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Book The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture

Download or read book The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture written by Herbert Cescinsky and published by . This book was released on 1913* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gentle Art of Faking Furniture

Download or read book Gentle Art of Faking Furniture written by Herbert Cescinsky and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert B 1875 Cescinsky
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014247025
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture written by Herbert B 1875 Cescinsky and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Gentle Art of Faking

Download or read book The Gentle Art of Faking written by Riccardo Nobili and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary counterfeiter; he must be studied amid his proper surroundings, and with the correct local colouring, so to speak, and his critic may perchance find some slight modicum of excuse for him. Beside him stand the Imitator, from whom the faker often originates, the tempter who turns the clever imitator into a faker, and the middleman who lures on the unwary collector with plausible tales. "It is not the object of this volume to study the Faker by himself, but to trace his career through the ages in his appropriate surroundings, and compare the methods adopted by him at various periods of history, so far as they may be obtained." -Preface

Book The Gentle Art of Faking

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  • Author : Riccardo Nobili
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2023-10-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book The Gentle Art of Faking written by Riccardo Nobili and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gentle Art of Faking" by Riccardo Nobili. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Wild Things

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  • Author : Judy Attfield
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-08-20
  • ISBN : 1350070726
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Wild Things written by Judy Attfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object's “lives”. Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. Defining designed things as “things with attitude” differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted. Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to 'clutter', the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. Beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment.

Book Conservation of Furniture

Download or read book Conservation of Furniture written by Shayne Rivers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory with practice to show the principles which govern interaction between wooden objects, the environmental and conservation treatments and the factors which need to be taken into account to arrive at acceptable solutions to conservation problems. The practical knowledge and experience of a team of conservators active in the field are bought together with theoretical and reference material from diverse sources and unified within a systematic framework. Specialist conservators from related disciplines cover diverse materials often incorporated into furniture.

Book A Short Dictionary of Furniture

Download or read book A Short Dictionary of Furniture written by John Gloag and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1952 but enlarged and revised in 1969, this dictionary became a standard authoritative work of reference. It contains 2,612 entries and over 1,000 illustrations, reproduced from contemporary sources and from drawings by Ronald Escott, Marcelle Barton and Maureen Stafford. The work is divided into 6 sections: the first and second concern the description and design of furniture, the third contains the entries, the fourth gives a list of furniture makers in Britain and North America, section five records books and periodicals on furniture and design and the concluding section sets out in tabular form the periods with the materials used, and types of craftsmen employed from 1100 to 1950.

Book A Cultural History of Furniture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Download or read book A Cultural History of Furniture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance written by Erin J. Campbell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages were marked by dramatic social, economic, political, and religious changes. Diverse regional and local conditions, and varied social classes - including peasant, artisan, merchant, clergy, nobility, and rulers - resulted in differing needs for furniture. The social settings for furniture included official and private residences both grand and humble, churches and monasteries, and civic institutions, including places of governance and learning, such as municipal halls, guild halls, and colleges. This volume explores how furniture contributed to the social fabric within these varied spaces. The chronological range of this volume extends from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the early Renaissance, a period which exhibited a wide array of types, styles, and motifs, including Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance. Rural and regional styles of furniture are also considered, as well as techniques of furniture manufacture. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.

Book Design History

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  • Author : Hazel Conway
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2006-08-21
  • ISBN : 1134887140
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Design History written by Hazel Conway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties. No background knowledge of design history, art or architecture is assumed.

Book Fraud  Fakery and False Business

Download or read book Fraud Fakery and False Business written by Abigail Harrison Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1922, Adolphe Shrager having made his fortune during the First World War, approached the London dealer Basil Dighton for advice on purchasing antique furniture. Dighton sold him about five hundred items but shortly afterwards Shrager discovered that one of his 'collector's pieces' was judged to be a fake and grossly over-priced, and he sued. The trial, held in early 1923, became a cause celebre, but it can be viewed as a case study of a much wider set of social and cultural concerns: the fact that Shrager lost both the first trial and the appeal, despite demonstrating on numerous occasions that he had a clear case against Dighton, raises questions of race, prejudice and class, where the establishment closed ranks against Shrager, the nouveau riche Jew and alleged war profiteer. This book - the first on the Shrager Dighton case - is the result of the author's original archival research.

Book The Meriden Britannia Silver plate Treasury

Download or read book The Meriden Britannia Silver plate Treasury written by Meriden Britannia Company and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Sheraton s Classical Revival Furniture Designs

Download or read book Thomas Sheraton s Classical Revival Furniture Designs written by Thomas Sheraton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegant 18th-century style book that was immediately successful in England, Russia, America, and British India. Complete coverage of Sheraton's most important designs: clock cases, commodes, drawing tables, library steps, chairs, other items. 98 plates.

Book Fake

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  • Author : Mark Jones
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1990-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520070875
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Fake written by Mark Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.

Book How To Build Shaker Furniture

Download or read book How To Build Shaker Furniture written by Tom Moser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakers produced many incredible furniture objects that we continue to venerate today. For the woodworker the fascination is often rooted in the essential simplicity of the work. Interest in Shaker design is as strong today as it was when the first edition of this book was published in 1977, possibly stronger. This ongoing interest is the direct result of the inherent beauty of Shaker design—beauty that stems not only from form, but from superb workmanship, a commitment to utility and a total understanding of material.

Book Antiques Investigator

Download or read book Antiques Investigator written by Judith Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Miller's super-sleuth guide to spotting, buying and collecting antiques, now in ebook(PDF) format If you are looking to discover a valuable treasure or nab a bootsale bargain then antiques and collectables expert Judith Miller shows you how to solve any collecting case. Find out how to tell a genuine antique piece from a fake. Spot signs that indicate an object has been restored. Discover makers and styles to look out for, and whether an object should be kept, or not. Includes expert advice on makers, questions to ask, tips for identifying the best examples in furniture, ceramics, glass, silver, dolls, teddy bears, textiles and more. With hundreds of photographs that reveal every detail of each piece, you'll soon know exactly what to look for. Get more at www.antiques.dk.com with over 30,000 photos, descriptions and price guides. "Super-easy to use, may save or make you a bob or two." 5-star rating, Web User Magazine.

Book Faking Literature

Download or read book Faking Literature written by K. K. Ruthven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faking Literature, first published in 2001, examines the role of forgery in literature.