The Furniture Bible Everything You Need to Know to Identify, Restore and Care for Furniture |
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Author:
| Pourny, Christophe |
As told to:
| Renzi, Jen |
Foreword by:
| Stewart, Martha |
ISBN: | 978-1-57965-535-8 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2014 |
Publisher: | Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Workman |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $69.99 |
Book Description:
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One part
Joy of Cooking, one part
Domino magazine, this is the all-new furniture bible. Unlike the snoozy (and generally black-and-white) how-to-refinish-your-furniture workbooks currently on the market, this is a stealth technical manual embedded in the context of a seductive, full-color coffee-table book. The heart of the book is an accessible primer on Christophe's favorite...
More DescriptionOne part Joy of Cooking, one part Domino magazine, this is the all-new furniture bible.
Unlike the snoozy (and generally black-and-white) how-to-refinish-your-furniture workbooks currently on the market, this is a stealth technical manual embedded in the context of a seductive, full-color coffee-table book.
The heart of the book is an accessible primer on Christophe's favorite techniques--ceruse, vernis anglais, water gilding--with step-by-step how-tos for achieving them yourself.
Readers will learn about wax finishes, oil finishes, and lacquers, as well as effects to create with paint, metal, and gilding.
Examples are shown on a wide range of furniture--a table, a desk, a hutch, a plant stand, a simple chest of drawers.
Readers will learn about furniture construction, from medieval times to the present; how to identify types of wood; and how to distinguish a Louis XIV chair from a Louis XV one.
They will come away knowing how to care for their leather and properly clean hardware; fix a broken leg and replace felt pads; distinguish a real antique from a fake; and make their own polishes at home.