Moving rooms
By: John Harris
Publisher: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300124200
Subjects: Interior decoration; Period rooms -- Conservation and restoration; Decorative arts -- Collectors and collecting; Moving of buildings, bridges, etc; Salvage (Waste, etc.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-310) and index
Table of contents: title: Salvaging the interior : 1500-1820; title: Salvage and a more amateur antiquarianism; title: Continental imports and the Wardour Street trade; title: England and the French connection; title: Interiors and a new professionalism : 1850-1950; title: The growth of a transatlantic trade in rooms and salvages; title: The period room in European museums; title: North American museums and the English room; title: Into American houses go English rooms; title: William Randolph Hearst, the great accumulator; title: Check-list of British rooms and salvages exported to the USA