Книга: Exotic Taste: Orientalist Interiors

Exuberant Chinese-inspired drawing rooms, Persian-style boudoirs, bulbous Mogul domes, and Turkish smoking rooms were once the rage in avant-garde circles and are undergoing a resurgence in popularity today as the global economy brings attention to the styles of the Far East, India, and the Islamic world. Emmanuelle Gaillard and Marc Walters lavish new book traces the Asian sources of this fashion, and its transformation in late 19th- and early 20th-century Western settings. Illustrated with extraordinary vintage and contemporary interior photography, fabrics, wallpapers, patterns, decorative objects, and costumes, this volume tours the houses of writers, thinkers, business tycoons, princesses, and even the Russian empress Catherine the Great. "Exotic Taste "is a rich treat for anyone drawn to the fantastic, elaborate style of Orientalism. Praise for "Exotic Taste: ""Beginning in the 18th century, European tastemakers, chafing under the constraints of classicism, turned to the...