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Turn-Of-The-Century Doors, Windows and Decorative Millwork: The Mulliner Catalog of 1893
ISBN: 9780486285146 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late nineteenth century, the Mulliner Box & Planing Company of Quincy, Illinois, provided its customers with an abundantly illustrated catalog displaying an immense and varied supply of interior and exterior millwork elements. This unabridged republication of that now-rare document offers unparalleled insight into the style and appearance of an extensive variety of decorative woodwork items that provided finishing touches to houses, cottages, churches, and offices in days gone by.
Included is an enormous array of material from window frames and sashes to church pulpits and pew ends.... In the late nineteenth century, the Mulliner Box & Planing Company of Quincy, Illinois, provided its customers with an abundantly illustrated catalog ...
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75,83 |
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Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern Francevolume 24
ISBN: 9780520213654 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers'...
Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise ...
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168,75 |
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50s TV Lamps
ISBN: 9780764306013 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early days of television, people attempted to protect themselves from the new machines with bright talismans--creative lamps that provided back light that was believed to protect the eyes. These lamps took on fantastic forms, the most popular among them being panthers and other animals like Siamese cats. They came in any number of forms, though, and sometimes doubled as vases or planters. Herein nearly 400 photos explore the many forms of TV lamps, from a barnyard full of horses, roosters, ducks, and swans, to all manner of conveyances like boats, wagons, and cars, and an international...
In the early days of television, people attempted to protect themselves from the new machines with bright talismans--creative lamps that provided back...
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117,56 |
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Rattan Furniture
ISBN: 9780764307706 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rattan stalks have been bent into furniture forms in the tropics for nearly a century. Design changes have provided variations from fancy items with bamboo before 1920, to streamlined, Deco-inspired forms of the 1940s, and practical, mass-produced styles in the 1960s and beyond. Today, each rattan style is recognized for its distinctive contribution to casual living spaces, indoors and out. In this book, over 400 color photographs of rattan furniture, period upholstery fabrics, and related art works are described in detail to present an inspiring variety of furnishings for every room in the...
Rattan stalks have been bent into furniture forms in the tropics for nearly a century. Design changes have provided variations from fancy items with b...
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189,15 |
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Knoll Furniture: 1938-1960
ISBN: 9780764322105 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1940s and 1950s, Knoll Furniture became symbolic of the modern design movement. This book catalogs furniture produced by the Knoll Furniture Company of New York during its first two exciting decades. Over 270 illustrations present forms by such influential designers as Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima, Jens Risom, Ralph Rapson, and others. An easy-to-use identification guide includes production dates and designer attribution. Original catalog photographs and many from the Knoll Museum Archive, a company history, designer biographies, and a revised price...
In the 1940s and 1950s, Knoll Furniture became symbolic of the modern design movement. This book catalogs furniture produced by the Knoll Furniture Co...
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186,14 |
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The Book of Shaker Furniture
ISBN: 9780870232756 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A contribution to the study necessary to understand the place of this small but distinct group of artefacts in the context of the 19th century. The book provides a set of photographs and measured drawings of Shaker furniture for both study and reproduction.
A contribution to the study necessary to understand the place of this small but distinct group of artefacts in the context of the 19th century. The bo...
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228,06 |
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Measured Drawings of 18th Century American Furniture
ISBN: 9780936399461 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oversized for easy reference. Fifty-four plates of Handberg's favorite pieces of period American furniture, based on museum and private special collections, including a mahogany tall case clock, cherry desk, continuous arm Windsor chair, and gate-leg dining table.
Oversized for easy reference. Fifty-four plates of Handberg's favorite pieces of period American furniture, based on museum and private special collec...
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75,83 |
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The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies
ISBN: 9781558491373 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining comfort, simplicity and craftsmanship, Windsor chairs have long been prized by collectors. Introduced from England in the early 1700s, the Windsor style took hold in America first as seating for the well-to-do and later as the favourite chair of the general population. Included in the Windsor family are stools, tables, settees, high chairs, cradles and candle stands, but the greatest variety is found in the chairs, which range from comb-back to bow-back to step-down versions. Their makers took advantage of the natural properties of different woods for particular components of the...
Combining comfort, simplicity and craftsmanship, Windsor chairs have long been prized by collectors. Introduced from England in the early 1700s, the W...
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242,90 |
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Country and Folk Antiques
ISBN: 9780887408281 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to Don Raycraft, this is the book he was looking for in 1965. He couldn't find it, so, thirty years later, he and Carol wrote it. With photos gathered over the span of one year and from Maine to California, they have gathered wonderful examples of country and folk antiques that are available to collectors. Illustrated with over 540 color photographs, the book is informative and fun, and will move the reader to a new level of awareness about the vast treasure trove of antiques still waiting to be discovered. A price guide is included.
According to Don Raycraft, this is the book he was looking for in 1965. He couldn't find it, so, thirty years later, he and Carol wrote it. With photo...
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143,13 |
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Contemporary Studio Case Furniture: The Inside Story
ISBN: 9780932900777 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boxes, cabinets, chests, cupboards, desks, and sideboards this volume showcases one-of-a-kind and limited-edition pieces designed and constructed by today s emerging and established furniture makers and artists. This exhibition catalog illustrates the many ways in which thirty-seven contemporary artists approach case furniture, a traditional form that is being constantly defined and redefined. This simultaneously utilitarian and aesthetic art form permits artists, from traditional to avant-garde, to express their own visions.
Essayists and guest curators for the exhibition, Thomas Loeser... Boxes, cabinets, chests, cupboards, desks, and sideboards this volume showcases one-of-a-kind and limited-edition pieces designed and constructed by t...
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97,10 |
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Cooperage; A Treatise on Modern Shop Practice and Methods; From the Tree to the Finished Article
ISBN: 9781408644607 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage volume contains a comprehensive guide to cooperage, being an accessible treatise on proper workshop practice and methods. Written in simple, plain language and full of helpful illustrations and invaluable tips, this handbook is ideal for he novice woodworker, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: Timber, Enemies of Wood, Forest Fires, Saws, Knives, Production of Slack Cooperage Stock, Harvesting Raw Material, Slack Stave Manufacture, Slack Barrel Hoop Manufacture, Modern Shop Management, Useful Rules and Information, etc....
This vintage volume contains a comprehensive guide to cooperage, being an accessible treatise on proper workshop practice and methods. Written in simp...
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183,02 |
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Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware
ISBN: 9780936399201 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book includes careful advice on the selection and drying of wood and provides accurate scale drawings of such sought-after Shaker items as apothecary cupboard, sewing stand, revolving stool, sewing accessories, workstand, high chair, cupboard chest, candlestands, stool dippers, chest of drawers, trestle table footstool, chair finials, work counter, drop leaf table, settee, knobs and pulls, tailoresses' counter, washstands, wall clock, oval boxes and carriers, sewing desk, chairs, lap desk, and more.
This book includes careful advice on the selection and drying of wood and provides accurate scale drawings of such sought-after Shaker items as apothe...
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75,83 |
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Working Drawings of Colonial Furniture
ISBN: 9780982532959 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Active in the early 20th-century Manual Arts education movement, Bryant sought out period furniture, found in local Maine towns, of "singular form and beauty."
Active in the early 20th-century Manual Arts education movement, Bryant sought out period furniture, found in local Maine towns, of "singular form and...
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51,08 |
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Shaker Furniture - The Craftsmanship of an American Communal Sect
ISBN: 9781445510989 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are repub...
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144,70 |
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Shaker Furniture - The Craftsmanship Of An American Communal Sect
ISBN: 9781445514826 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are repub...
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204,30 |
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English and American Furniture
ISBN: 9780983578499 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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217,13 |
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Furniture Masterpieces Of Duncan Phyfe
ISBN: 9781446083697 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the furniture of Duncan Phyfe, one of the most popular cabinet designers of the nineteenth-century. Complete with historical information and descriptions of notable pieces, this illustrated guide will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in antique furniture, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: The End of Knickerbocker New York, Duncan Phyfe and the Artistic Influences of His Time, The Distinctive Quality of Duncan Phyfe, Chairs and Benches, Sofas, Tables, Miscellaneous...
This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the furniture of Duncan Phyfe, one of the most popular cabinet designers of the nineteenth-century. Com...
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119,15 |
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Sheraton Furniture Designs - From the Cabinet-Maker's and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book 1791-94
ISBN: 9781447435013 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text contains a collection of Sheraton furniture designs, presented as beautifully detailed illustrations. A fantastic display of some of the most renowned and exquisite furniture to have ever been created, this text is a must-have for those with an interest in the work of Thomas Sheraton and constitutes a great addition to collections of historical furniture literature. Some of the examples contained within this book include: 'Cylinder Desk and Bookcase', 'A Secretary and Bookcase', 'A Gentleman's Secretary', 'A Library Case', 'Pediments for Bookcases', 'A Library Table', 'Kidney...
This text contains a collection of Sheraton furniture designs, presented as beautifully detailed illustrations. A fantastic display of some of the mos...
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123,42 |
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Catalogue of English Furniture and Woodwork - Vol. II. Late Tudor and Early Stuart
ISBN: 9781447435310 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second volume of a four-volume series covering English woodwork and furniture from the Gothic and Early Tudor periods - all the way to the Georgian period, this book comprises a comprehensive catalogue of antique English furniture and woodwork. Including information on, and descriptions of each piece mentioned, this text will be of great value to those interested in the beautiful furniture that came out of England over the ages, and makes a great addition to collections of historical furniture. The chapters of this book include: 'Furniture', 'Bedsteads and Cradles', 'Chairs', 'Upholstered...
The second volume of a four-volume series covering English woodwork and furniture from the Gothic and Early Tudor periods - all the way to the Georgia...
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123,42 |
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The Furniture Designs of Thomas Sheraton
ISBN: 9781447435532 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text contains a beautifully illustrated catalogue of some of Thomas Sheraton's most impressive and masterful furniture designs, and constitutes a part of 'The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book' series. Complete with an informative preface and a veritable cornucopia of detailed examples of furniture, this text will be of considerable value to those interested in Sheraton's work and antique furniture in general. It would also be of value to designers looking for inspiration for their work, and is not to be missed by the discerning collectors of such literature. We are proud to...
This text contains a beautifully illustrated catalogue of some of Thomas Sheraton's most impressive and masterful furniture designs, and constitutes a...
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140,44 |