Magnificent French furniture, silver and works of art from the collection of M. Hubert de Givenchy on Saturday, 4 December, 1993 at 8 p.m. at the Metropole Palace Hotel

New furniture was the first consumer durable to be successfully diffused to a mass (middle- and working-class) market in Britain. This chapter charts how a small number of furnitur...

This chapter explores the furniture music of French composer Erik Satie (1866–1925). Satie's pieces of furniture music are each fundamentally based on a short musical fragment, to ...

This chapter introduces one of the most understudied communities of New Negro writers. Commencing in the 1920s, African American writer Georgia Douglas Johnson invited writers to h...

When in Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine of France in 1154 A.D., he became at once the reigning sovereign over a vast stretch of land extending across all of Englan...

Examines the development and modern concepts of hotel management — system, process and situational approaches. Describes the features of hospitality management related to the organ...

Palaces like the Aljafería and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at Córdoba, Kairouan and many other sites ...

The textbook discusses the forms and design features of various styles of furniture, design principles and techniques of architectural and artistic solutions, materials of modern f...