Title: Moving Rooms
Subtitle: The Trade in Architectural Salvages (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
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.
Subjects: Interior decoration, Art, decorative, Moving of buildings, bridges, etc., Salvage (waste, etc.), Period rooms, Conservation and restoration, Decorative arts, Collectors and collecting, Moving of buildings, bridges