Furniture design Books
August Editions Robert Wilson: Chairs
Book SynopsisThis unprecedented angle on the oeuvre of Robert Wilson reveals the importance of chair design for his cross-medium art For American experimental theater stage director and playwright Robert Wilson (born 1941), theater is a totality of visual, textual and performative mediums. Wilson has incorporated furniture designs into his scenography since his earliest productions in the 1960s. "In almost all of my plays, there is a chair specially designed," he said. "Often, the chairs are much like an actor." Wilson’s chairs, with their frequently referential names (the Kafka Chair, Queen Victoria Chairs, the Mondrian Chair), assume expanded significance as the surviving artifacts of each performance. The works in this publication range from 1969 to 2011, from the stainless steel mesh Parzival Sofa (1987) to the painted wood Clementine Hunter Rocker (2011). Wilson’s practice as a designer is illuminated by his practice as a collector, with pieces in materials ranging from wood, bronze and steel to taxidermied legs, tempered glass and neon. This publication includes several works never previously exhibited.
£40.80
Lannoo Publishers Wunderkammer: An Exotic Journey Through Time
Book SynopsisWunderkammern are showing up everywhere these days. Design webshops, expos, interior design stores: they all try to bring back the memory of the century-old tradition of Wunderkammer, or 'the Cabinet of Curiosities'. This book is a Wunderkammer in itself, showcasing the most beautiful exotica, which explorers and adventurous merchants brought back from all over the world for rich collectors. Be amazed by beautiful seashells, stuffed animals, sculptured ostrich eggs, botanical drawings, 'dragons' preserved in formaldehyde, and bewildering Indiana Jones-like stories. A fascinating New World presented itself to them, and in this book, you'll see it through their eyes.
£23.96
Yale University Press English Furniture 1680 1760 English Needlework
Book SynopsisBrings together a superb collection of over 650 detailed examples English furniture and needlework from 1600 to 1760
£190.00
Spazio Leone Riccardo Dalisi
£34.20
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration
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£25.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry
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£25.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Age
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£25.99
Amberley Publishing Street Furniture
Book SynopsisA fascinating journey through the history of street furniture in the UK, written by a leading authority on the topic. Milestones, sign posts, benches and lamp posts are all included alongside fascinating obscure examples.
£14.39
Museum of Modern Art Frank Lloyd Wright Broadacre City Project
Book SynopsisThe latest volume in MoMA?s One on One series: a deep dive into the architectural giant?s arcadian vision of the modern habitatWhen American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867?1959) proposed Broadacre City (1929?35), he advanced an astonishing claim: that the metropolis was obsolete. In its place, Broadacre was to be a ?Usonian? synthesis, an unprecedented landscape unsullied by convention or history, consisting simply of ?architecture and acreage.? With its low-density carpet of small plots, predominantly one- and two-story buildings, and seemingly infinite territory, the ruralized landscape of Broadacre would sustain new levels of individuality and freedom, far more democratic than a traditional metropolis could ever support.This slim paperback reader, the latest volume in MoMA?s One on One series, is penned by Juliet Kinchin, a former curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She guides the reader through Wright?s conception of Broadacre and its theoretical underpinnings and implications. Reproductions of Wright?s preparatory sketches and photographs of his model city are interspersed throughout Kinchin?s account.
£13.49
Laurence King Publishing Furniture Design: An Introduction to Development,
Book SynopsisFurniture Design is a comprehensive guide and resource for students and furniture designers. As well as discussing pioneering contemporary and historical designs, it also provides substantive answers to designers'' questions about function, materials, manufacture and sustainability, integrating guidance on all of these subjects – particularly material and manufacturing properties – in one accessible and structured volume. Many leading contemporary furniture designers from around the world are included, with case studies carefully selected to highlight the importance of both material and manufacture-led design processes. The book is also intended to provide an insight into furniture design for those considering a college education in product and industrial design.
