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DICTIONARY OF FURNITURE
With more than 2,000 entries, this authoritative and comprehensive text covers the subject of furniture in its entirety. References range from ancient forms and styles through the postmodern era. All regions of the world are included, from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to China, Japan, and India; from continental Europe and Great Britain to North and South America.
The A-to-Z entries include all names and terms germane to the field such as furniture forms, movements, schools, periods and styles, cabinetmakers, designers, manufacturers, construction techniques and materials, decorative details, and much more. Each entry provides a definition or identification, important dates, an explanation of any special significance attached to the term, and, where applicable, cross-references.
This informative text is profusely illustrated with 400 clear line drawings depicting complete furniture forms as well as their decorations and stylistic details.
Charles...
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Fülszöveg
DICTIONARY OF FURNITURE
With more than 2,000 entries, this authoritative and comprehensive text covers the subject of furniture in its entirety. References range from ancient forms and styles through the postmodern era. All regions of the world are included, from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to China, Japan, and India; from continental Europe and Great Britain to North and South America.
The A-to-Z entries include all names and terms germane to the field such as furniture forms, movements, schools, periods and styles, cabinetmakers, designers, manufacturers, construction techniques and materials, decorative details, and much more. Each entry provides a definition or identification, important dates, an explanation of any special significance attached to the term, and, where applicable, cross-references.
This informative text is profusely illustrated with 400 clear line drawings depicting complete furniture forms as well as their decorations and stylistic details.
Charles Boyce is a writer, editor, and long-time student of art history with a special interest in the decorative arts. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and presently lives in New York.
Joseph T. Butler, one of our foremost authorities on American furniture, is the author of Field Guide to American Antique Furniture.
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