Furniture Masterpieces - Detailed Drawings Construction Techniques / Scarce Book

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MASTERPIECES OF FURNITURE  - In Photographs and Measured Drawings
by Verna Cook Salomonsky, Dover Publications, N.Y., 1953/1974, is a revised edition of a standard work first published in 1931 with the title
Masterpieces of Furniture Design
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With 102 black-and-white photographs and 500 detailed line drawings,  “This comprehensive study of furniture styles is one of the most useful books in the field to furniture designers, manufacturers, craftsmen, students, antique dealers and collectors.  Photographs and measured drawings of the most striking furniture pieces of the 16th, 17th, 18th and early years of the 19th centuries comprise the major part of the book; the accompanying textual material indicates stylistic features and developments, prototypes, kinds of wood used, the function of the piece, and where the original is now located.”  Objects depicted include couches, commodes, highboys, desks, dressing tables, chairs, tables, chests and more.  Familiar makers’ works appear, including Duncan Phyfe, Windsor, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Chippendale.  Influences from the Dutch and the Italian are discussed.  With 102 photographs to supplement the drawings, and a bibliography of books containing measured drawings of furniture, this book is packed with information and makes an invaluable addition to the reference library and anyone who wants to appreciate or recreate the classics of the Western world’s furniture from Louis the XIV and the centuries following.
7.75” x 10.75” softback in good condition.  About 125 pages.
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