£28.00
Headline Publishing Group Design Monograph: Starck
Book SynopsisA design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of groundbreaking work.With his vivid imagination, wit and flair, Philippe Starck has transformed everyday objects into icons of modern design, heralding in the democratic design movement that has influenced what we buy and how we live. Among instantly recognizable classics such as the long-legged Juicy Salif lemon squeezer and the much imitated Sissi Lamp, Starck has created some of the world's most ground-breaking furniture, interiors, hotels and architecture, all of which are celebrated in this curated selection of images, accompanied by a critical essay of his life and work.
£13.49
Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd The Homes That Shaped Us
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£40.50
Design Museum Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow
Book SynopsisThe twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that technology might free us from home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are the smart homes of today the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has ‘home’ proved resistant to radical change? Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow –accompanying a major Design Museum exhibition of the same title–explores a number of different attitudes toward domestic life, tracing the social and technological developments that have driven change in the home. It proposes that we are already living in yesterday’s tomorrow, just not in the way anyone predicted. This book begins with a lavishly illustrated catalogue portraying the ‘home futures’ of the twentieth century and beyond, from the work of Ettore Sottsass and Joe Colombo to Google’s recent forays into the smart home. The catalogue is followed by a reader consisting of newly commissioned essays by writers such as Dan Hill and Justin McGuirk, which explore the changes in the domestic realm in relation to space, technology, society, economy and psychology.
£16.96
Dent-De-Leone Inventory Works
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£40.50
Editions Skira Paris Sottsass (Bilingual edition): Poltronova
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£32.00
Lars Muller Publishers Hard Life
Book SynopsisBy what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appears in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an instinct to carve out the essential with the slenderest of means brought to objects that made life both livable and meaningful to a pre-industrial society. The objects photographed and described by designer Jasper Morrison may be appreciated both for their beauty and for the example they set of design at its purest.
£31.50
Niggli Verlag Nomadic Furniture 3.0: New Liberated Living?
Book SynopsisInfluenced by the currently very popular do-it-yourself movement, the contemporary design scene is increasingly shaped by a creative fusion of production and consumption. When it comes to the development of a self-made furniture culture, this book project combines for the first time design history research and consumerism theory with numerous historical and contemporary construction instructions and interior design recommendations. Across five chapters, design history and everyday culture are vividly and closely examined. What are their origins? Which media and channels are used to pass on experiences and practical instructions? Who exchanges in-formation with whom and under what circumstances? And what has changed since the advent of the era of digital modernity?
£31.96
Niggli Verlag The Thonet Brand: A Look at its Graphic Design
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£23.96
Hatje Cantz Verlag Gerald Summers Marjorie Butcher
Book SynopsisGerald Summers (18991967) is one of the most important furniture designers of the twentieth century. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and worked as an engineer before beginning his career as a designer. In 1931, together with his partner Marjorie Butcher (19091996), he opened the company Makers of Simple Furniture in London. For almost a decade, the company produced a wide range of furniture for the modern home. In 1940, wartime exigencies brought an end to the enterprise, whereupon they turned their energies to Gerald Summers Ltd, a supplier of engineering parts. Martha Deese is an authority on Gerald Summers. She earned a master's degree in decorative art history from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum / Parsons School of Design, New York, and worked for three decades as an administrator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her groundbreaking 1992 article published in the Journal of Design History remains the definitive work on the designer.
£48.00
Vitra Design Museum Plastic: Remaking Our World: Remaking Our World
Book SynopsisPlastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material. Originally associated with convenience, progress, even revolution, today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is everywhere, yet most conspicuous as waste and as a key factor in the global environmental crisis. This book examines the success story of plastic in the twentieth century and at the same time presents the different discourses on how we should manage the waste the material produces and also find solutions that take into account its entire life cycle in the future. Mark Miodownik, Susan Freinkel, and Nanjala Nyabola each contribute an essay that sheds light on the history of plastics from 1850 to today. A material-rich visual chronology illustrates how consumers’ perception of plastics has changed over the decades. Brief descriptions of a selection of 50 objects examine the importance of plastics for material culture. Reprints of fundamental texts about the history of plastics—for example by Alexander Parkes and Roland Barthes—provide a context from the history of ideas. The book reflects the current discourse and state of research on plastic with numerous individual interviews and panel discussions that were held with designers, representatives from industry, researchers, and environmental activists. Underpinning these conversations are comprehensive data visualizations on plastic production and consumption, recycling.
