Gold Leaf Application and Antique Restoration
Gold Leaf Application and Antique Restoration

Author: Ellen Becker

Publisher: Schiffer Craft

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780764306327

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Gold leaf gilder and restoration artist Ellen Becker brings her years of experience to readers through over 300 full color photos and step-by-step instructions for various gold leafing and restoration techniques through a series of projects.This is the most comprehensive instructional book for gold leafing on the market today.

The Complete Wooden Runabout Restoration Guide
The Complete Wooden Runabout Restoration Guide

Author: Don Danenberg

Publisher: Voyageur Press

Published: 2008-08-15

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1616732156

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Now MBI Publishing Company’s two top-selling boating titles—written by one of the world’s top authorities on the subject of antique wooden boat restoration—are available in one volume. In this comprehensive restoration guide for owners and enthusiasts of wooden powerboats of all makes and models built from the early 1920s through the 1960s, author Don Dannenberg covers all major woodworking aspects of restoration: surveying, disassembly, repair, reconstruction, and varnishing. But when it comes to restoring a classic wooden powerboat, getting the frame, planking, and deck right is just one part of the story. Danenberg also walks enthusiasts through the topics of hardware, running gear, electrical wiring, plumbing, instruments, upholstery, trailers, and maintenance. Fully illustrated with step-by-step color photos and written in an entertaining style in which the author stresses sound reconstruction techniques over preservation of original components, this comprehensive volume also includes resource listings, glossaries, and School of Hard Knocks sidebars.

The Furniture Bible
The Furniture Bible

Author: Christophe Pourny

Publisher: Artisan

Published: 2014-11-04

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1579656455

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A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Crucial Home & Design Book for Beginners A Library Journal Best Book of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Month Christophe Pourny learned the art of furniture restoration in his father’s atelier in the South of France. In this, his first book, he teaches readers everything they need to know about the provenance and history of furniture, as well as how to restore, update, and care for their furniture—from antiques to midcentury pieces, family heirlooms or funky flea-market finds. The heart of the book is an overview of Pourny’s favorite techniques—ceruse, vernis anglais,and water gilding, among many others—with full-color step-by-step photographs to ensure that readers can easily replicate each refinishing technique at home. Pourny brings these techniques to life with a chapter devoted to real-world refinishing projects, from a veneered table to an ebonized desk, a gilt frame to a painted northern European hutch. Rounding out this comprehensive guide is care and maintenance information, including how to properly clean leather, polish hardware, fix a broken leg, and replace felt pads, as well as recipes to make your own wax, shellac, varnish, stain, and more.

The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper
The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper

Author: Max Schweidler

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780892368358

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Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. To address what he saw as a woeful dearth of relevant literature and in order to assist those who have 'set themselves the goal of preserving cultural treasures, ' the noted German restorer composed a thorough technical manual covering a wide range of specific techniques, including detailed instructions on how to execute structural repairs and alterations that, if skilfully done, can be virtually undetectable. By the mid-twentieth century, curators and conservators of graphic arts, discovering a nearly invisible repair in an old master print or drawing, might comment that the object had been 'Schweidlerized.' This volume, based on the authoritative revised German edition of 1949, makes Schweidler's work available in English for the first time, in a meticulously edited and annotated critical edition. The editor's introduction places the work in its historical context and probes the philosophical issues the book raises, while some two hundred annotati

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture

Author: Elise A. Friedland

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 0199921822

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Situates the study of Roman sculpture within the fields of art history, classical archaeology, and Roman studies, presenting technical, scientific, literary, and theoretical approaches.

Japanese Antique Furniture
Japanese Antique Furniture

Author: Rosy Clarke

Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780834801783

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This guide is a practical introduction to identifying, evaluating, purchasing and restoring Japanese furniture. The work presents 19 common types of wooden furniture, with an easy-to-follow restoration procedure in 23 steps. Advice is provided for caring for your antiques subsequent to restoration, along with a checklist of evaluation points and appendices listing antique shops, fairs and flea markets in the Tokyo area.

Art Books
Art Books

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 1562

ISBN-13:

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Including an international directory of museum permanent collection catalogs.