Instilling a cultivated taste for all authentically creative furniture! From ancient Greece and Rome, through medieval times, and up to the present day, domestic furniture has been an integral part of civilization, and its study reveals much about our history and culture. This classic guide to furniture styles discusses the development of domestic furniture in Europe, America, and China, detailing the great periods of French and English furniture from the Renaissance through the Empire and Regency periods. Furniture from every age is represented in over 600 photographs of pieces from major collections throughout the world. The book's highly readable style and extensive coverage make it a valuable resource for interior designers.
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This enlarged edition contains 500 pages, plus 176 pages with 637 black and white photographs.
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good written description of history and style,
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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles (Paperback)
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FURNITURE STYLES is a well written guide to the history of different periods of furniture. It states the history of the period and crucial pieces with a description of the piece. There are very few pictures, so if you are looking for a guide to train your eye to note characteristics of period pieces, this will not help you. If you are looking for a written description of the pieces, this book is for you.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book for a history of furniture styles!,
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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles (Paperback)
I have to disagree with the previous reviewer--this book is FILLED with pictures in the back half of the book. The pictures are disappointingly all black and white, but it keeps the cost down I suppose. This is the best resource for visual identification of styles from Egyptian through Twentieth Century that I have seen, and I have seen quite a lot of them. The front half of the book is very detailed information about each of the styles as well as specific pieces within each style. It's not something you can read from cover to cover, as the details would quickly overcome you. But it is a wonderful reference book for anyone who wants to be able to look up a particular style, read about it, and look at many pictures to visually understand general characteristics of the style.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Found book arrangement difficult,
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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles (Paperback)
A College textbook or reference-type book. Comprehensive--fine print. Seemed a good read, but I didn't like the set-up. All text was in the front, and the examples and photos were grouped in the back. One would need to flip back and forth to view examples of the subject matter. Didn't work for me.
This is the only reason I gave it a low rating, and returned the book.
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gilded bronze appliqués, valanced base, continuous floor stretcher, broad front stretcher, long cupboard doors, molded bracket base, one characteristic variety, pierced metal gallery, valanced apron, gilded bronze mounts, incurvate arm, buffet bas, certosina work, cheval fire screen, hinged slant lid, panelled cupboard doors, oblong top, classical figure subjects, bronze doré mounts, gilt wood side tables, tetrapod base, one principal variety, commode decorated, hinged box lid, panel bandings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Queen Anne, Art Nouveau, Early Georgian, Robert Adam, French Empire, New York, Italian Renaissance, American Empire, Late Renaissance, Van de Velde, High Renaissance, Middle Ages, United States, William Kent, New England, Art Furniture, Daniel Marot, Inigo Jones, Late Jacobean, English Regency, First World War, French Directoire, French Renaissance, Italian Baroque, Spanish Renaissance New!
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gilded bronze appliqués, valanced base, continuous floor stretcher, broad front stretcher, long cupboard doors, molded bracket base, one characteristic variety, pierced metal gallery, valanced apron, gilded bronze mounts, incurvate arm, buffet bas, certosina work, cheval fire screen, hinged slant lid, panelled cupboard doors, oblong top, classical figure subjects, bronze doré mounts, gilt wood side tables, tetrapod base, one principal variety, commode decorated, hinged box lid, panel bandings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Queen Anne, Art Nouveau, Early Georgian, Robert Adam, French Empire, New York, Italian Renaissance, American Empire, Late Renaissance, Van de Velde, High Renaissance, Middle Ages, United States, William Kent, New England, Art Furniture, Daniel Marot, Inigo Jones, Late Jacobean, English Regency, First World War, French Directoire, French Renaissance, Italian Baroque, Spanish Renaissance New!
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- Space Planning for Commercial and Residential Interiors by Sam Kubba in Back Matter
- Mennonite Furniture: The Ontario Tradition in York County by Lynda Musson Nykor in Back Matter
- Desks (Projects Book) by Andy Charron in Back Matter
- American Furniture of the 18th Century: History, Technique, and Structure by Jeffrey P Greene in Back Matter
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