Designer, Decorator, Dealer
Edición de la obra Daniel Cottier
| Autor | Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Max Donnelly, Andrew Montana, Suzanne Veldink |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Yale University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2021 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 256 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781913107185 |
| OCLC | 1242798133 |
| Número de Cutter | C559d |
"This book follows the phenomenal rise of Daniel Cottier (1838-91) from an apprentice coach painter in Glasgow to the founder of Cottier & Co., a fine and decorative arts business with branches on three continents. This gifted designer and brilliant art entrepreneur keenly spotted one of the key aspects of late 19th-century bourgeois culture-its focus on family, home, and church-and seized the artistic and commercial opportunities of the building and decorating boom that it brought about. Cottier was a proponent of Aestheticism, an international trend in the history of culture, art, and design from about 1860 to 1900: he understood the era's desire for beauty and realized the economic possibilities of its commoditization. Beyond biography, therefore, this book illuminates a significant event of late 19th-century cultural history- Aestheticism's cult of beauty meeting with the bourgeoisie's financial ability to possess it."--Jacket flap.