Author: HOPE, THOMAS (BRITISH PAINTER, ARCHITECT, AUTHOR, COLLECTOR, 1769-1831); WATKIN, DAVID (1941-), EDITOR; HEWAT-JABOOR, PHILIP, EDITOR
Title: Thomas Hope: Regency designer / David Watkin and Philip Hewat-Jaboor, editors
Description: New Haven. Conn.; London: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. Design. and Culture by the Yale University Press 2008. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; xxiv. 526 p.: ill. (chiefly col.). facsims. geneal. table. ports.; 32 cm. Notes; Accompanies an exhibitions held at Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. Design. and Culture. New York. 17 July - 16 Nov. 2008; and touring to the Victoria and Albert Museum. London. 21 March - 22 June 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 506-519) and index. Contents; Hope family tree and chronology / Daniella Ben-Arie -- European wealth and Ottoman travel / Philip Mansel -- The reform of taste in London: Hope's house in Duchess Street / David Watkin -- Critic and historian : Hope's writings on architecture. furniture and interior decoration / David Watkin -- Thomas Hope's furniture: 'a delightful and varied significance of shape and embellishment' / Frances Collard -- Fashion à l'antique: Thomas Hope and Regency dress / Aileen Ribeiro -- Thomas Hope's metalwork for Duchess Street: 'character. pleasing outline and appropriate meaning' / Martin Chapman -- The past as a foreign country: Thomas Hope's collection of antiquities / Ian Jenkins -- Thomas Hope's modern sculptures: 'a zealous and liberal patronage of its contemporary profession' / David Bindman -- Thomas Hope's contemporary picture collection / Jeannie Chapel -- The old master collection of John. Thomas and Henry Philip Hope / Jeannie Chapel -- The Hope family in London: collecting and patronage / Daniella Ben-Arie -- The reform of taste in the country: the Deepdene / David Watkin -- The tragic mask of Anastasius-Selim: a new introduction to Hope's novel / Jerry Nolan -- Hope's philosophical excursus / Roger Scruton -- The afterlife of Hope: designers. collectors. historians / Frances Collard and David Watkin -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Appendix. Pictures inherited by Thomas Hope and Henry Thomas Hope / Jeannie Chapel. Summary; The son of the wealthiest merchant bankers in Europe. Thomas Hope (1769-1831) was a major catalyst in the arts of Regency England. At the age of 18. he embarked on a Grand Tour to the Continent and started to assemble the remarkable art collection that he later installed in his Duchess Street house in central London. Hope's remodeling and interior decoration of that house fostered what became known as the Regency. This book is the most comprehensive study to date of Thomas Hope. focusing on his multifaceted role as designer and patron. The contributors examine his wide-ranging contribution to the arts as well as his extensive writings. Richly illustrated with new photographs. the volume presents a vast array of paintings. furniture. sculpture. and works of art. many of which have never been published before. Subjects; Hope. Thomas (British painter. architect. author. collector. 1769-1831) - Exhibitions. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. Design. and Culture (New York. N.Y.) - Exhibitions. Victoria and Albert Museum (London. England) - Exhibitions. Art - Collectors and collecting - Great Britain. Art patronage - Great Britain - History - 19th century. Designers. British - 18th century. Designers. British - 19th century. Art - Collectors and collecting - England - History - 19th century. Interior decoration - England - London - History - 19th century. Decoration and ornament - England - London - Regency style. Art patronage - England - London - History - 19th century. Art - Collectors and collecting - England - London. Decoration and ornament - Regency style. Art patrons - England - London. Designers - England - London. Art. Regency - England - London. Furniture design. REGENCY DESIGN - 19TH CENTURY - BRITISH DESIGN HISTORY. Collectors and collecting - Great Britain - 19th century. Individual designers; Interior design. DESIGN / Decorative Arts. ART / European. ART / Collections. Catalogs. Exhibitions / General.Weight in Kg appr.:

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