An ideal resource for anyone designing or re-creating period rooms or studying historical aesthetics, Mirrors looks at the ever-changing forms and uses of mirrors as major elements and points of emphasis in domestic interiors in the West. With a glimpse of their antecedents in classical antiquity and western Asia, the book traces a path from Louis XIV's Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and the royal and noble interiors that emulated it to mirrors in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and New World interiors and high-chic applications in twentieth- and twenty-first-century rooms. Mirror frames and furniture incorporating mirrors are also considered. Product details Format Hardback | 144 pages Dimensions 213 x 211 x 18mm | 630g Publication date 21 Jun 2012 Publisher WW Norton & Co Publication City/Country New York, United States Language English Illustrations note 150 full-color photographs ISBN10 0393705749 ISBN13 9780393705744
