Classic Chinese Furniture of the Qing Dynasty
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Hardcover. Folio. Cloth in dust jacket. Slight discoloration to dj. Else, overall, clean and sound. Near Fine. ISBN 0856674656.
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Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style
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For more than a century, historians have been searching for the true Samuel McIntire (1757-1811) and have been trying to define his role in shaping the cultural heritage of Salem, Machusetts. Trained as a carpenter by his father, McIntire taught himself the art of architectural drawing and went on to design scores of public and private buildings in Salem, long celebrated for their elegance and beauty. After 1790, however, he made his living primarily as a wood carver, providing ornamental decoration for many of the buildings he designed as well as for furniture and more than two dozen sailing vessels. McIntire was also called upon to carve portrait busts and even a model of a historic pear, commissions that brought him into the realm of academic sculpture."Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style" is the first book to examine the full range of his carving cer and to put it into a broader perspective in terms of the work of his contemporaries and other decorative traditions of the Federal period. The book draws on the remarkable collections of the Peabody Es Museum, in Salem, Machusetts, which owns most of McIntire's architectural drawings and several of his most important buildings, as well as furniture in public and private collections from around the country. Lahikainen presents a critical ysis of McIntire's carving style and questions some long-held attributions that shed new light on his role as a furniture maker and designer."Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style" accompanies a major exhibition of McIntire's work, curated by Lahikainen, which will open at the Peabody Es Museum in October 2007. This book is not an exhibition catalogue; rather, it is an in-depth examination of the works by this master carver that will be required reading for anyone interested in Federal-era design, decorative art, and architecture.
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Chinese Influence on European Garden Structures
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The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour
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This study traces in detail the English origins of an important American cabinetmaker. Drawing on eight years of study in English and American archives, Robert Mussey presents a detailed biography of John Seymour and his son Thomas, makers of some of the finest Federal-period furniture in Boston.
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Moritz Gottschalk, 1892-1931: Dollhouses - Doll Rooms - Kitchens - Stores - Furniture--Reprints of Original Catalog Photographs with Historical Documentation
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The Moritz Gottschalk firm of Germany was the premiere dollhouse maker during the late 19th and early 20th century, but collectors have never had a reliable way to identify their dollhouses. Marianne and Jurgen Cieslik, the noted German doll Historians, changing that as they have located the original factory illustrations of Gottschalk catalouges from the years 1892-1931, and presenting them in there latest book, Moritz Gottschalk. More than 600 authentic archival illustrations of Moritz Gottschalk dollhouses presented, and they conveniently arranged in order of production.
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin
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Important reference on natural fragrance materials!
Do you have a pion for natural essential oils? This is a must-have book.
Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin contains practical descriptions of available materials, their origin, production and processing, appearance, odor and flavor type, evaluation, application and availability with brief notes on their main consuents, replacements and most common adulterants.
This unique treatise is divided into two parts. The first is a clear set of definitions and processing methods that used to isolate the natural products described in the book. The second part, which is the meat of this text, is a series of more than 500 monographs on crude and processed perfume and flavor materials of natural origin including both vegetable and animal-based products. Examples of materials contained in this text items of r usage such as agarwood oil, flouve isolates and civet products for the perfumer and horseradish oil, lemon pegrain oil to tagetes oil for the flavorist. In addition all of the commonly used natural materials can be found in the text. An appendix contains a table on the tonnage of world production over the 1955 1959 period for a number of important raw materials. Also found is a series of 88 groupings listing clification of aromas for the perfumer and warm-woody, balsamic-y-notes for the flavorist to carnation-like for the perfumer and fresh peppery and warm for the flavorist.
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