The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles
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This classic guide to furniture styles discusses the development of domestic furniture in Europe, American, & China detailing the great periods of French & English furniture from the Renaissance... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0881339393
ISBN13:9780881339390
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:Waveland Press
Length:500 Pages
Weight:2.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 7.0" x 10.2"
Customer Reviews
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The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
As a college educator in the history of architecture, furniture and the decorative arts I think the Boger is a very good overall text both to students and interested others. Information on furnitre prior to Gothic is the weakest, and would reccomend other texts to satisfy those needs. Photographic reproduction quality in some instances barely passable.
Great book for a history of furniture styles!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I have to disagree with the previous reviewer--this book is FILLED with pictures in the back half of the book. The pictures are disappointingly all black and white, but it keeps the cost down I suppose. This is the best resource for visual identification of styles from Egyptian through Twentieth Century that I have seen, and I have seen quite a lot of them. The front half of the book is very detailed information about each of the styles as well as specific pieces within each style. It's not something you can read from cover to cover, as the details would quickly overcome you. But it is a wonderful reference book for anyone who wants to be able to look up a particular style, read about it, and look at many pictures to visually understand general characteristics of the style.
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