suburb and country. Keeping within the Symposium theme the intention was to examine other places, particularly on the margins of the discipline’s domain. Semantic slippage aside, there are a range of approaches that engage outside events and practices enabling a transdisciplinary practice that draws from other philosophical and theoretical frameworks. Moreover as the field expands and new territories are opened up, the virtual worlds of computer gaming, animations, and interactive environments, both rely on and produce new forms of expression. This raises questions about the extent such spaces adopt or translate existing theory and practice, that is the transposition from one area to another and their return to the discipline.