Download or read book Some Examples of Furniture written by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arts Crafts Furniture written by Kevin P. Rodel and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Morris and the roots of the Arts & Crafts movement, through Gustav Stickley, the Prairie School, and including contemporary pieces, this book celebrates the classic furniture--and the master craftsmen who made it. 500 photos.
Download or read book The Politics of Furniture written by Fredie Floré and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many different parts of the world modern furniture elements have served as material expressions of power in the post-war era. They were often meant to express an international and in some respects apolitical modern language, but when placed in a sensitive setting or a meaningful architectural context, they were highly capable of negotiating or manipulating ideological messages. The agency of modern furniture was often less overt than that of political slogans or statements, but as the chapters in this book reveal, it had the potential of becoming a persuasive and malleable ally in very diverse politically charged arenas, including embassies, governmental ministries, showrooms, exhibitions, design schools, libraries, museums and even prisons. This collection of chapters examines the consolidating as well as the disrupting force of modern furniture in the global context between 1945 and the mid-1970s. The volume shows that key to understanding this phenomenon is the study of the national as well as transnational systems through which it was launched, promoted and received. While some chapters squarely focus on individual furniture elements as vehicles communicating political and social meaning, others consider the role of furniture within potent sites that demand careful negotiation, whether between governments, cultures, or buyer and seller. In doing so, the book explicitly engages different scholarly fields: design history, history of interior architecture, architectural history, cultural history, diplomatic and political history, postcolonial studies, tourism studies, material culture studies, furniture history, and heritage and preservation studies. Taken together, the narratives and case studies compiled in this volume offer a better understanding of the political agency of post-war modern furniture in its original historical context. At the same time, they will enrich current debates on reuse, relocation or reproduction of some of these elements.
Download or read book Furniture Treasury mostly of American Origin written by Wallace Nutting and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1928 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five thousand illustrations with descriptions on the same page.
Download or read book Furniture Design written by Stuart Lawson and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furniture Design is a comprehensive guide and resource for students and furniture designers. As well as discussing pioneering contemporary and historical designs, it also provides substantive answers to designers’ questions about function, materials, manufacture and sustainability, integrating guidance on all of these subjects – particularly material and manufacturing properties, in one accessible and structured volume. Many leading contemporary furniture designers from around the world are included, with case studies carefully selected to highlight the importance of both material and manufacture-led design processes. The book is also intended to provide an insight into furniture design for those considering a university education in product and industrial design.
Download or read book Furniture Furnishings written by Tony White and published by Tab Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Furniture & Furnishings examines and illustrates all the major items and objects of modern furniture with more than 1400 text entries and 1000 key line illustrations. The text and illustrations complement each other, so that the reader can begin with either the object or the word. All the main types of each object of furniture are featured, together with their methods of construction, their parts and their decoration, both formal and surface. Even more information is provided by an illustrated timechart of furniture periods, brief biographies of 70 furniture designers, and descriptions of more than 100 furniture styles.
Download or read book Eat Well Move Well Live Well written by Galina Denzel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want more energy to lose some weight to reconnect with your kitchen, to discover the lost art of walking to finally kick that nagging back pain, or to simply get a better night's sleep? Are you looking to build a vibrant life? This simple straightforward, effective guide to healthier, happier living is the place to start. International wellness coaches Galina and Roland Denzel, authors of The Real Food Reset and founders of EatWellMoveWell.com, have helped many achieve their health goals through simple solutions based on small changes. Now they've brought together their collective experience and expertise in a comprehensive new volume. You can read the book cover to cover, theme by theme, or go ''choose your own adventure" style. Whatever you choose, by following Galina and Roland's suggestions on everything from movement, alignment, and walking; to fish, fats, and fermented foods; sleeping, vacationing and working; and bad days, de-stressing, and building a support network, you'll find the tools to make significant changes in a week. Each chapter includes tasks to enable you to embark on real, immediate change, and invitations to share your progress and ideas with a community of fellow readers. Book jacket.
Download or read book Examples of Old Furniture English and Foreign written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Furniture Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Furniture Treasury mostly of American Origin written by Wallace Nutting and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700 2000 written by Claudia Kinmonth and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major illustrated study investigates farmhouse and cabin furniture from all over the island of Ireland. It discusses the origins and evolution of useful objects, what materials were used and why, and how furniture made for small spaces, often with renewable elements, was innate and expected. Encompassing three centuries, it illuminates a way of life that has almost vanished. It contributes as much to our knowledge of Ireland's cultural history as to its history of furniture. Lavishly illustrated with a mass of the author's own photographs, mostly in colour and many previously unpublished, it draws on several decades of fieldwork, underpinned by academic research. It looks at influences such as traditional architecture, shortage of timber, why and how furniture was painted, and the characteristics of designs made by a range of furniture makers. The incorporation of natural materials such as bog oak, turf, driftwood, straw, recycled tyres or packing cases is viewed in terms of use, and durability. Chapters individually examine stools, chairs and then settles in all their ingenious and multi-purpose forms. How dressers were authentically arranged, with displays varying minutely according to time and place, reveal how some had indoor coops to encourage hens to lay through winter. Some people ate communally or slept in outshot beds, in the coldest north-west, this is illustrated through art as well as surviving objects. Hanging cradles and falling tables are discussed. A chapter is devoted to the hearth and the shrine, another focuses on small furnishings, such as horn spoons, wooden drinking vessels, basketry, tin-ware, aluminium, coarse earthenware and spongeware pottery.
Download or read book European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully produced volume is the first to survey the Metropolitan Museum's world-renowned collection of European furniture. One hundred and three superb examples from the Museum's vast holdings are featured. They originated in workshops in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, or Spain and date from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. A number of them belonged to such important historical figures as Pope Urban VIII, Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, and Napoleon. The selection includes chairs, tables, beds, cabinets, commodes, settees and sofas, bookcases and standing shelves, desks, fire screens, athéniennes, coffers, chests, mirrors and frames, showcases, and lighting equipment. There is also one purely decorative piece, a superb vase made for a Russian noble family who, according to one awestruck viewer, "owned all the malachite mines in the world." The makers of some of the objects are unknown, but most of the pieces can be identified by label, documentation, or style as the work of an outstanding European designer-craftsman, such as André-Charles Boulle, Thomas Chippendale, David Roentgen, or Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Download or read book Furniture World written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Furniture Treasury mostly of American Origin All Periods of American Furniture with Some Foreign Examples in America Also American Hardware and Household Utensils written by Wallace Nutting and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic in the field, indispensable for the beginning collector, the connoisseur, the dealer, the student, and the decorator. Tells the reader where and what to collect, analyzes the special problems of the small collector, lists 21 precautions for the beginner.
Download or read book Furniture Treasury mostly of American Origin written by Wallace Nutting and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 1123 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.
