Furniture & Furnishings
Subtitle: A Visual Guide
By: Antony White, Bruce Robertson.
Contributors: Robertson, Bruce, ARCA.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Design Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Furniture; Furniture design; Furniture -- Styles
Other titles: Furniture and furnishings.
Description: As Furniture & Furnishings examines and illustrates all the major items and objects of modern furniture with more than 1400 text entries and 1000 key line illustrations. The text and illustrations complement each other, so that the reader can begin with either the object or the word. All the main types of each object of furniture are featured, together with their methods of construction, their parts and their decoration, both formal and surface. Even more information is provided by an illustrated timechart of furniture periods, brief biographies of 70 furniture designers, and descriptions of more than 100 furniture styles.