Biedermeier to Bauhaus

This volume traces the evolution of eclectic European style from their roots in the Renaissance through the early 20th century. The 265 beautiful color photographs by Barbara and RenT Stoeltie and the text by Sigrid Sangl (furniture and woodwork department, Bavarian National Museum) illustrate and describe rooms in private houses throughout Germany and Austria, many of which have not been previously photographed. Topics include the influence of the Renaissance, Baroque grandeur and Roccoco fantasies, the impact of Classical antiquity and the Biedermeier style, the search for a true German style in the 19th century and the quest for a consciously modern one, and the rural tradition. Oversize: 10.25x12.5<">. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Biedermeier to Bauhaus will delight anyone interested in interior design. Tracing the evolution of these and other eclectic European styles from their roots in the Renaissance through the early twentieth century, it reveals a creative decorative tradition that has been admired and imitated the world over.
Given access to private houses - cottages, palaces, town houses, artist's studios, and rural retreats throughout Germany and Austria - many of which have never been photographed before, author Sigrid Sangl presents gilded wood-paneled parlors and richly colored seventeenth-century textiles; exuberant Baroque stucco work; eighteenth-century Rococo fantasies from castles and summer palaces; the intense reds and bright blues of the Classical revival; Biedermeier living rooms with elegant ebonized tables and chairs; romantic neo-Gothic tracery; the ornamental curves of Jugendstil - the German counterpart of Art Nouveau - and the pure functionalism of the Bauhaus. Spanning the Baltic to the Alps and Dusseldorf to Dresden, these astonishingly varied and authentic interiors are seen as different strands of a complex but characteristic decorative heritage.
With an informative, accessible text and specially commissioned photographs by photographers Barbara and Rene Stoeltie, Biedermeier to Bauhaus is an unparalleled source book for contemporary interiors.

General

ISBN		9780810957084
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Non-Fiction
Publisher		Harry N Abrams Inc
Pages		191
List Price		$49.50
Author		Sangl, Sigrid Stoeltie, Barbara Stoeltie, Rene
Publication Date		04/01/2001
Release Status		Out of Stock Indefinitely
Format		Hardcover
Language		English
Measurements		Height: 12.25 Inches (US) Width: 10.25 Inches (US) Thickness: 1 Inches (US) Unit Weight: 3.15 Pounds (US)
Photographer		Stoeltie, Barbara Stoeltie, Rene