John Fowler - Prince of Decorators
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 Prince of Decorators
 
Author: Martin Wood
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
Year of publication: 2007
John Fowler was an interior decorator who set fashions and changed tastes. The English country house style, which he developed with Sibyl Colefax and Nancy Lancaster, his partners in the firm of Colefax & Fowler, has proved a source of continuing inspiration to decorators and home-owners on both sides of the Atlantic and indeed across the world. Today, a hundred years after his birth, his influence is almost as powerful as it was in the mid 20th century, when he was working on many of Britain's finest and most famous houses, including Uppark, Chequers and Buckingham Palace, as well as dozens of more modest projects. Fowler's style has been so widely imitated that it is easy to forget what an innovator he was. In the 1930s and 1940s his style was a breath of fresh country air, sweeping away heavy velvets and damasks in favour of crisp cotton chintzes, replacing glossy mahogany with painted Regency furnishings, elaborate porcelain and glitzy ormolu with modest pottery and painted tin. Even after the war, when he came to specialize in the decoration of architecturally important interiors, he continued to prefer 'humble elegance' and 'romantic disrepair' to pomposity.
 Product Condition:
 Copy in good condition. Dust jacket with traces of dust and signs of wear at the edges and corners. Lower corner of the front flap cut. Pages yellowed at the edges. Text in English. Book in good condition. 
ISBN Code: 0711227118
EAN: 9780711227118
Pages: 288
Format: Hardback with dust jacket
 Dimensions (cm):
 Height:  30
 Width:  24
 
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Text in English. With numerous black and white and color photographs.
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