
Moving Rooms
The Trade in Architectural Salvages (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Edición de la obra Moving Rooms
| Autor | John Harris |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Paul Mellon Centre BA, Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
| Fecha de publicación | September 28, 2007 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 240 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780300124200 |
| ISBN-10 | 0300124201 |
| OCLC | 71286640 |
| LCCN | 2006029075 |
| Número de Cutter | H314m |
"This book documents the break-up, sale, and re-use of salvages in Britain and America, where the fashion for so-called 'Period Rooms' became a mainstay of the transatlantic trade. Much appreciated by museum visitors, period rooms have become something of a scholarly embarrassment, as research reveals that many were assembled from a variety of sources. One American embraced the trade as no other - the larger-than-life William Randolph Hearst - who purchased tens of thousands of architectural salvages between 1900 and 1935"--Jacket.