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Restaurants and Dining Rooms
According to urban academic myth, the first restaurants emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. From the very beginning in the elegant salons of the latter days of the Ancien Régime, the design of restaurants has been closely related to ideas of how food should be presented and how it may be consumed in public. The appearance and atmosphere created by restaurant owners reflects culturally embedded ideals of comfort, sociability and the good life. As a product of the modern metropolis, the restaurant encapsulates and illustrates the profound change in how its patrons viewed themselves as individuals, how they used their cities and how they met friends or business partners over a meal. ...
The Dining-room
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The Dining-Room
Reprint of the original, first published in 1878.
The Dining-Room
Excerpt from The Dining-Room This little book is not intended for people who can afford to employ skilled decorators, nor yet for those who can give costly entertainments. It merely contains a few practical suggestions for inexperienced housekeepers of small income, who do not wish to make limited means an excuse for disorder and ugliness. It treats of the family dining-room as a place on which care and thought rather than money must be expended in order to produce even moderate comfort. There is no special reference made to dinner parties, the author agreeing with Thackeray, that "the dinner at home ought to be the centre of the whole system of dinner-giving. About the Publisher Forgotten B...
The Dining Room
Design and decorating tips
Dining Rooms
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Kitchens and Dining Rooms
Rooms designed by leading cooks, hostesses and designers as places to be used as well as admired.
Dining Areas
Inspirational ideas are combined with practical information and cost-saving hints to show people how to make a personal statement within the home, and how to achieve style on a budget.
Bungalow Basics
In the early 20th century, bungalows represented the hight of efficiency and convenience for middle class homeowners. Fortunatly the old fashioned dining room underwent a transformation when translated to this new, modern setting. It became a living space that was as stylish as it was functional.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Dining Rooms
Furnished with high-backed chairs in a room of their own or tucked into a corner of the living room, Wright's dining areas represent some of his most perfectly conceived interior spaces. Frank Lloyd Wright's Dining Rooms pictures more than two dozen of his best designs and traces the changes in his own way of thinking about how people should dine. The Wright-at-a-Glance series showcases the work of one of the world's best-known architects. Comprising twelve books in all, this series offers an overview of Wright's life, buildings, and designs.
