Research Catalog

Title

Thomas Jeckyll : architect and designer, 1827-1881 / Susan Weber Soros, Catherine Arbuthnott.

Author

Weber, Susan, 1954-

Publication

New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, by Yale University Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Jeckyll, Thomas, 1827-1881
• Arbuthnott, Catherine
• Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture

Description

300 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

"Thomas Jeckyll ranks among the least understood and most tragic Aesthetic Movement figures in England. This illustrated book explores his innovative and brilliant designs in architecture, furniture, metalwork, and interiors and restores him to his deserved place among the architect/designers of his time. It is the definitive study of Jeckyll's life and work and presents his notable buildings and diverse examples of his decorative arts." "Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott examine Jeckyll's most important architectural commissions, among them the extravagant five-story Cambridge town house known as Rance's Folly. They also discuss the interiors he designed - some of the most captivating and evocative Aesthetic Movement rooms of his time - which included the famous Peacock Room created for shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland, and later decorated by James McNeill Whistler. The book also considers Jeckyll's remarkable furniture and metalwork designs, for which he is best-known today, including the Four Seasons gates, which were exhibited and highly praised at the Exhibition Universelle, Paris, in 1867 and the Weltaustellung, Vienna, in 1873."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Jeckyll, Thomas, 1827-1881 > Criticism and interpretation
• Architects > England
• Architecture > England > 19th century
• Architect-designed decorative arts > England
• Aesthetic movement (Art) > England

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, July 17-Oct. 19, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-282) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rediscovering Thomas Jeckyll -- Thomas Jeckyll (1827-1881): A forgotten life -- The architectural career of Thomas Jeckyll -- The eclectic restorer: The church restorations of Thomas Jeckyll -- Furniture and interior design -- A union of art and industry: Metalwork designs -- Chronology -- Checklist of the exhibition.

ISBN

0300099223 (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003009307

OCLC

• 52121408
• SCSB-12769359

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library