Hot Sale Phaidon Design Classics (3 Volume Set) (Pts. 1, 2 & 3)

Phaidon Design Classics (3 Volume Set) (Pts. 1, 2 & 3)

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Hot Sale Phaidon Design Classics (3 Volume Set) (Pts. 1, 2 & 3)

Specifications Sales Rank: 368230 in Books Brand: Brand: Phaidon Press Published on: 2006-04-13 Original language:English Number of items: 3 Dimensions: 8.90" h x10.80" w x17.40" l,11.64 pounds Binding: Hardcover 3300 pages Used Book in Good Condition

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Hot Sale Phaidon Design Classics (3 Volume Set) (Pts. 1, 2 & 3)

The three-volume book is an authoritative collection of design clics, which will include 999 industrially manufactured products, cfully selected by a group of experts. From cars to furniture, from tablew to cameras, from everyday objects to aeroplanes, this breadth of clic design has never before been collated. These volumes will be the sourcebooks on design from the early 1800's to the present, bringing together patents, prototypes, old advers, original drawings, images showing the process of manufacture, as well as r archival photographs. Over fifty authors ranging from designers to curators, critics, and academics, have contributed with short texts for each objects, providing detailed research and precise information.

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Hot Sale Conservation of Furniture (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology)

Conservation of Furniture (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology)

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Hot Sale Conservation of Furniture (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology)

Specifications Sales Rank: 3432554 in Books Published on: 2003-10-17 Original language:English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 1.54" h x7.42" w x10.16" l,1.41 pounds Binding: Hardcover 840 pages

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Hot Sale Conservation of Furniture (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology)

This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory with practice to show the principles which govern interaction between wooden objects, the environmental and conservation treatments and the factors which need to be taken into account to arrive at acceptable solutions to conservation problems.

The practical knowledge and experience of a team of conservators active in the field bought together with theoretical and reference material from diverse sources and unified within a systematic framework. Specialist conservators from related disciplines cover diverse materials often incorporated into furniture.

* Unique text provides information and guidance on the full range of a professional furniture conservator's work
* Benefit from the knowledge of an international team of experts
* Comprehensive coverage of methodology is applicable to a wide variety of cirstances

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Hot Sale Libraries and Learning Resource Centres

Libraries and Learning Resource Centres

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Hot Sale Libraries and Learning Resource Centres

Specifications Sales Rank: 6010299 in Books Published on: 2001-12-03 Original language:English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: .81" h x8.80" w x11.16" l,2.43 pounds Binding: Hardcover 248 pages

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Hot Sale Libraries and Learning Resource Centres

This comprehensive reference examines the changing role and design of library buildings, using a critical examination of recent examples from around the world.

The authors, who represent the views of the architect and the client, outline the history and changing typology of the library. They examine the new national, public, academic and specialist libraries using numerous international examples including Sri Lanka, Vancouver, Johannesburg, Paris and London. New design advice and technical data is presented to illustrate the many approaches that designers have taken in creating a building with many diverse functions. The book concludes with speculations about the future of the library as a place for storing, reflecting upon and exchanging knowledge.

Libraries undergoing fundamental change as new technology liberates the library from its dependence upon the written word. Increasingly libraries seen as learning resource centres with a smooth interface between computer-based access and traditional book and journal material.

* Comprehensive technical coverage of library planning & design gives a complete overview
* Excellent author team representing both architects and library services to give unbiased and informed opinions
* International case studies show the theory in practice

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Hot Sale British Campaign Furniture: Elegance Under Canvas, 1740-1914

British Campaign Furniture: Elegance Under Canvas, 1740-1914

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Hot Sale British Campaign Furniture: Elegance Under Canvas, 1740-1914

Specifications Sales Rank: 1489881 in Books Brand: Brand: Harry N. Abrams Published on: 2001-04-01 Original language:English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: .95" h x8.74" w x11.38" l,2.85 pounds Binding: Hardcover 232 pages Used Book in Good Condition

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Hot Sale British Campaign Furniture: Elegance Under Canvas, 1740-1914

The first-ever book on the suites of travelling furniture used by British soldiers over one-and-a-half centuries. For the travelling British soldier, campaign furniture - chairs, desks, and other items, brought the comfort and civility of home to life under canvas. Made to be carried on the march and embled on site, campaign furniture reached an aesthetic apex in 18th- and 19th-century England.

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Hot Sale Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design

Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design

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Hot Sale Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design

Specifications Sales Rank: 1338382 in Books Published on: 2001-02-15 Released on: 2000-05-01 Original language:English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 1.00" h x11.50" w x8.60" l,.33 pounds Binding: Hardcover 288 pages

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Hot Sale Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design

Jo Mielziner (1901-1976) was an acclaimed scenic designer of the American theatre. Over five decades his cer spanned the flowering of the modern theatre in the USA, and he designed many of its most famous productions, including "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Death of a Salesman", "Guys and Dolls" and "Carousel". He worked with a roster of great playwrights, directors and producers on a staggering total of 260 shows, many of them theatrical premieres, but also including ballets, operas and motion pictures. He pioneered many concepts of design - such as the capturing of a visual metaphor for the production -that taken for granted today. His influence for succeeding generations has been enormous. This study covers his life and work and is illustrated with sketches and fully-rendered designs.

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Hot Sale Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director

Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director

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Hot Sale Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director

Specifications Sales Rank: 5554814 in Books Published on: 1966-07 Original language:English Number of items: 1 Binding: Hardcover

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Hot Sale Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director

It was Thomas Chippendale's book of designs, The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, which was to ensure his lasting fame. It was the first attempt by a cabinetmaker to produce such an ambitious publication, similar to fashionable arch itects, surveying the whole repertoire of contemp orary furniture styles and intended as an advertis

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