£40.00
Apartamento Publishing S.L.v A Lot of Work
£42.30
Strandberg Publishing Watercolours by Hans J. Wegner
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£32.00
Rizzoli Molteni Mondo
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£56.25
Set Margins' publications Cross Cultural Chairs: 8 Chairs from 8 Countries:
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£23.75
Abrams Books Sarah Sherman Samuel
£36.00
MagCirc Solutions Openhouse
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£17.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd MidCentury Modern Furniture
Book SynopsisDominic Bradbury is a journalist and writer specializing in architecture and design. He is the author of many books on the subject, including New Nordic Houses, The Iconic House, The Iconic American House, Vertical Living, Mid-Century Modern Design, Modernist Design Complete, The Iconic Interior, Mediterranean Modern and New Natural Home, all published by Thames & Hudson.Trade Review'A handsome and authoritative compilation of postwar furniture design from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s ... A thorough and entertaining record of an important period in design history' - Interior Design'Like a modern-day Sears & Roebuck wish book for collectors, this hefty coffee-table book features more than 450 big, full-color photographs that capture a comprehensive survey of furniture from the period... Equal parts inspirational and envy-inducing, this book is sure to delight even the most discerning collectors' - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'Mid-century modern is hot... An overview of the impactful era with more than 450 colorful illustrations as well as both histories and other little-known facts about both well and lesser-known design icons' - The Detroit News'[A] stately compendium ... Bradbury explains how pop art and technological innovations informed these pieces ... Furniture porn for devotees of modern design, but also be a dandy introduction for casual admirers of the style' - Shelf Awareness'While numerous books surveying midcentury modern style have appeared over the years, this volume is specifically for the increasing collector’s market in midcentury modern design, focusing on each piece of furniture as an object of formal invention, manufacturing intelligence, and material innovation' - Aspire Design and Home'A highly engaging and informative book with vivid pictures that celebrates an era of unforgettable and influential style... Will likely delight both fans of interior design and art history buffs, but it’s also accessible to the casual but curious reader' - Library Journal'This visual encyclopedia is full of glorious surprises, from Europe to the Americas, Brazil and Japan. Chairs and chaises, tables and beds, cabinets and desks are grouped thematically, with lively texts explaining each entry. Every designer and collector will make at least a few discoveries …The diversity and creativity of this selection engenders a sense of awe' - The World of InteriorsTable of ContentsIntroduction Chairs Armchairs • Dining Chairs • Occasional Chairs • Task Chairs Chaises Longues Chaises Longues • Recliners • Rocking Chairs Stools Low Stools • Bar Stools Sofas Sofas • Benches • Modular Seating Tables Dining Tables • Coffee Tables • Occasional Tables Consoles & Credenzas Consoles • Credenzas • Cabinets • Sideboards • Bars Desks & Storage Desks • Storage • Shelves • Bookcases Beds & Bedside Beds • Daybeds • Night Stands Ways of Making Wood • Plywood • Plastics • Steel Directory of Designers Bibliography
£45.00
Taschen GmbH Breuer
Book SynopsisIn 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining “form-givers of the 20th century.” Today, Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, color, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth. In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer’s complete career through some of his most influential projects and ideas, from his landmark tubular furniture to the MoMA Research House to his innovation of “binuclear” housing, splitting living and sleeping areas into separate wings. Along the way, we follow Hungarian-born Breuer’s journey to international acclaim, with featured projects from Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and across the United States contributing to his global status as a modernist maestro.
£14.25
Thames & Hudson Ltd Furniture in Architecture
Book SynopsisAidan Walker is an experienced cabinetmaker, editor of The Encyclopedia of Wood, and former editorial director of most of the UK's professional design journals. Tanya Harrod is one of the most highly regarded craft historians working today. Her book The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century (1999) won the Historians of British Art book award in 2000.Table of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Places of Worship • 2. Places of Work and Leisure • 3. Places of Learning • Bibliography
£38.40
Richard Dennis ERCOL Furniture in the Making
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£23.75
Gestalten A House in Japan
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£56.25
GMC Publications Pallet Craft: 20 Creative Makes Using Wooden
Book SynopsisIf you like the natural, rustic look in your home and want to make furniture and home accessories to suit, then look no further: this comprehensive, step-by-step guide tells you all you need to know to make a range of stunning pieces for inside and out using wood sourced from pallets. Pallet wood is versatile, great to work with, readily available, doesn't break the bank and lends itself to a myriad of projects. The 20 projects within this book are achievable for complete DIY novices all that's required is a few basic tools, some pallet wood and a bit of free time to work through the steps. You'll be amazed at what you can create from so few materials in such little time. Concise step-by-step instructions and clear photographs guide you from start to finish. There's also plenty of advice on sourcing pallet wood, including for free, instructions on how to dismantle pallets safely and easily, plus a tools and other materials section to make sure you have everything you need to hand. It couldn't be simpler! AUTHOR: Emma Basden spent the early part of her career working in property and has always had a good eye for what makes a home desirable and unique. She has worked for the BBC as a presenter of various property programmes and now owns a boutique B&B in Sussex and runs a weddings and events business. Emma has poured her creative flair into these ventures and can be often found making unusual and beautiful things out of pallet wood to decorate her stylish guest accommodation or as wonderful, inexpensive props for weddings and events. SALES POINTS: . 20 step-by-step projects for indoor and outdoor pieces . Pallet DIY is an environmentally-friendly, inexpensive and trendy craft . Projects are suitable for DIY novices, using simple tools and techniques . Projects include: garden corner sofa, boot rack, coffee table, children's teepee, bed headboard, mirror, dog bed and decorative star 230 colour photographs
£14.24
Taschen GmbH Industrial Design A–Z
Book SynopsisIf you take even the slightest interest in the design of your toothbrush, the history behind your washing machine, or the evolution of the telephone, you’ll take an even greater interest in this completely updated edition of Industrial Design A–Z. Tracing the evolution of industrial design from the Industrial Revolution to the present day, the book bursts with synergies of form and function that transform our daily experience. From cameras to kitchenware, Lego to Lamborghini, we meet the individual designers, the global businesses, and above all the genius products that become integrated into even the smallest details of our lives. Alongside star designers like Marc Newson and Philippe Starck and major global brands like Braun and Apple, lesser-known and newcomer entries such as Brompton Bicycles and Enercon wind turbines attest to product design’s restless pace, as well as to today’s most pressing challenges and priorities to which it must turn its creative invention. Trade Review“This is an excellent study, well-presented and with beautiful photography.” * Antique Dealer Newspaper *
£17.00
The Crowood Press Ltd Art of Making a Harpsichord
Book Synopsis* A detailed exploration of how historical harpsichords were made, with instructions on how the modern reader can do the same. * Comprehensively illustrated with 400 photos and line drawings * Written by an internationally respected musical instrument museum curator and instrument researcher with considerable harpsichord-making experience.Trade ReviewOriginally from Western Australia, Darryl Martin moved to the United Kingdom in the 1980s to work as a harpsichord maker. Increasingly interested in the study of antique examples, he pursued this research as a PhD (awarded in 2003) and since 2004 has been curator of the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, which is home to the celebrated Raymond Russell and Rodger Mirrey keyboard instrument collections. A regular writer for major journals and a speaker at international conferences, Darryl Martin is also active as a lecturer and postgraduate supervisor at the University of Edinburgh.
