Cutlery - Trigt, Jan Van
From Gothic to Art Deco, the J. Hollander Collection
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Our eating culture is dramatically different from that of bygone ages. Eating french fries or hamburgers with plastic forks is a far cry from state dinners in the XVIIIth century with their two dozen courses.nThe Design Museum Ghent presents the history of cutlery in its various aspects, historical, functional, decorative, with approx. 1,000 pieces from a private collection, reputed the most important worldwide. Materials range from gold and silver to ivory and steel. Several full table settings will also be shown: guests are awaited from the renaissance, baroque, rococo, art nouveau and art deco periods.nThe publication (in English with a separate 16pp leaflet in Dutch listing all the exhibits) shows in about 500 full colour plates the highlights of the collection. The technical pages illustrate the various silver marks and blad markings.nnOnze hedendaagse eetcultuur verschilt grondig van die van onze voorouders. Hamburgers eten met plastic vorkjes is nu eenmaal niet te vergelijken met een 18de-eeuws galadin...
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2005Uitgever: Pandora Publishers300 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9053252231ISBN-13: 9789053252239Koop dit boek tweedehands
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The J. Hollander collection. The history of tableware and cutlery, illustrated with 600 colour plates and hunderds of silver marks. As new !! Synopsis : Our eating culture is dramatically different from that of bygone ages. Eating french fries or hamburgers with plastic forks is a far cry from state dinners in the XVIIIth century with their two dozen courses.The Design Museum Ghent presents the history of cutlery in its various aspects, historical, functional, decorative, with approx. 1,000 pieces from a...
