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Eastlake's book Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details posited that furniture and decor in people's homes should be made by hand or machine workers who took personal pride in their work. Manufacturers in the United States used the drawings and ideas in the book to create mass-produced Eastlake Style or Cottage ...
The Best of the Doors (1997) The Doors Collection – Collector's Edition (1999) VH1 Storytellers – The Doors: A Celebration (2001) The Doors – 30 Years Commemorative Edition (2001) No One Here Gets Out Alive (2001) Soundstage Performances (2002) The Doors of the 21st Century: L.A. Woman Live (2003) The Doors Collector's Edition – (3 DVD ...
For a quarter of a century, the furniture designs of the rocaille style was dominant, particularly under the influence of Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (1695-1750), the Italian-born architect who became royal architect and designer of Louis XV, and the ornament designer Nicolas Pineau (1684-1754). Under their influence, straight lines disappeared ...
Elf on the Shelf today . In what is likely one of the most successful self-publishing stories of all time, more than 17.5 million Scout Elves have been adopted around the world since their debut.
The region surrounding the Chesapeake Bay on America's east coast was settled primarily by British settlers. The standard vernacular house built by the colonists in this region between the first settlement in 1607 and the end of British rule in 1776 followed the I-plan format , had either interior or exterior gable chimneys, and was either ...
For those of us that live in old houses—from before the 1950s—there are design quirks that act as conversation starters. Even though we’re scratching our heads at some old home features ...
Their book, "The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition," tells the story of Santa's scout elves, who make themselves at home and fly back to the North Pole each night.
Art Deco gained currency as a broadly applied stylistic label in 1968 when historian Bevis Hillier published the first major academic book on it, Art Deco of the 20s and 30s. [3] He noted that the term was already being used by art dealers, and cites The Times (2 November 1966) and an essay named Les Arts Déco in Elle magazine (November 1967 ...