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Article: Golden-age style: James Yorke praises a comprehensive, richly illustrated survey of Danish neo-classical furniture that ranges from royal thrones to the sofa-sideboards of the middle classes.(Book Review)
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The Dream of a Golden Age: Danish Neo-Classical Furniture 1790-1850 Mirjam Gelfer-Jorgensen Rhodos, Copenhagen, 84 [pounds sterling] ISBN 87 7245 898 4
This scholarly, lavishly illustrated book is the English translation of the Danish original, published in 2002. It covers the sixty years in Denmark that followed the French Revolution and its main topics are the Danish furniture trade and the various permutations of Le Style Empire. Danish artists and designers by and large remained loyal to the neoclassical idea: whenever we think of their furniture we tend to conjure up images of chairs and stools with exuberantly turned legs and uprights, often designed by ...
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