Download or read book Decorative Iron and Metalwork written by R. Goodwin-Smith and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent study by expert on age-old craft provides a spirited overview. 140 illustrations include grilles, doors, and gates; stair railings and balustrades; small handles, hinges, door-knockers, and keyhole plates; Elizabethan-era firedogs; weather vanes; much more, many never catalogued before. Rich source of inspiration, royalty-free graphics, information.
Download or read book Wrought Iron in Architecture written by Gerald Kenneth Geerlings and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work documents the many uses and ingenious adaptations of wrought iron in architecture, with numerous examples from the fourteenth century through the twentieth centuries. Gerald Geerlings' extensive introduction details the properties of wrought iron; its textures; tools and terms of the trade; architectural applications, design, motifs, and ornamentation; economic considerations; finishing; and more. The author illuminates the history of wrought iron with carefully researched surveys of the craft in several countries, including Italy, Spain, England, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, and America. Nearly 400 illustrations, including 73 clear drawings and 307 sharply focused photographs of gates, railings, screens, lighting fixtures, bannisters, balconies, door knockers, and other objects, chronicle the evolution of wrought iron as both a structural and decorative material. Special attention is devoted to early-twentieth-century developments and applications of this highly useful metal.
Download or read book Spanish Decorative Ironwork written by Luis Labarta and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVOver 300 outstanding illustrations, excellently reproduced from an extremely rare publication, depict ornate altar screens, doors, chandeliers, balcony railings, candelabra, tombstone crosses, pulpits, gates, more. Captions. /div
Download or read book Classic Wrought Ironwork Patterns and Designs written by Tunstall Small and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Decorative French Ironwork Designs written by Louis Blanc and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Ornamental Iron written by Winslow Bros. Company and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classic French Wrought Iron written by Raymond Lecoq and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work on traditional French architectural ironwork designs traces the successive styles of decorative French ironwork over its 700-year development.
Download or read book Samuel Yellin Metalworker written by Jack Andrews and published by Skipjack Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic essay and documentation about the master artist-blacksmith Samuel Yellin representing the culmination of 19th-century wrought iron design and fabrication.
Download or read book Metals in America s Historic Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art Deco Ornamental Ironwork written by Henri Martinie and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 200 beautiful examples of wrought iron gates, screens, balustrades, and other architectural adornments.
Download or read book Wrought Iron and Its Decorative Use written by Maxwell Ayrton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb treasury presents an informative survey of wrought iron throughout England with illustrations of gates, railings, screens, and other elaborately rendered works. 239 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Decorative Antique Ironwork written by Muse Le Secq des Tournelles and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1968-01-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 4,500 objects on 415 plates illustrate a remarkable variety of decorative ironwork from Roman times to the 19th century. Drawn from a rare 1924 source by a noted scholar and collector, it runs the gamut from door knockers and grilles to jewelry and religious symbols.
Download or read book Hand forging and Wrought iron Ornamental Work written by Thomas Francis Googerty and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decorative Ironwork written by The Countryside Agency and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted from the Blacksmithing Series from COSIRA (Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas), Ã1953.
Download or read book Decorative Ironwork of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists, illustrators, architectural and art historians, restorers, dealers, collectors--anyone interested in historical ironwork--will welcome this magnificent treasury of decorative designs produced between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Over 400 illustrations on 86 plates, reprinted from a rare nineteenth-century French volume of copperplate engravings, reveal a remarkable variety of decorative and utilitarian objects. Focusing primarily on German Gothic ironwork designs that embellished palaces, cathedrals, castles, houses, and other structures, the plates depict hinges ornamented with mythical sea creatures and dragons, door knockers decorated with female figures and human heads, keyhole plates wreathed in foliage, chests reinforced with iron bands displaying elaborate artwork, intricately laced metalwork on screens and grilles, elaborately designed keys, finials, candle stands, and a host of other architectural and ornamental elements. Notes to the plates identify the objects and provide, when available, a source and date for each. A splendid record of the inspired decorative flourishes of the past, these beautifully detailed plates will also serve as a lavish source of inspiration for today's designers. Dover (1996) republication of the plates from "Serrurerie, ou les Ouvrages en Fer Forgedu Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance, " published by Librairie Tross, Paris, 1870.
Download or read book Traditional Ironwork Designs written by Josef Feller and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Metals in America s Historic Buildings written by Margot Gayle and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promotes an awareness of metals in America's buildings and monuments, and makes recommendations for the preservation and repair of such metals. Intended for owners, architects, and building managers who are responsible for the preservation and maintenance of America's architectural heritage. When metal building components need rehabilitation or maintenance, info. on proper preservation techniques for each metal and its alloys has not been available. This sourcebook on historic architectural metals is a reference on metals used in architecture; how they are used, how to identify them, and when to replace them. Photos
