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Author : Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture,Shixiang Wang,Curtis Evarts
Publisher : Chinese Arts Foundation
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Furniture
ISBN : UOM:39015038187616
Author : Craig Clunas,Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024308483
This study of Chinese furniture, based on the V&A s important collection, ranges from lacquered furniture attributed to the workshops of the Imperial Court to hardwood furniture of the Ming Dynasty, covering the period from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. Timber, techniques and workshop methods are discussed as well as the arrangement of furniture in Chinese interiors.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art auctions
ISBN : OCLC:171299634
Author : Chu-Pak Lau
Publisher : Hku Museum and Art Gallery
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 988190238X
The University Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Hong Kong presents Classical Chinese Huanghuali Furniture from the Haven Collection and publishes this informative edition in conjunction with the exhibition. Chinese huanghuali furniture is world-famous and, for the longest time, has been collected in both East and West. The fine selection displayed here shows both domestic furniture and scholars' items, such as brush pots and chests. In Ming dynasty China, traditional wood architecture and Buddhist thrones inspired Chinese furniture makers and, as trade expanded, so did the amount of hardwood furniture in the form of sophisticated movable pieces and built-in interiors. Ming furniture is known for its elegant lines and carved details. During the reign of Emperor Longqing (1567-1572) China opened its borders, previously implemented import bans were lifted and a greater variety of building materials became available. Consequently, during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911) the most celebrated types of domestic furniture were made from huanghuali and zitan woods. The elegant dark hardwood with natural shine is remarkable for the fact that Chinese furniture is typically made from solid timber, not an invisible subconstruction covered by a decorative veneer, as is so often the case in the West. The strength of each individual element of a piece of furniture and the consistent color matter, as every detail is exposed and the precision of the joints and the size and position of the dowels are all visual elements of an often simple and graceful design. In some pieces the joints are detectible and accessible, sometimes demountable, or else expertly hidden in the more sophisticated pieces. Applied surface finishes were generally only a layer of wax; no stains or clear lacquer seals were added to the dense and inherently decorative woods.
Author : Sarah Handler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520214842
"Sarah Handler has written a true cultural history of Chinese furniture. Her book is a highly erudite blend of art history and social history, yet with a structure as transparent and elegant as that of a fine piece of Ming-style furniture."—Klaas Ruitenbeek, Louise Hawley Stone Chair of Far Eastern Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and author of Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China: A Study of the Fifteenth-Century Carpenter's Manual Lu Ban jing
Author : Sandra Lok Fu Chin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015032538772
Illustrating many fine examples, this catalog presents a treasury of classical Chinese furniture from five American private collections exhibited at the Craft & Folk Art Museum of San Francisco.
Author : Sarah Handler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520353336
Chinese classical furniture is esteemed throughout the world for its beauty, functionalism, and influence on contemporary design aesthetics. Sarah Handler's stunningly illustrated volume traces Chinese hardwood furniture from its earliest origins in the Shang dynasty (c. 1500 to c. 1050 B.C.) to the present. She offers a fascinating and poetic view of Chinese furniture as functional sculpture, a fine art alongside the other Chinese arts of calligraphy, architecture, painting, and literature. Handler, a widely respected scholar of Chinese furniture, uses her knowledge of Chinese social, political, and economic history to provide a backdrop for understanding the many nuances of this art form. Drawing on literary and visual evidence from excavated materials, written texts, paintings, prints, and engravings, she discusses how people lived, their notions of hierarchy, and their perceptions of space. Her descriptions of historical developments, such as the shift from mats to chairs, evoke the psychological and sociological ramifications. The invention of a distinctive way to support and contain people and things within the household is one of China's singular contributions, says Handler. With more than three hundred exquisite illustrations, many in color, Handler's comprehensive study reveals "the magical totality of Chinese classical furniture, from its rich surfaces and shrewd proportions down to the austere soul of art that resides in the hardwood interiors." Austere Luminosity recognizes Chinese classical furniture as one of China's premier arts, unique in the furniture traditions of the world.
Author : Robert D. Jacobsen
Publisher : Art Media Resources
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025045126
"Produced in conjunction with the symposium Classical Chinese furniture and the built environment, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota June 10-12, 1999"--T.p. verso.
Author : Karen Mazurkewich
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781462906925
The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chinese Furniture is a survey of these collectibles--from the very best hardwood pieces featured to standard softwood specimens still available on the Asian market. This antique furniture book presents an overview of carving styles, wood types, regional variations, class distinctions and restoration techniques. It includes detailed chapters on various types of wooden furniture cover chairs, stools and benches, tables and desks, beds, cabinets and bookshelves, doors and screens and household accessories. With this renewed interest in antique furniture, a forgery market has emerged. Thousands of factories in southern China are churning out brand new or refurbished furniture and passing them off as Chinese antiques. Chinese Furniture unearths these forgeries and serves as an indispensable reference guide for collectors of antique wood furniture.
Author : Joanna Banham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136787577
From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides a history of interior decoration and design from ancient times to the present day. It includes more than 500 illustrated entries covering a variety of subjects ranging from the work of the foremost designers, to the origins and function of principal rooms and furnishing types, as well as surveys of interior design by period and nationality all prepared by an international team of experts in the field. Entries on individuals include a biography, a chronological list of principal works or career summary, a primary and secondary bibliography, and a signed critical essay of 800 to 1500 words on the individual's work in interior design. The style and topic entries contain an identifying headnote, a guide to main collections, a list of secondary sources, and a signed critical essay.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Furniture
ISBN : UOM:39015062846756
Attracted by the form, solid structure, and simple, elegant lines of Chinese furniture, Mimi and Raymond Hung started to form their collection in he mid 1980s. Guided by RobertH. Ellsworth, it now includes some of the best and most interesting forms that became availbale to collectors, many of which had never before seen outside China. These two volumes feature 203 beautifully photographed examples with Ellsworth's observations on each piece.
Author : MD Flacks, Ltd,M. D. Flacks,Rupert Waterhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Furniture
ISBN : OCLC:40947592
Author : Tom McNulty
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780786466719
This book is for art market researchers at all levels. A brief overview of the global art market and its major stakeholders precedes an analysis of the various sales venues (auction, commercial gallery, etc.). Library research skills are reviewed, and advanced methods are explored in a chapter devoted to basic market research. Because the monetary value of artwork cannot be established without reference to the aesthetic qualities and art historical significance of our subject works, two substantial chapters detail the processes involved in researching and documenting the fine and decorative arts, respectively, and provide annotated bibliographies. Methods for assigning values for art objects are explored, and sources of price data, both in print and online, are identified and described in detail. In recent years, art historical scholarship increasingly has addressed issues related to the history of art and its markets: a chapter on resources for the historian of the art market offers a wide range of sources. Finally, provenance and art law are discussed, with particular reference to their relevance to dealers, collectors, artists and other art market stakeholders.
Author : Nancy Zeng Berliner,Craig Clunas
Publisher : MFA Publications
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015038149913
Sarah Handler details the changing designs and styles of furniture types in her essay "Wood Shaped and Standing Through the Winds of Time: The Evolution of Chinese Furniture." The carpenters and their skills are the focus of "The Furniture Maker and the Woodworking Traditions of China," by Curtis Evarts.
Author : Grace Wu Bruce
Publisher : Art Media Resources
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015052121921
This volume presents the amazing Lu Ming Shi Collection, which comprises 71 examples of huanghuali and zitan furniture and scholar's objects. Together they represent the golden age of Chinese furniture design. Beautifully illustrated, each piece is described by Grace Wu Bruce, with a preface by Jean-Paul Desroches and an essay 'Collecting or the Passion of a Private Obsession: A Commentary on the Lu Ming Shi Collection' by Philippe De Backer.