Moving Rooms by John Harris

Moving Rooms by John Harris

Documents the break-up, sale and re-use of salvages in Britain and America, where the fashion for so-called 'Period Rooms' became a mainstay of the transatlantic trade.

"Harris pulls no punches in his exhaustive investigation into Continental architecture salvages and how they came to be period rooms in museums and private homes"—Jeanne Schinto, Maine Antique Digest -- Jeanne Schinto * Maine Antique Digest *

John Harris is Curator Emeritus of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is an architectural historian and the author of The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington and His Villa at Chiswick and Sir William Chambers, both published by Yale University Press.

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ISBN 13	9780300124200
ISBN 10	0300124201
Title	Moving Rooms
Author	John Harris
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2007-08-23
Number of pages	240
Prizes	Winner of William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History 2007
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