An Empire Style Furniture Set at Nedkovich House, Old Town Plovdiv

• Authors: Regina Raycheva
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper considers the interior and furnishing of a Revival Bulgarian house built in 1863. The aim of this paper is to present the architecture and to give a closer overview of a part of the furniture collection belonging to this house: the French Empire style furniture set in the South East drawing room of the upper floor. The aim is to perform the analysis of stylistic features as well as to make a hypothesis concerning the cabinet maker.

Keywords

FR

Revival townhouse; residential architecture; French Empire style; china display cabinet; tête-à-tête; armchair; guéridon

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Architecture and Urban Planning
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-54

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-02-03

Contributors

author

Regina Raycheva

• Associate Professor at the University of Forestry Address: 10, Kliment Ochridski Blvd., Sofia 1797, Bulgaria Phone/Fax: [phone]

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/aup-2015-0007