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Author: John Morley
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780500019481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of furniture. John Morely documents the aesthetics of furniture, its social and cultural context, the sequence of styles - from Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman through Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and onwards - and the individual touches of craftsmen or designers used to give it character.
Author: Joclyn M. Oats
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 1000406105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Illustrated Guide to Furniture History provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning about furniture history from Antiquity to Postmodernism. Following an immersive teaching model, it presents a Nine-Step Methodology to help students strengthen their visual literacy and quickly acquire subject area knowledge. Moving chronologically through key periods in furniture history and interior design, such as the Renaissance, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Modernism, it traverses Europe to America to present a comprehensive foundational guide to the history of furniture design. Part I addresses furniture within the context of the built environment, with chapters exploring the historical perspective, construction principles, and the categorization of furniture. In Part II, the author visually depicts the structural organization of the methodological process, a three-category framework: History, Aesthetics, and Visual Notes. The chapters in this part prepare the reader for the visual analysis that will occur in the final section of the book. The book is lavishly illustrated in full color with over 300 images to reinforce visual learning and notation. A must-have reference and study guide for students in industrial and product design, interior design, and architecture.
Author: Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780500181737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Rich in information ... sharp in perception."-The Times Educational Supplement
Author: Edwin Foley
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 566
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robbie G. Blakemore
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 456
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Author: Clarence Carlson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-01-28
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1625847793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile all but gone today, Jamestown's furniture industry was once the second-largest producer of furniture in the United States. Manufacturing boomed from 1816, when William Breed and Royal Keyes opened their shops, to the 1920s, when Jamestown was still one of the top wood furniture producers in the country. In the nineteenth century, the thriving railroad industry allowed Jamestown's quality creations to be distributed nationwide. After the Civil War, an influx of Swedish immigrants brought their craftsmanship and skills to Jamestown, forming Morgan Manufacturing, Empire Furniture Company and many others. Then, their pieces were valued for quality and durability; today, they're coveted by collectors as beautiful antiques. Local expert Clarence Carlson uncovers the fascinating story of Jamestown furniture.
Author: Norman Vandal
Publisher: Taunton
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780942391077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeasured Drawings for 18 classic pieces.
Author: Antoinette LaFarge
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-10-24
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 3030323412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Progressive Era, a time when the field of design was dominated almost entirely by men, a largely forgotten activist and teacher named Louise Brigham became a pioneer of sustainable furniture design. With her ingenious system for building inexpensive but sturdy “box furniture” out of recycled materials, she aimed to bring good design to the urban working class. As Antoinette LaFarge shows, Brigham forged a singular career for herself that embraced working in the American and European settlement movements, publishing a book of box furniture designs, running carpentry workshops in New York, and founding a company that offered some of the earliest ready-to-assemble furniture in the United States. Her work was a resounding critique of capitalism’s waste and an assertion of new values in design—values that stand at the heart of today’s open and green design movements.
Author: Frederick Litchfield
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dimitra Andrianou
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1350279900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this volume focuses on the social history of furniture found in houses, tombs and temples as narrated through the archaeological evidence. The earliest furniture can be seen as an attempt by humans to enhance their safety, comfort and social standing but it can also offer opportunities for understanding human behavior, values and thought: fine furniture was among the most valuable of possessions in the ancient world so it expressed power, wealth and status. It was appreciated as art, used in diplomacy (both as a gift and as tribute) and recorded as booty. At the same time, its practical and ceremonial uses yield important clues about the domestic environment and daily life in antiquity, as well as revealing aspects of sacred belief and funerary practices. 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.