£59.50
The History Press Ltd Roman Furniture
Book SynopsisAccording to Roman law, ''furniture'' was described as ''any apparatus belonging to the head of the household consisting of articles intended for everyday use''. Under this ambiguous description numerous household artefacts could be considered as items of furniture. However, in this first general book on Roman furniture to be published in English, a more modern view of what constitutes furniture is taken. Familiar household pieces are investigated using evidence from art, literature and archaeology. Examples will be taken from all over the empire, but there will be special emphasis on furniture used in the north-west provinces.
£20.62
MT - University of Pennsylvania Press The Cabinetmakers Account
£45.00
Workman Publishing Spruce: A Step-by-Step Guide to Upholstery and
Book SynopsisDiscover the joys of upholstery and bring new life to your worn-out furniture. With a few basic tools, an eye for color, and some ingenuity, you can customize your home with fabrics and textures that reflect your unique personality. This comprehensive guide features more than 900 photographs and includes five projects designed to teach you all you need to know to reupholster any piece of furniture. You’ll soon be confidently stripping down old sofas, stuffing sagging ottomans, and revamping chairs with your own distinctive style.
£25.65
Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd Furniture Flips: 25 Bright and Vibrant Painted
Book SynopsisJoanne Condon takes you step-by-step through the process of furniture flipping, from choosing the right piece to using colour, pattern and detail to bring new life to an item. The perfect antidote to unsustainable, mass-produced ‘fast furniture’, flipping can take many forms: applying paint or wallpaper, replacing handles and hardware, experimenting with colour and adding pattern and texture. First of all, Joanne explains everything you need to get started, including essential equipment and how to prepare old furniture for painting. Next, you will find 25 projects, organized by difficulty level. Beginners can start out with simple stencils and colour blocking. Intermediate upcyclers can try their hand at cross stitch on a cane-backed chair. And confident furniture flippers can take on more advanced projects, such as transforming a wardrobe into a pantry or creating a distressed paint effect. Throughout the book, Joanne presents easy-to-follow instructions with photographs to guide you at every step of the way.
£15.00
Dent-De-Leone JB Blunk Ed 4
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£999.99
Editions Flammarion Fragonard
Book SynopsisAgnès Costa and her sisters run the family perfume house Fragonard, founded by her grandfather in Grasse. Specializing in interior design, Alain Stella is the author of Historic Houses of Paris (2019), Jacques Garcia: Twenty Years of Passion (2023), Jacques Garcia: Villa Elena (2022), and Pierre Frey: A Family Legacy of Passion and Creativity (2023), all published by Flammarion.
£40.00
Die Gestalten Verlag Living to the Max: Opulent Homes and Maximalist
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£40.00
Tuttle Publishing Japanese Woodworking Tools
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£23.63
APE Marti Anson - La Botiga De L' Anson
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£17.10
Yale University Press Ernest Gimson
Book SynopsisTrade Review“. . . explores how [Gimson] adapted his observations of nature into buildings and objects. . . . The book is lavishly illustrated with photos of surviving works alongside Mr. Gimson’s sketches.”—Eve Kahn, New York Times“Excellent...Unearths work by Gimson that is not recorded even in the archives of the SPAB.”—Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph“[An] insightful survey of the life and work of Arts-and-Crafts designer Ernest Gimson”—Clive Aslet, Country Life“In their impeccably researched and engaging new biography, Annette Carruthers, Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe explore in depth Gimson's place at the heart of the handcraft movement that emerged in Britain thanks to the impetus of William Morris and flourished until the First World War”—Roisin Inglesby, Apollo Magazine“Outstanding”—Ancient Monuments Society“Building on its predecessors, Ernest Gimson is now the standard account of his life and achievements, fully worthy of his 2019 centenary.”— Simon Swynfen Jervis, Furniture History Society Newsletter“The authors build on previous scholarship, draw together threads and expand context with admirable thoroughness, bringing it all beautifully into concert...There is scholarly coverage of every context for Gimson’s development, without losing sight of the man himself.”