Owen Jones Design, Ornament, Architecture and Theory in an Age in Transition

Hrvol Flores, Carol A.

ISBN 10: 0847828042 / ISBN 13: 9780847828043

Published by Rizzoli, New York, 2006

About this Item

First edition. Folio. 275 pp. Linen binding. Color illustrations. Thick glossy paper. Owen Jones was the innovative total designer in the nineteenth century that Frank Lloyd Wright was in the twentieth. He elevated British taste through education and by improving the design and manufacture of furniture, textiles, wallpaper, carpets, and other products. He transformed the thinking about architecture and decorative arts by introducing the psychology of perception. The author, Carol A. Hrvol Flores, PhD. is an architecture historian specializing in eighteenth through twentieth century British and American architecture. New in new dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Owen Jones Design, Ornament, Architecture and Theory in an Age in Transition
• Publisher: Rizzoli, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847828042
• ISBN 13: 9780847828043
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Jones, Owne
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Owen Jones directly influenced such luminaries as William Morris & John Ruskin, but he remains under-published until now. This title will be of interest to a wide audience from graphic and interior designers to architects, artists and curators. Jones' floral and romantic aesthetic is found throughout the contemporary arts today. This book takes a luxurious look of the work and life of Owen Jones, a luminary of Victorian Age architecture and design. It explores Jones's ideas and their relationship to those of other seminal figures of the time, including: Christopher Dresser, William Morris, A. W. N. Pugin and John Ruskin, among others. An author and architect, Jones was extremely active throughout his career as a book designer, interior decorator, tile, silk, furniture, and carpet designer - all of which will be lavishly presented in this book.

About the Author

Carol A. Hrvol Flores is associate professor in the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She has been director of that university's London Centre, and was visiting scholar at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and is currently program chair of the Nineteenth-Century Association. Widely recognized as a leading authority on Owen Jones, she has contributed articles on him to over thirty international publications.