Design & The Decorative Arts: Tudor and Stuart Britain 1500-1714 (V&A's Design & the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900): Design and Decorative Arts, ... & the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900 S.) - Softcover

Michael Snodin; John Styles

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9781851774203: Design & The Decorative Arts: Tudor and Stuart Britain 1500-1714 (V&A's Design & the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900): Design and Decorative Arts, ... & the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900 S.)

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ISBN 10: 1851774203 ISBN 13: 9781851774203

Publisher: V & A Publications, 2004

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The V&A's bestselling Design and the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900 is now also available in three separate paperback volumes. This volume tells the story of design and the decorative arts in Britain from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth century. From the focus of international design lying in other European centres, this book follows the path of Britain becoming Europe's most successful commercial economy. British design and decorative art were no longer provincial and British designers and craftspeople began to succeed their most eminent European rivals. Lavishly illustrated and unmatched in its coverage, this book explores design and the decorative arts through the examining of the contemporary style, taste and vogue. It provides a unique, well-rounded study on design and the decorative arts in Tudor and Stuart Britain.

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Synopsis:

At the start of the sixteenth century, the great centres of European design and decorative art, as of wealth and power, lay to the south and to the east; it was beautiful things created in the workshops of Venice and Florence, Antwerp and Paris that were coveted in Britain, not those made in London or Edinburgh. Two hundred years later all this had changed. Britain was well on the way to becoming Europe's most successful commercial economy and British design and decorative art were no longer provincial. From furniture to fabrics, prints to pottery, British designers and craftspeople began to match their most eminent European rivals. Lavishly illustrated and unmatched in its coverage, this book explores design and the decorative arts from a number of points of view. It assesses their place in the wider history of Tudor and Stuart Britain. It examines style, the question of how things looked. It asks who led taste; who decided what was to be considered beautiful, fashionable and desirable. It looks at how fashionable things - from houses to clothing - were used. It asks what was new, examining new products and innovations in the ways they were made.

Together, the chapters provide an indispensable resource for the study of the visual culture of the Tudor and Stuart period.

About the Author:

Michael Snodin is Head of the Designs Section of the V&A's Word & Image Department. His publications include Sir William Chambers (V&A, 1996) and Carl and Karin Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style (co-author, V&A, 1997). John Styles is Head of Postgraduate Studies at the V&A, with particular responsibility for the V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design course. He has published widely on manufacturing, consumption and design in eighteenth-century England, and was historical advisor to the V&A's British Galleries team.

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