A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture - Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz\s Presentation and History of the T
This volume translates and examines a rare conspectus of architectural and decorative taste published at the very end of the eighteenth century.Baron Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's pioneering…
Specifikacia A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture - Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz\s Presentation and History of the T
This volume translates and examines a rare conspectus of architectural and decorative taste published at the very end of the eighteenth century.Baron Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzüglichsten V lker in Beziehung auf die innere Auszierung der Zimmer und auf die Baukunst) is little known today. Racknitz, a German aristocrat, traced an early global history of design and ornament through discussions of what he distinguished as twenty-four essential regional historical tastes. He included those of a diverse group of ancient classical civilizations, European nations and peoples, Eastern civilizations, and more exotic reaches of the world.This sensitive and informed