Furniture: World Styles from Classical to Contemporary - Hardcover

Judith Miller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075661340X ISBN 13: 9780756613402

Publisher: DK, 2005

Synopsis

A comprehensive reference spanning some three thousand years of design provides more than 3,500 full-color photographs and descriptions of furniture representing every style and form, along with an overview of decorative motifs from key periods, profiles of important designers and craftsmen, a study of important movements in furniture design, and more.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Miller's expert knowledge and advice is regularly featured in newspapers and magazines, including the London Evening Standard and BBC Homes & Antiques. She is founder of the new DK Antiques and Collectables Price Guides, and the DK Collector's Guide series. Her television work includes The House Detectives, The Antiques Trail and It's Your Bid. Judith Miller lives in North London.

From Booklist:

*Starred Review* Marry a well-established subject-matter expert to a publisher recognized for its lavish four-color and educational tomes, and the honeymoon will last forever. Antiques maven and collector Miller talks all about furniture in what could easily be dubbed the best reference book of 2005. Twelve information-packed chapters divide and conquer, starting with 4000 B.C.E. to 1600 C.E and ending with postcontemporary and modern in 1970 to the present. There is nary a second to pause and linger: page after page describes the period, its defining elements of style, and its famous artisans and books and offers historical time lines and a collection of sample chairs, tables, case pieces, desks, and the like. The 3,000 photographs are superb, each with brief description, date of manufacture, dimensions, provenance (when known), occasional price (from $200 to more than $450,000), and sometimes the dealer code. More than enough education to prompt an even larger stampede of collectors. Useful addresses, further reading, dealer codes, and glossary are appended. Barbara Jacobs
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About this edition

• Publisher: DK
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 075661340X
• ISBN 13: 9780756613402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560