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Classical Principles for Modern Design: Lessons from Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman's The Decoration of Houses
Classical Principles for Modern Design Lessons from Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman's The Decoration of Houses
Author: Thomas Jayne
Interior designer and decorative arts historian Thomas Jayne takes on the redoubtable Edith Wharton and her co-author Ogden Codman, whose 1897 book The Decoration of Houses is acknowledged as the Bible of American interior design. Wharton and Codman advocated for classical simplicity and balance, replacing the excesses of the Gilded Age. In Jayn...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781580934978
ISBN-10: 1580934978
Publication Date: 1/9/2018
Pages: 240
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Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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