A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture

Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations

By: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz, Simon Swynfen Jervis (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 December 2019 | Edition Number 1

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This volume translates and examines a rare conspectus of architectural and decorative taste published at the very end of the eighteenth century.

Baron Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzuglichsten Volker in Beziehung auf die innere Auszierung der Zimmer und auf die Baukunst) is little known today. Racknitz, a German aristocrat, traced an early global history of design and ornament through discussions of what he distinguished as twenty-four essential regional historical tastes. He included those of a diverse group of ancient classical civilizations, European nations and peoples, Eastern civilizations, and more exotic reaches of the world.

This sensitive and informed translation by Simon Swynfen Jervis also includes reproductions of the original color plates and essays on Racknitz’s biography, his publication, and the deeper German Enlightenment context, making this an essential volume for studying eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture, decorative arts, and garden design.

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"Ambitious, handsomely illustrated...A fantastic book that should find its way into every properly scholarly collection"-Wolf Burchard, Art Newspaper

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