The Furniture Handbook

Author : Frida Ramstedt
Publisher : Appetite by Random House
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780525612865

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The Furniture Handbook by Frida Ramstedt Pdf

The comprehensive guide to living with furniture, no matter your style, from the author of The Interior Design Handbook. Interior-design sensation Frida Ramstedt changed how we think about designing a harmonious home with her book The Interior Design Handbook. Now she brings that same authoritative and comprehensive focus to this complementary guide that’s all about the most essential and functional items within your home. No matter your style of home, we all want our spaces to feel inviting and comfortable. And the key to that is quality furniture that supports your lifestyle. The Furniture Handbook shares the foundational rules of choosing, arranging, and caring for the furniture in every room of your home. From selecting the perfect size dining table and seating that fits your family to arranging your living room pieces for the best flow, the basic principles that interior designers use and that everyone should master are provided. Know what to pay extra attention to when choosing and rearranging furniture and what common complaints people have so you can avoid them. Maximize form and function for the pieces in your home, so you have furniture that is practical, beautiful, and cohesive. Choose the right scale and materials for your space, regardless of how big or small. Understand the dimensions and details of furniture design that determine whether a piece is comfortable or not. Select quality upholstery that looks beautiful and will endure wear and tear from pets, kids, and daily life. Make better choices for every room in your home and create the space you want to live in Complete with simple and elegant illustrations, The Furniture Handbook is your key to creating beautiful, personal spaces in your home.

Author : Frida Ramstedt
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780593796160

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The Furniture Handbook by Frida Ramstedt Pdf

The comprehensive guide to living with furniture, no matter your style, from the author of The Interior Design Handbook. Interior-design sensation Frida Ramstedt changed how we think about designing a harmonious home with her book The Interior Design Handbook. Now she brings that same authoritative and comprehensive focus to this complementary guide that’s all about the most essential and functional items within your home. No matter your style of home, we all want our spaces to feel inviting and comfortable. And the key to that is quality furniture that supports your lifestyle. The Furniture Handbook shares the foundational rules of choosing, arranging, and caring for the furniture in every room of your home. From selecting the perfect size dining table and seating that fits your family to arranging your living room pieces for the best flow, the basic principles that interior designers use and that everyone should master are provided. • Know what to pay extra attention to when choosing and rearranging furniture and what common complaints people have so you can avoid them. • Understand the dimensions and details of furniture design that determine whether a piece is comfortable or not. • Select quality upholstery that looks beautiful and will endure wear and tear from pets, kids, and daily life. • Learn how to match the scale of different pieces and plan what goes where before you start moving your furniture, so you never regret the time and money you have invested. Complete with simple and elegant illustrations, The Furniture Handbook is your key to creating beautiful, personal spaces in your home.

Author : Timothy D. Rieman,Jean M. Burks
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764320017

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The Shaker Furniture Handbook by Timothy D. Rieman,Jean M. Burks Pdf

This book surveys furniture made during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Shaker communities of New England, Kentucky, and Ohio, with over 130 color photos. Free-standing tables, chairs, boxes, desks, built-in cupboards, and cases of drawers are included. The text introduces nearly twenty Shaker communities, known cabinetmakers, identifiable furniture traits, and designs unique to specific Shaker communites.

Author : John Kassay
Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0870232754

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The Book of Shaker Furniture by John Kassay Pdf

A comprehensive, amply illustrated guide illustrates the simple, functional furniture style developed during the Shaker movement--a successful experiment in communitarian living--and traces its evolution from the Colonial styles of New York and New England

Author : Christopher Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733391614

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The Anarchist's Design Book Expanded Edition by Christopher Schwarz Pdf

Author : Frida Ramstedt
Publisher : Appetite by Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780525611073

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The Interior Design Handbook by Frida Ramstedt Pdf

Perfectly necessary for our current times: The new bible of interior design. While we spend more time at home than ever before, learn from the guru who has coached an entire Scandinavian generation in the art of creating a harmonious home. Frida Ramstedt believes in thinking about how we decorate, rather than focusing on what we decorate with. We know more today than ever before about design trends, furniture, and knickknacks, and now Frida familiarizes readers with the basic principles behind interior and styling--what looks good and, most of all, why it looks good. The Interior Design Handbook teaches you general rules of thumb--like what the golden ratio and the golden spiral are, the proper size for a coffee table in relation to your sofa, the optimal height to hang lighting fixtures, and the best ways to use a mood board--complete with helpful illustrations. Use The Interior Design Handbook to achieve a balanced, beautiful home no matter where you live or what your style is.

