Download or read book Treasury of Nineteenth Century Ornamental Metalwork written by Jules Decker and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremely pliable yet amazingly durable, metal offers infinite decorative options. Here are 1,000 prime examples of French metal masterworks, painstakingly reproduced from an extremely rare and valuable edition. From the everyday to the ornate, items include: Weather vanes Tiles Waterspouts Trims Basins Pike heads You'll also find hundreds of other images, offering a wealth of inspiration and useful historical designs.
Download or read book Treasury of Ornamental Ironwork written by Adalbert Roeper and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty vintage black-and-white plates illustrate the history of German decorative ironwork from the16th to the 18th centuries. A hard-to-find celebration of the diversity and enduring beauty of Germany's handcrafted iron embellishments, this magnificent edition exhibits striking views of metal doors, balconies, window arches, gates, corner pieces, decorative accessories, and more, many wrought with gargoyles, human figures, and florals. A rich source of inspiration and an accurate, invaluable reference for art historians, architects, craftworkers, and designers.
Download or read book Victorian Architectural Sheet Metal Ornaments written by Bakewell & Mullins and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1,000 designs in rare 19th-century catalog of impressive architectural ornaments and statuary — rendered in zinc, brass, and copper — includes rosettes, historical figures, angels, gargoyles, knights, eagles, griffins, cornices, friezes, much more. Captions supply measurements and prices. Great browsing for antique and nostalgia buffs; excellent source of royalty-free illustrations.
Download or read book Treasury of Ironwork Designs written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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 Treasury of Ironwork Designs written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Catalog of ornamental metalwork written by Giot (Firm : Paris, France) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ornamental Carpentry on Nineteenth century American Houses written by Ben Karp and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: handsome photographs plus captions and Introduction convey fascination of characteristic sawn-wood ornamentation embellishing houses constructed 1820-1910.
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 408 Victorian Ornamental Designs written by F. Knight and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of authentic nineteenth-century ornaments, created by one of the era's top designers! Intricate scrollwork, elaborate borders and frames, and scores of other lush Victorian motifs—this fabulous collection contains a versatile array of royalty-free engravings. Reproduced from a rare original edition, these highlights from the pen of artist F. Knight include murals with trompe-l'oeil effects, carved urns, running vines, blossoms, realistic and grotesque animals, and other splendid decorations.
Download or read book The Antiques Treasury of Furniture and Other Decorative Arts at Winterthur Williamsburg Sturbridge Ford Museum Cooperstown Deerfield and Shelburne written by Alice Winchester and published by Galahad Books. This book was released on 1959 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on seven issues of Antiques, published in 1951.
Download or read book Volume of Designs for Ornamental Metalwork written by W.T. Allen & Co and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decorative Antique Ironwork written by Henry R. d’Allemagne and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from a rare 1924 source by a noted scholar, over 4,500 outstanding examples of antique ironwork run the gamut from door knockers and grilles to jewelry and religious symbols.
Download or read book Treasury of Historic Pattern and Design written by J. Engelhorn and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich sourcebook of design features 480 magnificently detailed decorative patterns and motifs, most of them originally created in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Reprinted from a rare surviving copy of a Victorian design portfolio, it offers both a boundless, royalty-free source of inspiration and an informal by far-ranging survey of notable achievements in the history of design. These intricate and ornate patterns were taken from silk fabrics, carpets, embroideries, robes, velvet brocades, damask wearings, wallpapers, interior, and other decorative genres that flourished in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and elsewhere over the course of more than eight centuries.
Download or read book Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia written by Philip B. Wallace and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated tribute to Philadelphia's many well-preserved examples of colonial ironwork features 182 crisp black-and-white photographs and 41 measured drawings of ornamented railings and gates, marble steps, balconies, lanterns, and more.
Download or read book Reproduction of Illustrations of Ornamental Metal work Forming L art Du Serrurier written by Mathurin Jousse and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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