Furniture Restoration: Step-By-Step Tips and Techniques for Professional Results
Contemplating a career in furniture restoration? The Marxes' extraordinarily detailed instructions will either excite readers or completely turn them off. No question, restoration is a skill few learn easily; the required time and patience appeal to those completely enamored of fixing, repairing, and conserving antiques. In numerous sidebars, the authors define such terms as verdigris and gesso or help you to compile a specific tool kit to solve particular damage issues, whether veneer repair or original color detection. Pictures are lavish, illustrating many "befores" as well as "afters." The instructions, although easy to follow, require major competencies and clear understanding of different furniture styles and periods. It is, in short, a book to be pored over again and again, the ultimate test in re-realizing a thing of beauty. Jacobs, Barbara