Author : Charles Boyce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1628738405
In a comprehensive listing of entries from "Aalto, Hugo Alvar Henrik" to "Zui Weng Yi," Boyce illuminates readers about furniture styles, construction details, terminology, furniture designers, and design movements throughout history and throughout the world. Styles covered include European-inspired classical, baroque, pop, rococo, and modernist. This extensive guide will be helpful for furniture enthusiasts, historians, and those interested in redecorating their homes.
Author : F. Lewis Hinckley
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Antiques
ISBN : 9780517011706
Authentic classification of European and American designs for professionals and connoisseurs.
Author : Antique Collectors' Club
Publisher : Antique Collectors Club Dist
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Includes biographies of designers and information on design tools.
Author : Geoffrey W. Beard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A reference work on furniture makers active in England between 1660 and 1840. It lists makers in alphabetical order, recording biographical details, commissions, and information about signed or documented pieces, together with full supporting references.
Author : Christopher Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
A record of marked items made by London furniture makers between 1700 and 1840. The survey contains illustrations supported by background notes on the makers, together with an introduction which examines the reasons why certain firms employed labels, name straps, or engraved brass tablets.
Author : Adam Bowett
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 9780955657672
Bowett charts the species, sources, and history of the woods used in British furniture making from medieval times to the twentieth century. The main dictionary section of the book has 460 entries that cover 477 species of hardwoods and softwoods and detail the history of each wood, describe its uses, and provide cross references to other woods. Extensively illustrated with examples of historic furniture, this book also includes an introductory survey of the historic timber trade and several appendices, including over 160 illustrated wood samples from the Economic Botany collection at Kew Gardens. The layout and accompanying photographs make this a valuable and accessible read that will interest furniture and antique enthusiasts, collectors, restorers, curators, and botanists, among others.
Author : John Morley
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Design History
ISBN : 9780500019481
A history of furniture. John Morely documents the aesthetics of furniture, its social and cultural context, the sequence of styles - from Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman through Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and onwards - and the individual touches of craftsmen or designers used to give it character.
Author : Edith Gaines
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 9780801587924
Author : John Gloag
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000776123
Originally published in 1952 but enlarged and revised in 1969, this dictionary became a standard authoritative work of reference. It contains 2,612 entries and over 1,000 illustrations, reproduced from contemporary sources and from drawings by Ronald Escott, Marcelle Barton and Maureen Stafford. The work is divided into 6 sections: the first and second concern the description and design of furniture, the third contains the entries, the fourth gives a list of furniture makers in Britain and North America, section five records books and periodicals on furniture and design and the concluding section sets out in tabular form the periods with the materials used, and types of craftsmen employed from 1100 to 1950.
Author : Albert Sack
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Rev. ed. of: The new fine points of furniture.1993.
