Traditional Ironwork Designs

Author: Josef Feller
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486134431
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
From an exceptional collection of the finest examples of German ironwork comes this rich source of royalty-free images for artists and craftspeople. More than 270 illustrations depict a broad variety of magnificent ironworks from the city of Düsseldorf, with finely rendered examples of the craft ranging from elaborate castle gates to ornate weather vanes. Balustrades, screens, balcony railings, and other decorative ironworks abound in this handsome compilation. Derived from a rare, turn-of-the-century portfolio, these splendid designs offer uncommon glimpses of a rich array of motifs that are sure to inspire and delight designers, architecture enthusiasts, antique lovers, and devotees of vintage ironwork.

Classic Wrought Ironwork Patterns and Designs

Author: Tunstall Small
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486152502
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Forty plates of meticulously rendered hinges, grilles, railings, latches, door knockers, and more — selected from English chapels, tombs, castles, and other structures — span more than 600 years of metalworking history.

Treasury of Ironwork Designs

Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486271269
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Elaborately wrought designs for gates, fences, finials, banisters, window grilles, bedsteads, cathedral screens, other architectural and decorative appointments, Gothic to Art Nouveau — meticulously rendered in black-and-white drawings reprinted from vintage publications.

1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs

Author: Denonvilliers Co.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155781
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
Invaluable source of information for art historians, craftspeople, dealers, collectors, and preservationists includes hundreds of finely detailed illustrations of garden seats, candelabras, moldings, gates, balcony grilles, vases, crosses, funerary ornaments and monuments, finials, doorknobs and many other ornamental features. A rich source of inspiration and royalty-free graphics, as well, for commercial artists and designers.

Treasury of Ironwork Designs

Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486319792
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Superb examples of the ironworker's art — elaborately wrought designs for gates, fences, finials, banisters, window grilles, signs, marquees, cathedral screens, and a host of other architectural and decorative appointments, from Gothic style to Art Nouveau — meticulously rendered in fine black-and-white drawings reprinted from rare European and American books and periodicals.

Ornamental Ironwork

Author: Michael Southworth
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
This book on the history and technology of architectural ironwork aims to impart an understanding of the myriad of forms and uses to which ironwork has been put. In addition, the book describes techniques for restoring and preserving ornamental ironwork. Also shown are many of the traditional patterns and design motifs which can be used as tracings for contemporary design.

Decorative Ironwork

Author: Margarete Baur-Heinhold
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764301537
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Artists have made gates and fences in wrought iron over the centuries in ornamental designs shown here in hundreds of photos. The restoration of wrought iron is discussed and ironwork examples are organized according to their uses, such as gratings that protect doors and windows, entries and gates from Europe in the Middle Ages, artistic creations of the 17th and 18th centuries, and works of our own day.

Decorative Ironwork

Author: The Countryside Agency
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607657295
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
In succession with Blacksmith’s Craft and Wrought Ironwork, Decorative Ironwork is a facsimile edition of the original 1963 instruction manual for intermediate to advanced blacksmiths. Apply all previous techniques learned to forge and form the designs of 7 decorative iron grilles through detailed, step-by-step instruction and photography. Once completed and mastered, this book will arm you with vital skills that are applicable to the entire field of decorative ironwork.

Decorative French Ironwork Designs

Author: Louis Blanc
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486135780
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Over 1,500 attractive black-and-white illustrations — drawn from balconies, gates, grilles, stair railings, and elsewhere — incorporate floral and foliate designs, human and animal figures, musical motifs, heraldic crests, mythological figures, geometrics, more.

Samuel Yellin, Metalworker

Author: Jack Andrews
Publisher: Skipjack Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781879535176
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
A photographic essay and documentation about the master artist-blacksmith Samuel Yellin representing the culmination of 19th-century wrought iron design and fabrication.