Chinese Domestic Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings

Author: Gustav Ecke
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486141225
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Reprint of rare volume offers detailed review of hardwood furniture from early Shang to late Ming. For collector, craftsman. 161 illustrations.

Chinese Furniture

Author: Karen Mazurkewich
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462906923
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chinese Furniture is a survey of these collectibles--from the very best hardwood pieces featured to standard softwood specimens still available on the Asian market. This antique furniture book presents an overview of carving styles, wood types, regional variations, class distinctions and restoration techniques. It includes detailed chapters on various types of wooden furniture cover chairs, stools and benches, tables and desks, beds, cabinets and bookshelves, doors and screens and household accessories. With this renewed interest in antique furniture, a forgery market has emerged. Thousands of factories in southern China are churning out brand new or refurbished furniture and passing them off as Chinese antiques. Chinese Furniture unearths these forgeries and serves as an indispensable reference guide for collectors of antique wood furniture.

Chinese Furniture

Author: Xiaoming Zhang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521186463
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
This book provides an accessible, illustrated introduction to the long history, production techniques and cultural significance of Chinese furniture.

Chinese Household Furniture

Author: George Norbert Kates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Tansu

Author: Ty Heineken
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834843544
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Tansu, the unique cabinetry of Japan, springs from a rich folk-art tradition. This book is lavishly illustrated with 27 full-color plates and over 260 monochrome photographs of spectacular chests and elegant details. It is divided into two parts, the first on history and the second on techniques. It also includes an invaluable guide to purchasing and conserving tansu.

Classic Chinese Furniture

Author: Shixiang Wang
Publisher: Joint Publishing, Company, Limited (Hong Kong)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description

In the Arts and Crafts Style

Author: Barbara Mayer
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811802027
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
Each chapter of this book examines a different facet of this aesthetic, beginning with its European origins and proceeding to American classics, including California's Mission style. The book highlights the work of such influential designers as Gustav Stickley, L & J.G. Stickley, Charles Voysey, Greene & Greene, George Ohr, Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Charles Rohlfs, among others, and features Arts and Crafts standards, such as the Morris chair, the Stickley settle, the Tiffany lamp, and the Fulper bowl, all displayed in a variety of contemporary interiors.

To Make As Perfectly As Possible

Author: Roubo (M., André Jacob)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985077754
Category : Cabinetwork
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
The first English-language translation of the French 18th-century classic text on woodworking.

Encyclopedia of Wood Joints

Author: Wolfram Graubner
Publisher: Taunton
ISBN: 9781561580040
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
Shows and describes splicing, oblique, corner, cross, and edge joints used in Japanese wooden construction

Sophie's World

Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599

Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.