Stucco and Decorative Plasterwork in Europe (ICON EDITIONS)

Arts & Photography

BEARD, Geoffrey

Architecture

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The National Trust Book of English Furniture

Penguin??Books

This book is part of a series of "National Trust" books that deal with room settings in which the objects are placed. The individual elements of an interior rather than its general layout - the fireplaces, chimney pieces, floors, ceilings, cornices, doors and panelling - are examined. It is in these areas, argues the author, that the achievements of England's craftsmen can be most clearly seen, for example, in the intricate wood-carving of the 17th century and the magnificent Stucco work of the 18th century, as well as in the more modest plasterwork of the Victorian family house. As with the other books in this series, the more modest houses will be dealt with as well as the grand.

The National Trust Book of English Interiors

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Work of Grinling Gibbons

This magnificently illustrated book documents the career of the virtuoso seventeenth-century sculptor, the finest woodcarver ever to appear in Europe. Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) combined in his work naturalism - it was said he could carve a leaf barely thicker than the original - with a lively and graceful composition that is unmistakably Baroque. His carvings - in wood and stone - are to be found in St. Paul's Cathedral, Hampton Court, Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace, Blenheim Palace, and in other country houses and churches throughout England and Scotland.

The Work of Grinling Gibbons

Individual Artists

University of Chicago Press

This richly illustrated book is a history of the upholstery trade in Britain over three hundred years. It surveys the changing styles that affected this art form, the crafts-men who made the furniture and the kings and courtiers who purchased it, and the events—from coronations to funerals—at which upholstery played a leading role. Geoffrey Beard, an eminent authority on the lives and work methods of craftsmen in the decorative arts, brings his wide knowledge of the historical background of furniture making and usage in England to bear on this new branch of furniture history. Drawing on the texts of 44 important contemporary manuscripts, he moves chronologically, setting the activities of upholsterers and their patrons against the wider panoply of English history. He discusses, for example, the early upholstery done on the instructions of the important agency controlling work for the crown, the Great Wardrobe; the archaic traditions of the London craft guilds that grounded the upholsterer’s work prior to the restoration of Charles II in 1660; the extensive refurbishing of royal palaces after 1660; the sudden rise in popularity of needleworked upholstery in the beginning of the eighteenth century; the change from rococo style to neoclassicism in the 1760s; the introduction of Egyptian motifs in the early nineteenth century; and the subsequent change to the ornamental excesses of Gothic, Louis Quatorze, or one of the fashionable revivals. With its 376 illustrations, 220 of which are in color, this volume is an authoritative and gorgeous chronicle of the production of fine furnishings in England.

Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530-1840 (Bard Studies in the Decorative Arts)

Bard Graduate Center

Stucco and decorative plasterwork in Europe

THAMES HUDSON LTD

Home Improvement & Design

Viking Adult

Dr Geoffrey Beard's researches into the craftsmen who worked in the great English country houses are drawn together here and provide general readers with the essential facts about the interior of the historic house between 1500-1900. Wherever possible Dr Beard cites examples from the 200 or so properties open to visitors that are administered by the National Trust in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He writes not only about the interiors at Hardwick Hall, Sudbury Hall and Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, Petworth House, West Sussex and Saltram in Devon, but of those at such smaller richly decorated settings as Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, Hanbury Hall, Hereford and Worcester and Pownend, Cumbria. He also discusses the interiors of many other historic houses, smaller vernacular houses, terrace and back-to-back houses.

The National Trust Book of the English House Interior

Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in England, 1660-1820

Bloomsbury Books

The Work of John Vanbrugh

History & Criticism

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

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