Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions
Focuses on a group of leading studio furniture artists whose response to the forms, materials, techniques, and meaning of China's rich furniture traditions reveals the creative power of an exchange in art and culture. This graceful book showcases furniture produced by 22 American, Canadian, and Chinese studio furniture makers for the Peabody Essex Museum.
Perfect Paper Mosaics
Attractive, fun, and flexible, paper mosaics are a fabulous new way to decorate furniture, spruce up a picture frame, transform a tea tray, or embellish a book cover. And because they use many of the same tools as scrapbooking and rubber-stamping, crafters who already enjoy those arts will find the 10 techniques introduced here a perfect fit. The skills proceed from simple to more complicated, starting with the basic process of backing the paper with poster board, cutting the tiles, gluing the pieces, and sealing and protecting the finished product. Page after page reveals colorful and unique items, including coasters, refrigerator magnets, tissue box holders, a backgammon board, wall hangings, a lidded box, a lampshade, clocks, and decorative mirrors.
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Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
During the reings of Louis XV (1723-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92), fashion and furniture were not meant simply to be beautiful but were also intended to arouse, attract, and seduce. Published in response to the critically acclaimed and hugely popular exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in the fall of 2004, "Dangerous Liaisons Will focus on fashion and its interplay with the art, furniture, and decorative arts of eighteenth-century France. Featuring beautiful color photographs of the exhibition's installation, details of the garments, and supplementary historical material, the book demonstrates how the extravagant clothing of the period reiterated the splendor of Rococo and Neoclassical interiors. Either as as souvenir of the Museum's exhibition or as a fascinating survey of eighteenth-century French fashion, decorative arts, history, and culture, "Dangerous Haisons is an essential book to own.
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Minimum by John Pawson, ISBN 0714838179
This extraordinary visual essay explores the notion of 'minimum', a concept which is rooted in the pursuit of simplicity, as applied to architecture, art and design; it is the quality that a building or object possesses when every component, every detail and every junction has been reduced or condensed to its essentials. Now itself condensed, Minimum is available for the first time as a pocket edition.
This book, designed and compiled by the minimalist architect John Pawson, captures the essential qualities of particular kinds of simplicity. This is illustrated by architecture, ranging from prehistoric Mexico and Ancient Egypt to the high Modernism of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe; art, from the Dutch School to Donald Judd; the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe and Bill Brandt; and furniture and pottery. With its broad spread across time and a wide geographical area, Minimum seeks to analyse the elements of simplicity and capture them in print.
Minimum by John Pawson, ISBN 0714838179
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Room and Furniture Layout Kit by Muncie Hendler, ISBN 0486242137
Moving or redecorating? Use this handy furniture layout kit to design your rooms before you purchase or reposition a single item. Includes 215 furniture shapes, graph paper and complete instructions.
Room and Furniture Layout Kit by Muncie Hendler, ISBN 0486242137
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Arts and Crafts Furniture: The Complete Brooks Catalog of 1912 by Brooks Manufacturing Company, ISBN 0486274713
In the early 1900s American taste in furniture changed from Victorian to the simpler look associated with Mission and Craftsman styles and the Arts & Crafts movement. The Brooks Manufacturing Co. specialized in the these new designs. This republication of the company's 1912 catalog contains photographs and detailed descriptions of more than 150 now collectible pieces. 150 photos. 20 illustrations. 1 color plate.
Arts and Crafts Furniture: The Complete Brooks Catalog of 1912 by Brooks Manufacturing Company, ISBN 0486274713
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Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions Furniture sofas
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