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    By Antoine Cheneviere et al.
    London   Weidenfeld & Nicolson
    11.5" by 10.5" 312pp.
    A lovely first edition copy of Antoine Cheneviere's groundbreaking work on Russian furniture in the 'Golden Age', copiously illustrated with numerous photographs specially commissioned in the Soviet Union and never before seen in the West.
    By Antoine Cheneviere et al.

    1988 Russian Furniture The Golden Age 1780-1840

    London   Weidenfeld & Nicolson
    11.5" by 10.5" 312pp.
    A lovely first edition copy of Antoine Cheneviere's groundbreaking work on Russian furniture in the 'Golden Age', copiously illustrated with numerous photographs specially commissioned in the Soviet Union and never before seen in the West.
    £95.00
    : 3kgs / : 613M11
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    Description

    An Important Work, Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

    Written by the notable antique dealer Antoine Cheneviere, detailing Russia's 'cultural renaissance' at the end of the eighteenth century, from which emerged an autonomous Russian style noted for its lavish ornamentation and the 'dazzling virtuosity of its craftsmanship'. Translated by Anna Borisovna Bely and Marilyn Caron-Delion, and edited by Barbara Mellor and Sarah Sears. Complete with over three hundred and thirty five photographs in colour and black and white, visually demonstrating the skill of the skill of the gifted Russian craftsmen and presenting a 'lavish portrait of the 'Golden Age' of Russian decorative art. Complete with original unclipped dustwrapper.

    Condition

    In a black cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, lovely. Very faint marking to rear board. Pictorial endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Dustwrapper, very smart. Closed tear to front joint of wrap. Slight creasing to upper extremity of rear flyleaf.

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