Cast Iron

ISBN-13: 9780747804932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 32 str.

Jacqueline Fearn

Opis

Cast iron has made a tentative comeback. Street improvement schemes often include Victorian-style litter bins, bollards and street signs which are, or look like, cast iron and numerous other items such as garden furniture and door porters are available. This book looks at the history of the material that made the Industrial Revolution possible and at some of the products we appreciate today not only for the imagination and craftsmanship with which they were produced but also because they reflect the style, vigour and confidence of the era.
About the author
This is Jacqueline Fearn's fifth book for Shire Publications. She is greatly intrigued by the Industrial Revolution and the manner in which the Victorians, particularly, exploited every opportunity offered by new technology to make an article to fill a need and then to sell it. She believes cast iron may be the most ingeniously and decoratively exploited material of the nineteenth century.
Other titles for Shire by this author are:
Domestic Bygones
Thatch and Thatching