Antique Furniture (Starting to Collect) /anglais - Hardcover

Andrews, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851494499 ISBN 13: 9781851494491

Verlag: ACC ART BOOKS, 2007

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"Suffice to say that this book is small enough to be toted around the auction rooms and galleries. Like all Antique Collectors' Club offerings, it is chock full of splendid photographs and illustrations, with a huge amount of information expressed in an invitingly readable manner on its well laid out pages" Furniture & Cabinetmaking

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This concise yet wide-ranging survey of collectable antique furniture, illustrated throughout in full colour, guides the new collector through almost three centuries of Western Furniture with clarity and authority. Invaluable as a reference tool, it offers collectors the means to identify key features of a wide variety of pieces, ranging from the Gothic and Renaissance period to Art Nouveau, and the beginning of the twentieth century. The book is structured chronologically by century and, within each time period, by country. Existing collectors will find all titles in the series act as a handy and portable reference, and beginners will welcome a reliable, accessible starting point from which their interests can develop. Readers will find succinct sections detailing all major phases in Western Furniture, with full-colour coverage of English, American, French, Italian, German, Austrian, Low Countries, Spanish and Portuguese pieces. The work of important furniture designers is discussed, from the

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• Verlag: ACC ART BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1851494499
• ISBN 13: 9781851494491
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192