CLASSICAL FURNITURE

192pp ISBN 0810931885 David Linley, who specializes in creating fine furniture in a modern classical idiom, here offers an illustrated introduction to classical furniture from the viewpoint of a modern master of style. He surveys classicism from its origins in ancient Greece and its rebirth in Renaissance Italy to its golden age in 18th-century France, England and America. He then traces the gradual spread of classical ideas through Europe in the centuries after Palladio. He has also assembled here a directory of furniture, and indispensable pattern book of classical designs, that covers the evolution of styles in chairs and tables, cabinets and screens, sofas and daybeds, etc. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover).