Masterpieces of Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings

Verna Cook Salomonsky

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Dover Publications Inc.
14 January 2016

Art & Architecture; Decorative wood & metalwork

This well-known reference work has been consulted by generations of collectors, curators, dealers, historians, and craftsmen, and it remains in use decades after its initial publication. Photographs and measured drawings of the most striking furniture pieces of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries constitute the major part of the book; the accompanying text indicates stylistic features and developments, prototypes, types of wood, function, and location of the original. Selected mainly from collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, the objects include chests, tables, chairs, dressing tables, desks, highboys, commodes, couches, and other furniture. Periods and styles include Colonial American, Duncan Phyfe, Windsor, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Chippendale, Louis XIV, eighteenth-century Dutch, sixteenth-century Italian, and representatives of other eras. The book's most outstanding features are the measured drawings for each piece of furniture. Accurate to the nearest 1/16th of an inch, these drawings are especially valuable for woodworkers creating detailed replicas.

By: Verna Cook Salomonsky
Imprint: Dover Publications Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 209mm,
ISBN: 9780486213811
ISBN 10: 0486213811
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 14 January 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Verna Cook Salomonsky (1890 1978) was one of the first prominent women architects in the United States. She studied at Columbia University's School of Architecture and at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris. In the 1920s and '30s she designed hundreds of houses in the suburbs of New York City and elsewhere.