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Bachelor Quarters: Spaces of Japonisme in Nineteenth-century Paris

Christopher Reed

Christopher Reed

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Japonisme occupies two very different places in the history of art. On one hand, it is the original primitivism. More than just the repertoire of exotic settings and motifs offered by earlier forms of Orientalism, Japanese art challenged...

George Nelson: Humanism, Morality, and the Japanese Aesthetic

Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand

Dr. Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand teaches design history, theory and studio at Syracuse University where she is a Professor in the School of Design. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Mid-Century Modern Interiors : The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...While Ray and Charles Eames may be the best-known designers from the mid-century modern period, many people might not know the name George Nelson. This is because in his position of design director at Herman Miller Furniture Company...

Primordial Shadows

Stephen Kite

Stephen Kite is Professor of Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK. His previous publications include Building Ruskin’s Italy: Watching Architecture (2012), Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye (2009), and An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson (2005, co-authored with Sarah Menin). He is an Editor of the journal Architectural Research Quarterly. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shadow-Makers : A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Primordial dwelling Consider the primordial shadows of architecture’s medieval night, when darkness was a ruling force relieved only by the hearth, the candle and the oil lamp. Defining this ‘primordial presence’ of shadow will enable...