Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754–1851

Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754–1851
Author: Akiko Shimbo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317131290

Covering the period from the publication of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director (1754) to the Great Exhibition (1851), this book analyses the relationships between producer retailers and consumers of furniture and interior design, and explores what effect dialogues surrounding these transactions had on the standardisation of furniture production during this period. This was an era, before mass production, when domestic furniture was made both to order and from standard patterns and negotiations between producers and consumers formed a crucial part of the design and production process. This study narrows in on three main areas of this process: the role of pattern books and their readers; the construction of taste and style through negotiation; and daily interactions through showrooms and other services, to reveal the complexities of English material culture in a period of industrialisation.

The Manual of Musical Instrument Conservation

The Manual of Musical Instrument Conservation
Author: Stewart Pollens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 829
Release: 2015-07-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316299708

This is the first book to combine museum-based conservation techniques with practical instructions on the maintenance, repair, adjustment, and tuning of virtually every type of historical musical instrument. As one of the world's leading conservators of musical instruments, Stewart Pollens gives practical advice on the handling, storage, display and use of historic musical instruments in museums and other settings, and provides technical information on such wide-ranging subjects as acoustics, cleaning, climate control, corrosion, disinfestation, conservation ethics, historic stringing practice, measurement and historic metrology, retouching, tuning historic temperaments, varnish and writing reports. There are informative essays on the conservation of each of the major musical instrument groups, the treatment of paper, textiles, wood and metal, as well as historic techniques of wood and metalworking as they apply to musical instrument making and repair. This is a practical guide that includes equations, formulas, tables and step-by-step instructions.

The Englishman's Chair

The Englishman's Chair
Author: John Gloag
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000776050

Originally published in 1964, The Englishman’s Chair is a history of English chairs, written as a continuous story from the 15th to the 20th Century and because of the revealing powers inherent in chair-making and design, it is also an unconventional footnote to English social history. The changes in taste, and fashion, the increase of skill, the introduction of new materials and the long battle between dignity and comfort are discussed, as is the impact that modern industrial designers have had on chair design.

The First American Furniture Finisher's Manual

The First American Furniture Finisher's Manual
Author: Robert D. Mussey
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780486255309

First guidebook printed in America dealing with furniture finishing, preparing, cleaning surfaces, dyeing, staining, varnishing. Detailed procedures on French polishing, mirror silvering, gilding, Boulle-work marquetry, much more.

A Short Dictionary of Furniture

A Short Dictionary of Furniture
Author: John Gloag
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 814
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000776123

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.