Mittel Europa: Rediscovering the Style and Design of Central EuropeThe authors of the International Style Library turn their attention to the land east of the Danube as they travel through Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and the surrounding countryside to find in the architecture, interiors, and folk arts of the region a host of thriving design traditions accessible again after a long isolation.Full-color photographs. |
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18th-century architect architecture art nouveau artists Austria Baroque Baroque style Biedermeier Bohemia Budapest building built Café CAMERALE castle century chairs chandelier church countryside cubist Czech cubism Danhauser Danube decorated dining room DOORS SALZBURG DOORS Emperor facade farmhouse Fasz Flachgau frames Franz Grillparzer furnished furniture ghetto gilded GILLES DE CHABANEIX grand Gustav Klimt hall hangs Hapsburg Hoffmann designed Hungary interior Italian Josef Hoffmann Joseph Maria Olbrich Jugendstil kitchen Klimt Koloman Moser LEFT Leopoldskron living room marble Maria master bedroom ment Mittel Europa modern motifs Mountain Mucha's original Otto Wagner Palace paneling patterns PHOTOGRAPHS BY GILLES pieces porcelain portrait Prague Praun RIGHT Ringstrasse ROZENSZTROCH rustic Salzburg Schönbrunn Secession Secessionist sitting room SLESIN & STAFFORD Slovakia STAFFORD CLIFF staircase SUZANNE SLESIN Thonet tion top row town traditional Trieste ture tury upholstered Vienna Viennese village walls Wiener Werkstätte window wood
References to this book
When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and ... Anthony Alofsin No preview available - 2006 |