Hispanic Furniture

Hispanic Furniture
Author: Sali Barnett Katz
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1986
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

This practical guide to Hispanic furniture explores the full range of classic Spanish design from its origins to the present. More than 290 photos and line drawings, compiled from twenty established and previously unpublished collections, are an extensive survey of Spanish influence.

Furniture of Spanish New Mexico

Furniture of Spanish New Mexico
Author: Alan C. Vedder
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1977
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780913270660

Traditional Spanish New Mexican furniture can best be characterized as simple, having straight lines and good, honest proportions, all of which give these pieces a particular type of dignity. As is true of other handmade objects in a given society, furniture made in New Mexico mirrored the lives of New Mexicans in the 18th and 19th centuries--isolation and a rugged existence. The earliest furniture was made for churches and a few rich families. Even well into the 19th century, the average home was devoid of pieces considered common today: chairs, tables and beds. The author regards the traditional period in Spanish New Mexican furniture to begin about 1776 and extend until almost 1900. The pieces in this book illustrate the important contributions made by the Spanish in the 18th and 19th centuries to this form of the decorative arts.

Hacienda Style

Hacienda Style
Author: Karen Witynski
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2008-02-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1423612787

Invite the rich colors, natural textures, and romantic beauty of Mexico into your home. With a vast architectural legacy spanning four centuries, Mexican haciendas express a rugged romantic beauty and compelling sense of history. Today, the hacienda's graceful arcaded silhouette, grand-scale proportions, carved-stone ornament, rich colors and natural textures have become an ever-increasing influence for architects and designers worldwide. Hacienda Style invites you into Mexico's artful, hacienda havens resplendent with private collections of colonial and contemporary art, antiques and found relics. Witynski and Carr's antiques and accents have appeared in national magazines, television programs and feature films, including Architectural Digest, Western Interiors, HGTV's Takeover My Makeover, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and The Alamo. Other books by the same authors: Mexican Country Style, The New Hacienda, Casa Adobe, Adobe Details, Casa Yucatan, and Mexican Details.

Classic New Mexican Furniture

Classic New Mexican Furniture
Author: Kingsley H. Hammett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1996
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

Instructional photographs and drawings show how to produce furniture with the unmistakable stamp of the classic New Mexican tradition.

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Anthropology

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Anthropology
Author: Nicolàs Kanellos
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781611921618

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.