Half a century before Owen Jones’s ‘Grammar of Ornament’ (1856), Freiherr zu Racknitz produced this survey of twenty-four different styles, some historical, some contemporary, the predictably exotic (Turkish, Mexican, ancient Egyptian) and the extravagantly so (Tahitian, Kamchatkan, Siberian). Racknitz, marshall of the court of Saxony and, by extension, his wonderful book, exemplify the German Enlightenment and what it was to be civilised in the late C18th. Some wonderful colour plates and black and white engravings.
A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture – Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leadi
£65.00
Edition:Hardback978160606624917/12/2019
