Western Style Furniture

Western Style Furniture

Western Style Furniture

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Furniture: The Western Tradition - History, Style, Design
Furniture: The Western Tradition - History, Style, Design
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A history of furniture. John Morely documents the aesthetics of furniture, its social and cultural context, the sequence of styles - from Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman through Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and onwards - and the individual touches of craftsmen or designers used to give it character. The story is shaped by the conflict between "Classical" and "anti-Classical", order and fantasy, and includes exotic styles from China and Japan, India and Africa. Furniture finds a huge variety of forms, depending on comfort and convenience but also changing fashions in interiors, as well as the influence of politics, religion, architecture and the fine arts. Works by famous designers - Boulle, Chippendale, Riesener, Mackintosh, Eames - appear in the context of the stylistic ideals of their times, and more than 600 illustrations are closely integrated to the text.
The History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition
The History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition
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" The entire story of furniture is presented as it never has been before. Written with great verve and in a highly accessible style, The History of Furniture conveys a vast knowledge of history and design with stunning intellectual clarity. In surveying the development of furniture from antiquity to the present day, John Morley focuses on the Western traditions, but he includes the outside influences of China and Japan, India, Egypt, and Africa. His bravura analysis reveals connections between pieces of furniture, such as the direct line from antiquity to a neoclassical French commode, a Biedermeier dressing table, and a twentieth-century bois clair cocktail cabinet. The story is shaped by a conflict between "classical" and "anti-classical," order and fantasy, and includes the wild extravagances of exotic styles. We see how the simple challenge of making a chair to sit on could generate a huge variety of forms, depending not only on changing fashion in interiors, as well as motifs, ornaments, and ideas from the worlds of politics, religion, architecture, and the fine arts. Works by famous designers-Boulle, Chippendale, Riesener, Makintosh, Eames-appear clearly in the context of the stylish ideals of their times, and nearly 700 illustrations are closely integrated into the text. The result is not only an essential reference tool for everyone concerned with collecting, selling, or studying furniture and the decorative arts but also a tour de force of scholarship that will enthrall anyone with the least interest in the traditions of Western culture."
Rio Grande: High Style Furniture Craftsmen
Rio Grande: High Style Furniture Craftsmen
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Beautiful style created from spanish colonical, Native American, cowboy, and mission influences. Paperback edition.
Contemporary Western Design
Contemporary Western Design
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Western design has evolved from the limitations of log-style architecture, simple and rough-hewn lodgepole pine furnishings, brightly colored leather, and Chimayo weavings to stately interiors that are graceful, elegant, and highly polished, incorporating upscale fabrics and ornamentation
Breaking Ground: A Century of Craft Art in Western New York
Breaking Ground: A Century of Craft Art in Western New York
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--Artist interviews with Wendell Castle, Albert Paley, Wayne Higby, and Michael Taylor --Definitive history of this rich artist's community in New York State that fostered some of the leading artists in the furniture and studio craft movement in America --Of interest to all craft museums, schools, and libraries as well as collectors and art historians --Includes the work of artists whose work has been collected by the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.; New York City's Museum of Arts and Design and Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among many others. It was in the rolling hills and small cities of western New York State that the studio craft movement took root and thrived. In the early 1900s it pulsated with Charles Fergus Binns's New York State School of Clay-Working at Alfred University; Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft community; Gustav Stickley's furniture workshops, and Steuben Glass in Corning. In the middle-to-late 20th century, Alfred nourished such important ceramists as Daniel Rhodes, Ted Randall, and Robert Turner; the school is still ripe with talented artists including Val Cushing, Anne Currier, Andrea and John Gill, and Walter McConnell. In 1950, the School for American Craftsmen (SAC) moved to Rochester recruiting from Europe Tage Frid, John Prip, and Franz Wildenhain to build its departments. Today the area is a nexus of craft activity with such artists as Tom Markusen, Andy Buck, John Eric Byers, and Concetta Mason.
Classic New Mexican Furniture: A Handbook of Plans and Building Techniques
Classic New Mexican Furniture: A Handbook of Plans and Building Techniques
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Casa San Ysidro, a restored hacienda in Corrales, New Mexico, is world famous as the home of the remarkable collection of early New Mexico furniture assembled by Ward Alan Minge and his wife, Shirley, along with their equally extensive collection of farm and domestic tools and equipment. Now owned by The Albuquerque Museum, these items have long served scholars and students as an invaluable source of information on life in colonial New Mexico. Today access to the collection is limited to small groups, but this book will be welcomed as the first published record of some of the Minge furniture collection. Photographs and dimensioned drawings of thirty-six of the collection's finest examples of early colonial carpintero craftsmanship along with drawings of fifteen authentic design details will help artisans re-create these classic pieces. Anyone interested in New Mexico furniture design and its evolution will find this book valuable both as a reference tool and as an aid to making furniture whose design and proportions will be true to the originals.
Molesworth: The Pioneer of Western Design
Molesworth: The Pioneer of Western Design
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Thomas Molesworth, were he alive today, would be both proud and amazed at the influence his Shoshone Furniture Company and the Cody artists' colony he inspired would have on his old hometown and the Western Design movement seventy-two years after he started producing furniture. Based on nearly two decades of buying, selling, pursuing, and researching Molesworth furniture, Terry Winchell has created a definitive book that covers all spectrums of Molesworth's work, including the influence of the other artists who made his style unique, as well as stylistically and financially successful. The fact that Molesworth's furniture career spanned thirty plus years speaks for itself. An excellent guide for collectors of Molesworth's work, this book is also an invaluable resource for fans of the Western Design movement. < BR>
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