Peter Pearson's Decorative Dublin is a feast for the eye, celebrating the city's decorative surfaces in ironwork, brickwork, stone, glass, plaster, its fanlights, doors and windows.The city is full of decorative things whose main function is to delight. Ancient, Georgian, Victorian and modern features are all here. At certain periods everything, even the most practical and mundane coal-hole cover or boot scraper, was decorated, leaving a rich heritage on buildings, pavements, walls, roofs, in gardens and interiors.
The book also includes the fascinating stories of crafts and craftworkers.
- ISBN10 086278784X
- ISBN13 9780862787844
- Publish Date 5 November 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 February 2022
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint O'Brien Press Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English