EAN: 9788027294466

ANCIENT AND MODERN FURNITURE AND WOODWORK - JOH...

This brilliant work by English writer on crafts and furniture  John Hungerford Pollen
(1820-1902)  is an interesting study of ancient and modern furniture and woodwork. He carefully
reviews them and carries us back to the days in which these pieces of artistic furniture were
made. This work makes the reader familiar to the taste and techniques  the habits and the needs
of those olden ages which eventually leads to a comparison between the furniture and woodwork
of that era and the modern times. Contents include: Furniture Ancient and Modern Antique: Egypt
Nineveh and Greece The Romans Byzantine Art The Middle Ages The Fifteenth Century The
Renaissance in Italy Renaissance in England  Flanders  France  Germany  and Spain Tudor and
Stuart Styles Furniture of the Eighteenth Century Changes of Taste and Style Appendix: Names of
the Designers of Woodwork and Makers of Furniture

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