The Shaker Furniture Handbook

The Shaker Furniture Handbook
Author: Timothy D. Rieman
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764320019

This book surveys furniture made during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Shaker communities of New England, Kentucky, and Ohio, with over 130 color photos. Free-standing tables, chairs, boxes, desks, built-in cupboards, and cases of drawers are included. The text introduces nearly twenty Shaker communities, known cabinetmakers, identifiable furniture traits, and designs unique to specific Shaker communites.

The Interior Design Handbook

The Interior Design Handbook
Author: Frida Ramstedt
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0593139321

The new comprehensive bible of interior design, from a home styling guru who has coached an entire Scandinavian generation in the art of creating a harmonious home. Frida Ramstedt believes in thinking about how we decorate, rather than focusing on what we decorate with. We know more today than ever before about design trends, furniture, and knickknacks, and now Frida familiarizes readers with the basic principles behind interior and styling—what looks good and, most of all, why it looks good. The Interior Design Handbook teaches you general rules of thumb—like what the golden ratio and the golden spiral are, the proper size for a coffee table in relation to your sofa, the optimal height to hang lighting fixtures, and the best ways to use a mood board—complete with helpful illustrations. Use The Interior Design Handbook to achieve a balanced, beautiful home no matter where you live or what your style is.

The Book of Shaker Furniture

The Book of Shaker Furniture
Author: John Kassay
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 1980
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780870232756

A comprehensive, amply illustrated guide illustrates the simple, functional furniture style developed during the Shaker movement--a successful experiment in communitarian living--and traces its evolution from the Colonial styles of New York and New England

Campaign Furniture

Campaign Furniture
Author: Christopher Schwarz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-03-07
Genre: Furniture design
ISBN: 9780985077792

The Furniture Handbook

The Furniture Handbook
Author: Frida Ramstedt
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2024-05-21
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0593796152

The comprehensive guide to living with furniture, no matter your style, from the author of The Interior Design Handbook. Interior-design sensation Frida Ramstedt changed how we think about designing a harmonious home with her book The Interior Design Handbook. Now she brings that same authoritative and comprehensive focus to this complementary guide that’s all about the most essential and functional items within your home. No matter your style of home, we all want our spaces to feel inviting and comfortable. And the key to that is quality furniture that supports your lifestyle. The Furniture Handbook shares the foundational rules of choosing, arranging, and caring for the furniture in every room of your home. From selecting the perfect size dining table and seating that fits your family to arranging your living room pieces for the best flow, the basic principles that interior designers use and that everyone should master are provided. • Know what to pay extra attention to when choosing and rearranging furniture and what common complaints people have so you can avoid them. • Understand the dimensions and details of furniture design that determine whether a piece is comfortable or not. • Select quality upholstery that looks beautiful and will endure wear and tear from pets, kids, and daily life. • Learn how to match the scale of different pieces and plan what goes where before you start moving your furniture, so you never regret the time and money you have invested. Complete with simple and elegant illustrations, The Furniture Handbook is your key to creating beautiful, personal spaces in your home.

The Furniture Bible

The Furniture Bible
Author: Christophe Pourny
Publisher: Artisan
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1579656455

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.

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.

The Book of Antique Furniture

The Book of Antique Furniture
Author: Francis Rousseau
Publisher: Booksales
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Furniture
ISBN: 9780785812272

An illustrated guide to identification of the major antique furniture periods and styles from Europe, the United States, and China.

History of Interior Design and Furniture

History of Interior Design and Furniture
Author: Robbie G. Blakemore
Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Services
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1997
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

At last, in a single volume, here is a sweeping, historical survey of interior design, decoration, and furniture. Starting around 3200 B.C., at the height of artistic development in ancient Egypt, Professor Blakemore takes us on a beautifully written and illustrated journey across five millennia of stylistic periods. Unique in its comprehensive approach, this book is a much needed addition to the existing literature on the history of interior design. 100 color illus., plus line drawings and halftones.