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Byggforlaget, Stockholm, 1997. Paperback with dust jacket, 50 pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with color photographs, watercolours and plans. Text by Catrine Arvidsson, photographs by Max Plunger, watercolours by Magnus Bard; essay by Kerstin Westerlund of the National Property Board; translated by Joan Tate.
In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Cream paper covers with mild shelf and edge wear. Faint square of sticker residue (about 2.5 cm) at top corner of inside front cover. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Cream pictorial dust jacket with black lettering, color photograph of the pavilion on front and watercolour view of Drottningholm Park by Cecilia Uhrstedt on back; front flap printed with UNESCO note and floor plan of the pavilion. Discolored patch about 5 x 4 cm at top corner of front panel from a price sticker; some soiling along bottom edge of back panel, spine and fore edge. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Illustrated account of the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm, the rococo chinoiserie pleasure palace built for Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden to designs by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (1763-69), part of the Drottningholm group added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1991. Commissioned by the National Property Board following the pavilion's restoration, completed in 1995. Includes a short history of chinoiserie in Sweden, an essay on the restoration, a color photographic tour of the pavilion and its surrounding buildings, and an illustrated narrative of life at the pavilion, from the wooden pavilion given to the queen as a birthday surprise in 1753 to the wardens of the 19th century, with watercolours by Magnus Bard. Also reproduces a 1779 survey map of Djurgarden and the pavilion. Joan Tate (1922-2000), the translator, rendered some 200 Scandinavian books into English, including works by Astrid Lindgren and Ingmar Bergman. Contents: Chinoiserie; An Alien Butterfly; The Chinese Pavilion Today; Daily Life at the Chinese Pavilion.