Chinoiseries | 
| Authors: Bernd H. Dams, Andrew Zega
Creator: Hubert De Givenchy
Publisher: Rizzoli
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 39536
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 164
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 9.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0847830462
Dewey Decimal Number: 729
EAN: 9780847830466
ASIN: 0847830462
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
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Product Description
Trained as both architects and historians, Andrew Zega and Bernd H. Dams are skilled artists known for their expert restitutions of historic buildings, rendered in a realistic watercolor technique that has become their trademark. Originally published as a limited-edition collector’s item that sold for $1,100, this affordable reprinted edition presents fifty charming images, the results of more than a decade of study of historic European and American architecture and garden ornament. Thirty-six of the works presented here delve into the past, reconstructing exceptional historical structures from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century with a predominately French style. The remaining are the authors’ original designs, beautifully detailed works inspired by these exotic and whimsical structures. Hubert de Givenchy, in his preface to Chinoiseries, describes these images as "precious documents [that] retrace an epoque when taste, extravagance, and a sense of fantasy were an essential part of the way in which parks and gardens were embellished, by perfectly inscribing them in nature, then furnishing them with dreams."
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Chinoiseries So Chic! May 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Chinoiseries This book is full of so many architectual chinoiseries that I never knew existed. One wants to remove the print pages from the book for framing. I stayed transfixed on the illustrations of each page and it is as if I were transplanted into a chic fantasy world. The style and the colors are awesome. I found it difficult to read about each particular structure as my eyes kept being diverted to the illustrations. I had some reservations about ordering this book as I did not need another coffee table book; however, the quality that is found among the pages makes this a must-see for the artist in all of us.
Absolutely beautiful! May 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you're into Chinoserie at all, this is a beautiful addition to your design library- that is, if you can refrain from cutting up the book to hang the pages on the wall. I couldn't, and now I have a beautiful graphic collection of framed panels from this book over my living room sofa. I'm buying a second copy of the book just so I can keep one to read. The text accompanying each structure is great reading- I especially loved seeing Marie Anoinette's merry-go-round from Versailles.
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