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Edith Wharton

The Decoration of Houses

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Introduction: Rooms may be decorated in two ways: by a superficial application of ornament totally independent of structure, or by means of those architectural features which are part of the organism of every house, inside as well as out. In the middle ages, when warfare and brigandage shaped the conditions of life, and men camped in their castles much as they did in their tents, it was natural that decorations should be portable, and that the naked walls of the mediaeval chamber should be hung with arras, while a ceil, or ceiling, of cloth stretched across the open timbers of its roof....... This early works is a fascinating and comprehensiv… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Lungwitz, A.
  • ISBN: 978-1-4446-3945-2
  • EAN: 9781444639452
  • Produktnummer: 4852221
  • Verlag: Hewlett Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 328 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.9 cm 439 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 439

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Edith Wharton (born 1862, died 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928, and 1930. She wrote about America's privileged classes from the inside, with humor and psychological insight.

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