At a time when the cost price too often prevails over the notion of quality and when work is measured in terms of income, it seemed essential to us to rediscover this reference work where passion touches every page. Because, beyond the multiple information, clear and precise, that this magnificent highly illustrated dictionary provides, the author makes us benefit from his great experience and his perfect taste. Indeed, if Deville speaks to us at length about velvets, satins, muslins, woolen and printed fabrics, if he describes very precisely the origin and the different types of furniture, he also describes to us what a antechamber, a ballroom, a boudoir, a young man’s room, a young lady’s room, the vestibule, or even the smoking room...

• Isbn
• Ean 9782847902556
• Author Jules Deville
• Editor Bibliothèque des Introuvables
• Language fr_CH