Furniture category: 244 books
French Provincial - Furniture and Accessories - For Interiors and Gardens
Lamps - Clocks - Faience - Porcelain - Tole and Other Metalwork - Garden Fountains, Sculptures and Other Ornaments
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
This vintage book contains a catalogue of French provincial furniture and accessories, including lamps, clocks, faience, porcelain, garden fountains, sculptures, and other ornaments. With useful tips for purchasing and descriptions of notable pieces, this volume is highly recommended for those with...
by Gustav Stickley
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Studying, exhibiting, and collecting Gustave Stickley's austere, functional designs for furniture and other home furnishing continue to be major pursuits of scholars, curators, dealers, and collectors in the decorative field. This volume brings back into print two original Craftsmen catalogs illustrating...
Furniture Makeovers
Simple Techniques for Transforming Furniture with Paint, Stains, Paper, Stencils, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Furniture Makeovers shows how to transform tired furniture into stunning showpieces. You'll never look at a hand-me-down dresser the same way again! The book offers 26 easy-to-follow techniques that can be applied to all different types of pieces, from bookshelves to desks: painting, applying gold...
Warman's Modernism Furniture and Acessories
Identification and Price Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
The cool designs, sleek lines and fashion-forward forms of the open and optimistic feel of the modernism furniture and design is as reflective of attitude as it is ingenuity. The enthusiasm and boundless hope of post-War 1950s America, not unlike our country’s current eagerness for a shot of optimism,...
by Doug Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Here's an opportunity to create something truly unique by using woodworking techniques that are as "green" as it gets.
By collecting branches and logs, recycled lumber, or scavenged wood from old buildings, you can build rustic furniture with a distinctive look -- and a primitive,...
Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture
42 step-by-step projects to transform your home
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
With this book in one hand and a brush in the other, you can learn how to transform everyday furniture into something special, all for the price of a pot of paint. Annie Sloan is a paint legend and one of the world’s most popular experts in the field of decorative painting. In Colour Recipes for...
by Thomas Sheraton
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Thomas Sheraton's trade card offered his services as delineator and designer. In this capacity he began to publish The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book in 1791. With additions and alterations it reached completed form in 1794. In the process it changed from a wordy treatise on mechanical...
by Anon
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Contained within this antique book is a fascinating analysis of Tudor Gothic Furniture. A book that will be of considerable value to those with an interest in historical furniture, this text comes complete with a plethora of exquisite illustrations and fascinating information – one not to be missed...
The Furniture Bible
Everything You Need to Know to Identify, Restore & Care for Furniture
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
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...
Making Authentic Shaker Furniture
With Measured Drawings of Museum Classics
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
This splendid book describes and illustrates in detail how the Shakers designed, built, and finished their furniture and household articles. With its detailed text as well as over 250 photographs and measured drawings for over 80 classic pieces, it offers woodworkers and furniture enthusiasts a practical...
by Gustav Ecke
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Westerners have long admired Chinese furniture for its durability, inner strength, quiet restraint, and simple dignity. Especially attractive to the educated eye are its purity of line, devotion to detail, and flawless construction. This unabridged reprint of a rare classic provides lovers of Chinese...
by Hugh Phillipe
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Chintz' was originally glazed calico textiles, initially specifically those imported from India, printed with designs featuring flowers and other patterns in different colours, typically on a light plain background. This book contains a fascinating guide to the history of English chintz, in relation...
by R. S. Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This vintage book contains comprehensive instructions for designing and constructing a range of furniture from simple footstools to ornate folding tables. With complete, step-by-step instructions and useful diagrams, this volume is ideal for anyone with an interest in making their own furniture. Contents...
Mission Furniture
How to Make It
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Mission style has withstood the test of time. In homes across America and around the world, Mission furniture creates a look and feel to a home that few others styles can-elegant and homey, all at once. This is a classic book of Mission-style furniture, filled with plans for the do-it-yourselfer and...