In a Weekend: Stripping and Finishing
Jane Davies
Whether it's renovating an old piece of furniture or giving fixtures and fittings a new lease of life, this book sets out to demonstrate all the tricks of the trade. A comprehensive techniques section offers directions and professional advice, providing easy to follow illustrations for preparing, stripping, filing, sanding and refinishing every surface, from cane to ceramic, through metal and...
DIY Books
British Campaign Furniture: Elegance Under Canvas 1740-1914
The first-ever book on the suites of travelling furniture used by British soldiers over one-and-a-half centuries. For the travelling British soldier, campaign furniture - chairs, desks, and other items, brought the comfort and civility of home to life under canvas. Made to be carried on the march and assembled on site, campaign furniture reached an aesthetic apex in 18th- and 19th-century England.
Furniture Books
Chinese Classical Furniture
Grace Wu Bruce
Chinese hardwood furniture of the Ming dynasty is known the world over for its classical beauty and ingenious design. This introduction to Ming furniture opens with a short history of Chinese furniture styles, discusses and illustrated the many varieties of chairs, tables, beds, cabinets, and stands included among Ming pieces, and uses woodblock prints of the time to explore how the pieces were...
Furniture Books
Chinese Furniture
Craig Clunas
This volume covers the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of Chinese furniture, one of the largest and most important outside China. It includes unique masterpieces of lacquered furniture attributable to the workshops of the Imperial Court. It also contains a representative group of hardwood furniture of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), which has had such a strong influence on contemporary...
Furniture Books
|
