The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home by R. Tripp Evans Hard

Description: The Importance of Being Furnished by R. Tripp Evans Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Exploring the fascinating lives of four gay contemporaries, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home traces the advent of professional interior decoration in America against the backdrop of the homes these men created for themselves. Publisher Description Exploring the fascinating lives of four gay contemporaries, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home traces the advent of professional interior decoration in America against the backdrop of the homes these men created for themselves. All now public museums, these fascinating sites not only reflect the intimate lives of their owners, but also serve as monuments to the Queer shaping of the American home as we know it today. Readers will encounter Charles Leonard Pendleton, (1846-1904), one of the greatest furniture collectors of his age and the first to create the "period room" in an American museum (a recreation, in fact, of his own home); Ogden Codman Jr. (1863-1951), whose successful 1897 manifesto, The Decoration of Houses, co-authored with novelist Edith Wharton, summoned his familys 18th century Massachusetts home – and the ancestral ghosts it contained; Charles Hammond Gibson. Jr. (1874-1954), whose domestic embodiment of the elite "Boston Brahmin" evolved into a camp persona that shocked this very milieu; and Henry Davis Sleeper (1878-1934) who established his national design reputation through Beauport, the eccentric home he created for himself, and as tribute to the man he loved. Fully illustrated with color plates and period photographs, this book pays tribute to Oscar Wildes "gospel of beauty," a cause these men promoted in a dazzling range of designs. Readers will feel theyve stepped across these once-private thresholds as guests – and as witnesses to the birth of the contemporary American interior. Author Biography R. Tripp Evans is an award-winning historian of American art and design. He is a frequent public lecturer, professor of the history of art at Wheaton College, and serves as a collections consultant to historic house museums.In his more recent work, Evans has focused on the contributions gay men have made to the development of American style. His biography of the American painter Grant Wood considers the roles that Woods sexuality and family life played in his art, and the complicated way his work--particularly, his iconic painting American Gothic (1930)--became a powerful vehicle for nationalist expression. Grant Wood: A Life won the National Award for Arts Writing. Details ISBN 1538173956 ISBN-13 9781538173954 Title The Importance of Being Furnished Author R. Tripp Evans Format Hardcover Year 2024 Pages 224 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield GE_Item_ID:160368305; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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