The memory palace : a book of lost interiors
The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. One day, the houses will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will remain. In this dazzling work of imaginative re-construction, Edward Hollis takes us to the sites of five great spaces now lost to history and pieces together the fragments he finds there to re-create their vanished chambers.From Rome's palatine to the old Palace of Westmisnter and the Petit Trian
1 online resource (362 p.)
9781619023703, 1619023709
1162463723
Illustrations; INTRODUCTION; A Doll's House; ARCHITECTURE; Focus; Porphyrogenitos; Domus Aurea; Domus Augusti; Regia; Lupercal; FURNITURE; A Table for Games; A Chair; A Table; A Cloth; A Hall; A Palace; OBJECTS; A Cabinet of Curiosities; A Catalogue; A Cabinet; A Clock; A Bowl and a Horn; A Museum; DECOR; French Grey; An Enchanted Island; Appartement; Lever; Cabinet de la Chaise; The Last Boudoir ofMarie Antoinette; COMMODITIES; All that is SolidMelts into Air; A Great Exhibition; A Gilded Cage; Spending a Penny; A Model Cottage; A Crystal Palace; IMAGES; A Screen; A Curtain; A Box A HouseA Labyrinth; A Cloud; EPILOGUE; A Book; Notes; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index
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English