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Pattern Design: a Period Design Sourcebook

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Features hundred of magnificient period designs - from medieval to the 1950s - from the unique National Trust colllectionrnrn* With patterns from wallpaper, textiles, furniture, tiles and ceramics, this is an ideal sourcebook for all creative professionals and enthusiasts of beautiful design.rnrnThis book provides an authoritative, if necessarily brief, historical overview of the major art and design movements to be found in the wide variety of properties cared for by the National Trust. The narrative is broadly chronological, but interwoven with specific htemataic treatment of 'timeless'' approaches to the issues of design, such as the enduring appeal of the Gothic style, or the partiacularly British fascination with the Far East across centuries. Within each section, pattern design is presented as a continuum, with relevant examples selected from across all appropriate media; in so many eases, a pattern developed for one material, such as brocade, might easily be adapted for another use such as wallpaper.rnrnIn terms of the source material, the book celebrates the frequent cross-fertilisation of pattern design, demonstrationg how fine art and statuary often informed and inspired the applied arts. Issues of cultural shopliting" the wholesale borrowing of the motifs

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Call Number

741.6 EVA p

Publisher

London : National Trust Books., 2008

Collation

258 p.: ilus.; 23 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-905400-67-6

Classification

Graphic Design, Illustration Drawings

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Edition

Cet.1, 2008

Subject(s)

Design

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