Interiors Fireplaces & Furniture of the Italian Renaissance (1927, Hardcover)

Description: New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Co. 1927.Second Printing, 4to, pp. xiii, 82, 31cm. Clean buckram boards lettering in darker blue on the front and spine, lightly bumped along the edges. In original green DJ with blue design & lettering that matches the design on the boards, wrapped in mylar to protect, unclipped, showing the original $7.50 price on the front flyleaf. Endpapers are clean but tones, hinges firm. 13 pages of text followed by 82 pages of b/w photos that clearly show the design elements of the Italian renaissance. "The quality of Italian Renaissance interiors in affording adequate backgrounds is one of the most essentially important things for us to recognize. In the simpler compositions, the quiet surfaces of plain, light walls, in rooms with high vaulted or beamed ceilings, provided an ideal background for richly wrought furniture, not too much of it and carefully placed, or an admirable foil to stress the contrast of small areas of rich carved or coloured decoration. In the interiors where the fixed features were more elaborate and chromatically gorgeous, good judgement in placing and discretion in the amount of movable appointments used were still conspicuous characteristics, and the furniture of the period possessed the rare quality of almost universal adaptability, so that it looked equally well in either ornate or simple environment."

Price: 40 USD

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