Java Style

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I ava Style is a photographic celebration of the architecture, interior design, furniture ¦ and lifestyles that make up Java's unique visual culture, and of the creative possibilities afforded by Java's rich stock of antiques and art objects. A five hundred year old mosque's pavilions, the linked colonnades of the palaces of Java's sultans, neoclassically styled verandas of a colonial administrator's villa, the cloistered courtyard, of an 18th-century Chinese mansion, public buildings that form part of the greatest flowering of art deco outside Europe; all these are the settings of Java Style.
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he landscape of the island of Java, in the Indonesian archipelago, is dominated by volcanoes and rice fields. The human landscape of this, the world's mosf: densely populated island, is equally thrilling to the eye, and no visitor can remain unaffected by the special history-drenched design sensibility that this book terms "Jáva Styie". , A highly refined aesthetic, a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

I ava Style is a photographic celebration of the architecture, interior design, furniture ¦ and lifestyles that make up Java's unique visual culture, and of the creative possibilities afforded by Java's rich stock of antiques and art objects. A five hundred year old mosque's pavilions, the linked colonnades of the palaces of Java's sultans, neoclassically styled verandas of a colonial administrator's villa, the cloistered courtyard, of an 18th-century Chinese mansion, public buildings that form part of the greatest flowering of art deco outside Europe; all these are the settings of Java Style.
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he landscape of the island of Java, in the Indonesian archipelago, is dominated by volcanoes and rice fields. The human landscape of this, the world's mosf: densely populated island, is equally thrilling to the eye, and no visitor can remain unaffected by the special history-drenched design sensibility that this book terms "Jáva Styie". , A highly refined aesthetic, a rich.history at .the crossroads of Asia, and the materials and sensual jaossibilities afforded by a tropical environment have all led to the creation of Java Style. A five hundred year old mosque's payilions, the-linked colonnades of the krMon, or palace, of Java's sultans, neoclassically styled verandas of a colonial administrator's villa, the cloistered courtyard of an 18th-century Chinese niansion, public buildings that form part of the ¦ greatest flowering of art deco outside Europe: all these' are the settings of Java Style. ¦ ¦.
This book is a'celebration of the architecture, interior design; furniture and lifestyles that make up Java's unique-visual culture, and of the creative possibilities afforded by Java's rich stock qf antiques and art objects. Vissza