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: 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 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.

Making Authentic Shaker Furniture

Author: John G. Shea
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486138976
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Over 250 photographs and measured drawings for over 80 classic Shaker designs: cradle, dry sink, trestle table, lap desk, rocking chair, many more. 262 halftones. 140 black-and-white line illustrations.

Chinese Household Furniture

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

Book Description

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.

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

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.

Ill Feelings

Author: Alice Hattrick
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558614133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
An intrepid, galvanizing meditation on illness, disability, feminism, and what it means to be alive. In 1995 Alice’s mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother’s and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later. Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary nonfiction to uncover both of their case histories, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. Their cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin’s lost love Rose la Touche, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. Suffused with a generative, transcendent rage, Alice Hattrick’s genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness.