The Furniture Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Identify, Restore & Care for Furniture

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Christophe Pourny Jen Renzi

The Furniture Bible

Everything You Need to Know to Identify, Restore & Care for Furniture

Christophe Pourny, Jen Renzi, Martha Stewart

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Workman Publishing
01 December 2014

Art & Architecture; Interior design, decor & style guides

A comprehensive guide to restoring, transforming, preserving, and learning about your furniture—from antiques to midcentury, be they family heirlooms or funky flea-market finds—from Christophe Pourny, Martha Stewart’s go-to restorer.

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 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.

By: Christophe Pourny, Jen Renzi
Foreword by: Martha Stewart
Imprint: Workman Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 6mm, Width: 6mm,
Weight: 1.201kg
ISBN: 9781579655358
ISBN 10: 1579655351
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 December 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christophe Pourny is one of the most esteemed furniture restorers in the business. Descended from a long line of artisans, he was reared in his father s atelier in the South of France and apprenticed at his uncle Pierre Madel s legendary antiques shop on rue Jacob in Paris. Today, Pourny restores furniture out of his own atelier in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews for The Furniture Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Identify, Restore & Care for Furniture

Wall Street Journal, 10 Crucial Home & Design Books for Beginners Library Journal, Best Books of the Year Amazon, Best Books of the Month A guide for the pros, DIYers and furniture aficionados eager for tips from the expert. Pourny's practical advice on all things antique is coupled with historical notes. --Time A comprehensive but accessible guide to restoration that lays out everything you need to know about making over wooden furniture. --Martha Stewart Living Authority wafts from [Pourny's] handsome how-to book like the sweet smell of lemon oil. --New York Times A practical, visual guide for anyone who wants to restore a cherished heirloom or simply correct a water stain. --San Francisco Chronicle Pourny's book will serve brave DIYers as well as design aficionados wishing to hone their connoisseurship. -ArchitecturalDigest.com It's really everything you wanted to know about furniture but were afraid to ask. --WWD.com Whether you want to refresh your mother's outdated bureau, refinish a set of vintage Danish Modern chairs, or restore antique marquetry to its former glory, this volume's got you covered and then some. -Design*Sponge Encyclopedic in coverage . . . deftly illustrated and defined . . . a fantastic go-to source for furniture care. --Library Journal, starred review A thorough and practical guide for the furniture expert as well as for the novice restorer. . . . This guide will find a wide audience among those who simply want to learn about and appreciate good furniture, as well as those who are more hands-on. --Publishers Weekly, starred review This is a very useful and important book for anyone who owns furniture--antique, modern, or new--or anyone who plans to fix or restore it. --Martha Stewart