{"product_id":"chinoiseries-9780847830466","title":"Chinoiseries","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrained as both architects and historians  Andrew Zega and Bernd H. Dams are skilled artists known for their expert restitutions of historic buildings  rendered in a realistic watercolor technique that has become their trademark. Originally published as a limited-edition collectors item that sold for $1 100  this affordable reprinted edition presents fifty charming images  the results of more than a decade of study of historic European and American architecture and garden ornament. Thirty-six of the works presented here delve into the past  reconstructing exceptional historical structures from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century with a predominately French style. The remaining are the authors original designs  beautifully detailed works inspired by these exotic and whimsical structures. Hubert de Givenchy  in his preface to Chinoiseries  describes these images as \"precious documents that retrace an poque when taste  extravagance  and a sense of fantasy were an essential part of the way in which parks and gardens were embellished  by perfectly inscribing them in nature  then furnishing them with dreams.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665798684725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0847830462","price":164.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780847830466.jpg?v=1782407739","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/chinoiseries-9780847830466","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}