Masterpieces of Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings: Third Edition

by Verna Cook Salomonsky

Book Overview

This well-known reference work has been consulted by generations of collectors, curators, dealers, historians, and craftsmen, and it remains in use decades after its initial publication. Photographs and measured drawings of the most striking furniture pieces of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries constitute the major part of the book; the accompanying text indicates stylistic features and developments, prototypes, types of wood, function, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486213811
• ISBN13: 9780486213811
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

I recommend it!

The combination of photos, measured drawings, and brief commentary makes this a great resource for designers and craftspeople. On the down side, the drawings are at weird scales (like 0'-1 3/8" = 1'-0"), so if you want to draft from them, you'll have to get crazy with the photocopier or scanner. The organization could be a little tighter-- there's a stool in the table section--, and the pieces aren't quite in chronological order. Still, the details are clear, and the catalog is fairly good. One hundred and two photos! Over 500 drawings! (I think this includes each view/detail.)It's a Dover book! You're not going to find this information for less.