Rattan Furniture

by Harvey Schwartz and Bruce M. Waters

Rattan stalks have been bent into furniture forms in the tropics for nearly a century. Design changes have provided variations from fancy items with bamboo before 1920, to streamlined, Deco-inspired forms of the 1940s, and practical, mass-produced styles in the 1960s and beyond. Today, each rattan style is recognized for its distinctive contribution to casual living spaces, indoors and out. In this book, over 400 color photographs of rattan furniture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764307703
• ISBN13: 9780764307706
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.2" x 8.8"