Chinoiserie

By Dawn Jacobson

Book Overview

It was in the seventeenth century that myths of exotic Cathay began to be replaced by more definite knowledge of things Chinese, through the activities of English and Dutch traders. It was in the eighteenth century, however, that the taste for designs and architecture based on ideas of Chinese design - Chinoiserie - became highly fashionable in the French court, and in its many imitators throughout Europe.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714828831
• ISBN13: 9780714828831
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Phaidon Inc Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.7" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up