Moving Rooms
Details:
- Author(s) Harris, John
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2007
- Pages 320pp; illus
- Publisher Yale University Press for Paul Mellon Centre
- Place Published New Haven CT
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the 'salvage' of and trade in period rooms, usually taken from distinguished houses, especially country houses. Essentially a cultural study but sheds light on the specialist businesses involved such as Edwards & Sons (of Regents Street) Ltd, C Pratt Son & Sons (sic), T Crowther & Son, C J Charles, etc. Chapters include: 'Salvaging the interior, 1500-1820'; 'Continental imports and the Wardour Street trade'; 'The growth of the transatlantic trade in rooms and salvage'; etc