—Lindsey Shaw-Miller, Art History “This book really brings Gimson’s work to a whole new audience and gives him the accolade he deserves.”—Lynne Pardoe, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Magazine“The book is tightly organised and edited, extensively annotated and referenced, and wonderfully illustrated with high-quality colour and monochrome plates. It itself is both beautifully crafted and serviceable: a highly readable, scholarly account of its subject’s life and work.”—Nick Knight, Leicestershire Historian“This comprehensive study...is the product of three authors and it is greatly to their credit that you would not know it from their authoritative and seamless text... As a ‘life and work’ it will not be bettered.”—Julian Holder, Architectural History
£49.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity
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£25.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Enlightenment
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£25.99
Bloomsbury Visual Arts The Art and Furniture of Tommy Simpson
Book SynopsisOscar P. Fitzgerald, PhD is a nationally known historian, author, lecturer, and consultant on American furniture from colonial times to the present. As a member of the faculty of the Smithsonian Institution/George Washington University Decorative Arts and Design History Masters Program, he teaches all the furniture classes He has shared his passion for furniture with audiences nationwide, including a number of certification seminars for appraisers. Recently, he presented a program on identifying Mid-century Modern furniture fakes at the annual conference of the International Society of Appraisers. His latest publication is the definitive American Furniture Designers: 1900-2020.
£52.25
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Jean-Henri Riesener: Cabinetmaker to Louis XVI
Book SynopsisThis first major monograph on cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener traces his life and career, bringing new insights into his business practice, designs and construction techniques. Jean-Henri Riesener (1734–1806) was one of the greatest French cabinetmakers of all time. From humble beginnings as a German immigrant in Paris, he found fame through the delivery of a magnificent roll-top desk to Louis XV in 1769. He went on to become Marie-Antoinette’s favourite cabinetmaker, supplying the queen and the court of Louis XVI with sumptuous furniture of superb quality. Renowned for his exquisite marquetry and refined designs, his pieces were ornamented with spectacular gilt-bronze mounts made by some of the greatest metalworkers in Paris. In the nineteenth century, Riesener’s name became associated with the very best of Louis XVI-period French furniture. His pieces continue to be highly sought after and are found in major museums worldwide. Based on the extensive collections of Riesener furniture in the Wallace Collection, Waddesdon Manor and the Royal Collection, the authors examine the objects and their history, and highlight the changing tastes of the nineteenth-century collectors who acquired so many former French royal pieces. The new illustrations and visual glossary add another important resource for art historians, decorative arts enthusiasts and furniture lovers.Trade ReviewThe first serious Riesener monograph. -- Alexandre Pradère * The Art Newspaper *This authoritative tome is both an enjoyable read as well as a scholarly compilation of original research [...] it is extremely refreshing to be presented with such a clearly written and entirely unapologetic celebration of one of the creative geniuses of the French eighteenth century. This publication would do Watson, Bellaigue and Verlet proud. More, please. -- Wolf Burchard * The Furniture History Society *Table of ContentsThe Riesener, Oeben & Vandercruse families THE CABINETMAKER Jean-Henri Riesener: a portrait sketch Christian Baulez A German in Paris Laura Langelüddecke Jean-Henri Riesener and the business of furniture-making Carolyn Sargentson A question of language: the royal furniture administration’s accounts Lindsay Macnaughton ‘Executed in the taste of painting’: Riesener’s marquetry designs Mia Jackson Jean-Henri Riesener: the portraits Juliet Carey THE COLLECTORS From Versailles to Windsor Castle: George IV and Riesener Rufus Bird Alteration and appropriation: the 4th Marquess of Hertford and the taste for Riesener Helen Jacobsen Riesener and the Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor Ulrich Leben Buying from Britain: the development of a new market Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide THE FURNITURE Works in the Wallace Collection, the Royal Collection & Waddesdon Manor THE MATERIALS & TECHNIQUES Materials and techniques Jürgen Huber Visual glossary Alexander Collins
£42.50