Moving Rooms
Subtitle: The Trade in Architectural Salvages (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA; Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Published: September 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780300124200
Subjects: Antiques & Collectables; Interior design; Architecture; Art & Art Instruction; British Isles; USA; Folk & Outsider Art; Art / General; Historic Preservation; Collectors and collecting; Conservation and restoration; Decorative arts; Interior decoration; Period rooms
Description: "This book documents the break-up, sale, and re-use of salvages in Britain and America, where the fashion for so-called 'Period Rooms' became a mainstay of the transatlantic trade. Much appreciated by museum visitors, period rooms have become something of a scholarly embarrassment, as research reveals that many were assembled from a variety of sources. One American embraced the trade as no other - the larger-than-life William Randolph Hearst - who purchased tens of thousands of architectural salvages between 1900 and 1935"--Jacket.