Craftsman of the Cumberlands: Tradition and Creativity by Michael Owen Jones, ISBN 081319038X
Michael Owen Jones's study of chair-making in southeastern Kentucky focuses on rural woodworker Chester Cornett. Cornett found a sense of security, stability, and self-esteem in the structures of his chairs and the virtuosity of their design. Considering other area craftsmen for comparison, Jones explores why people value aesthetic qualities as well as utilitarian ones in the making of everyday objects. He looks deeper still into the nature of the creative process and the traditions that influence it.
Furniture by Ronald Pearsall, ISBN 1577170458
Both experienced collectors and beginners will find these guides useful in identifying antiques in many areas and determining their styles and periods.
This book covers every aspect of antique furniture -- cabinets and bookcases; chairs, sofas and settles; chests and wardrobes; dressers and sideboards. It outlines changing periods of furniture design and the work of the great craftsmen.
Furniture by Ronald Pearsall, ISBN 1577170458
Chairs > Furniture by Ronald Pearsall, ISBN 1577170458
Revenge of the Paste Eaters: Memoirs of a Misfit
The author of "Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs" is back with a funny and poignant new collection of personal stories about growing up a misfit.
Revenge of the Paste Eaters: Memoirs of a Misfit
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1000 Chairs
The ubiquitous chair in all its shapes and forms (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a back-rest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the colour of the entire artefact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of each era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto via Verner Panton to Eva Zeisel; from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the phenomenon of the chair is so complex that it requires a reference work as comprehensive as this to do it full justice. They are all here: Thonet's bentwood chairs and Hoffmann's sitting-machines, Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair and Ron Arad's avant garde armchairs. The book, a slightly abbreviated version of our classic title 1000 Chairs, devotes one page to each chair, displayed on its own as pure form, with biographical and historical information about the chair.
1000 Chairs
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The House in Good Taste
After ninety years, "The House in Good Taste" by America's "first lady of interior decoration," Elsie de Wolfe, still offers timeless design advice.
Compiled from her articles in newspapers and magazines and first published in 1914, "The House in Good Taste" is a seminal book on interior design with ideas that have lasted a century because they influenced not only the wealthy clients of Park Avenue and Palm Beach, but popular taste as well.
De Wolfe advised Americans to shun ostentation and clutter in favor of simplicity, to dismantle the draperies in order to let in the light, and to replace garish colors with beige and ivory. "I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint," she declared, "comfortable chairs with lights beside them, open fires on the hearth and flowers wherever they 'belong, ' mirrors and sunshine in all rooms." The rooms that Americans inhabited in the middle of the twentieth century still today owe much to de Wolfe's tastes.
The House in Good Taste
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Handbook of Ornament by Franz S. Meyer, ISBN 0486203026
Standard collection of line drawings of chairs, thrones, crowns, heraldry, altars, armor, architecture, scores of other objects. 3,002 illus.
Handbook of Ornament by Franz S. Meyer, ISBN 0486203026
Chairs > Handbook of Ornament by Franz S. Meyer, ISBN 0486203026
The House in Good Taste
After ninety years, "The House in Good Taste" by America's "first lady of interior decoration," Elsie de Wolfe, still offers timeless design advice.
Compiled from her articles in newspapers and magazines and first published in 1914, "The House in Good Taste" is a seminal book on interior design with ideas that have lasted a century because they influenced not only the wealthy clients of Park Avenue and Palm Beach, but popular taste as well.
De Wolfe advised Americans to shun ostentation and clutter in favor of simplicity, to dismantle the draperies in order to let in the light, and to replace garish colors with beige and ivory. "I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint," she declared, "comfortable chairs with lights beside them, open fires on the hearth and flowers wherever they 'belong, ' mirrors and sunshine in all rooms." The rooms that Americans inhabited in the middle of the twentieth century still today owe much to de Wolfe's tastes.
The House in Good Taste
Chairs > The House in Good Taste
Furniture by Ronald Pearsall, ISBN 1577170458
Both experienced collectors and beginners will find these guides useful in identifying antiques in many areas and determining their styles and periods.
This book covers every aspect of antique furniture -- cabinets and bookcases; chairs, sofas and settles; chests and wardrobes; dressers and sideboards. It outlines changing periods of furniture design and the work of the great craftsmen.
Furniture by Ronald Pearsall, ISBN 1577170458
Chairs > Furniture by Ronald Pearsall, ISBN 1577170458