| 1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs Contributor(s): Denonvilliers Co (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486412237 ISBN-13: 9780486412238 Publisher: Dover Publications
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: March 2001 Annotation: Invaluable source of information for art historians, craftspeople, dealers, collectors, and preservationists includes hundreds of finely detailed illustrations of garden seats, candelabras, moldings, gates, balcony grilles, vases, crosses, funerary ornaments and monuments, finials, doorknobs and many other ornamental features. A rich source of inspiration and royalty-free graphics, as well, for commercial artists and designers. Click for more in this series: Dover Pictorial Archives |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | Clip Art - Design | Decorative Arts |
| Dewey: 739.474 |
| LCCN: 00058962 |
| Series: Dover Pictorial Archives |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 9.36" W x 12.08" L (0.76 lbs) 96 pages |
| Features: Illustrated, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 208 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This splendid archive of decorative ironwork designs, painstakingly reprinted from a rare French volume, includes 1,100 illustrations of elaborate motifs used to enhance such diverse architectural elements as doorway and balcony grilles, gates, garden seats, door panels, columns, and funeral monuments. Among the illustrations are intricate, finely detailed images of diminutive rosettes, hat hooks, doorknobs, and clotheshorses; iron fencing for cemetery plots; water fountains, candelabra, metal bench frames, garden urns, gargoyles, umbrella stands, finials, and crosses; designs for friezes and moldings; and many other types of decorate antique ironwork. All items are identified by English translations of the original French captions. An invaluable source of information for art historians, craftsmen, dealers, collectors, preservationists--anyone interested in historic ironwork--this magnificent treasury of copyright-free graphics will be welcomed as well by commercial artists, designers, and craftspeople as a rich source of visual inspiration and immediately usable art. |
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