RUSSIAN FURNITURE by Cheneviere, Antoine ISBN 1851493557
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A study of Russian furniture manufactured during the 'Golden Age', ranging from 1780 to 1840. This visual history demonstrates the flamboyant styles and diversity of materials, designed to match the palaces and grandiose apartments that sprang up in Russia at the end of the 18th century.
Soon after her arrival in Russia in 1744 the future Catherine the Great lamented the pitiful scarcity of furniture in the Imperial palaces. Within less than a hundred years those palaces, and the grandiose apartments which sprang up alongside them in the burst of building activity that gripped Russia at the end of the eighteenth century, were filled with magnificent furniture, as befitted their sumptuous decor. Russia had enjoyed a cultural renaissance, in which the skills of decorative artists were nurtured as never before, and out of this ferment emerged an autonomous Russian style, distinguished by its exhilerating freedom of expression and ornamentation, its exceptional diversity of forms and materials, and the dazzling virtuosity of its craftsmanship. This remarkable period and the flamboyant style it engendered have only recently excited interest in the West; literature on this subject is not only scarce, but also largely written in Russian. Russian Furniture - the culmination of many years' research in the Soviet Union and the West - is therefore valuable as a comprehensive study in English of the development and evolution of Russian furnture styles during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Antoine Chenviere examines the period chronologically and highlights particulat artists such as David Roentgen, Heinrich Gambs and Andrei Voronikin.
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[edit] Title
RUSSIAN FURNITURE
[edit] Author
Cheneviere, Antoine
[edit] ISBN
1851493557
[edit] Published
31/10/2001
[edit] Publisher
Antique Collectors' Club
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
45 (GBP)
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