Author : Christophe Pourny
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781579656454

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The Furniture Bible by Christophe Pourny Pdf

A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Crucial Home & Design Book for Beginners A Library Journal Best Book of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Month Christophe Pourny learned the art of furniture restoration in his father’s atelier in the South of France. In this, his first book, he teaches readers everything they need to know about the provenance and history of furniture, as well as how to restore, update, and care for their furniture—from antiques to midcentury pieces, family heirlooms or funky flea-market finds. The heart of the book is an overview of Pourny’s favorite techniques—ceruse, vernis anglais,and water gilding, among many others—with full-color step-by-step photographs to ensure that readers can easily replicate each refinishing technique at home. Pourny brings these techniques to life with a chapter devoted to real-world refinishing projects, from a veneered table to an ebonized desk, a gilt frame to a painted northern European hutch. Rounding out this comprehensive guide is care and maintenance information, including how to properly clean leather, polish hardware, fix a broken leg, and replace felt pads, as well as recipes to make your own wax, shellac, varnish, stain, and more.

Author : Cherry Dobson
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781446381304

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The Upholstery Bible by Cherry Dobson Pdf

A complete course in upholstering furniture, including tooling up, selecting stuffings and outer textiles, techniques, and cutting plans. The Upholstery Bible is a one-stop resource for furniture upholstering, regardless of your abilities, with easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions explaining all the essential upholstery techniques, from covering buttons to stripping and upholstering entire chairs. Build your skills at your own pace, with advice on the basics such as choosing materials and tools for the job and estimating yardage, as well as more complex upholstering techniques. The Upholstery Bible features invaluable advice on what to look for when buying second hand furniture, teaching you what’s fixable and what’s not as well as how to avoid costly mistakes by choosing the right stitches, and techniques and textiles for the job. “Dobson breaks up the technical stuff with a more inspiring approach . . . If you’re starting out, I’d say this would be a brilliant resource to have . . . offers plenty of answers to the most common gotchas.” —Vintique Upholstery

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997870249

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DELUXE with All the Precision Possible by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christiane Lemieux
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780770434298

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The Finer Things by Christiane Lemieux Pdf

With a foreword by Miles Redd, this luxurious decorating resource trains the eye to recognize enduring, quality home goods and to use them to dazzling design effect. Quality matters. Just as a home’s foundation should be built to stand the test of time, so, too, should the furniture, objects, and elements of our rooms speak to an enduring sense of beauty and comfort. They should outlast trends and our loving day-to-day use. But how does one recognize quality and judge whether something is well made? Christiane Lemieux set out to answer this question by interviewing the world’s greatest experts. Weaving together the insights and guidance of dozens of wallpaper and paint specialists, textile fabricators, accessories artisans, and interior designers, Lemieux has curated an unparalleled education in recognizing the hallmarks of timeless, heirloom-quality pieces. Hundreds of elegant home interiors—both iconic examples from the past and stunning residences today--represent the range of luxurious and customized environments that can be created with fine décor.

Author : Family Handyman
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1977-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0684150603

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The Early American Furniture-Making Handbook by Family Handyman Pdf

Covers the fundamentals of constructing reproductions of early American furniture and outlines sixty-five projects for the craftsman

Author : Jerzy Smardzewski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319195339

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Furniture Design by Jerzy Smardzewski Pdf

Maximizing reader insights into the principles of designing furniture as wooden structures, this book discusses issues related to the history of furniture structures, their classification and characteristics, ergonomic approaches to anthropometric requirements and safety of use. It presents key methods and highlights common errors in designing the characteristics of the materials, components, joints and structures, as well as looking at the challenges regarding developing associated design documentation. Including analysis of how designers may go about calculating the stiffness and endurance of parts, joints and whole structures, the book analyzes questions regarding the loss of furniture stability and the resulting threats to health of the user, putting forward a concept of furniture design as an engineering processes. Creating an attractive, functional, ergonomic and safe piece of furniture is not only the fruit of the work of individual architects and artists, but requires an effort of many people working in interdisciplinary teams, this book is designed to add important knowledge to the literature for engineer approaches in furniture design.

Author : Andrea Mehlhose,Martin Wellner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 0841616442

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Meubles Modernes by Andrea Mehlhose,Martin Wellner Pdf

"Modern Furniture presents an overview of the most important developments and highlights in furniture design. Beginning with the latest trends for 2009 the book covers the past 150 years. The spotlight focuses on several individual gems of design, from the most contemporary Heaven series of the Italian manufacturer Emu back to the famous cantilever chair, but also on creations such as laminate and chipboard. Materials that we no longer regard as design innovations but which have nevertheless greatly influenced the home decor of our times. Concise texts accompany the individually featured designs, whilst essays on selected themes and styles, written by experts round off this benchmark illustrated book."--Publisher's description

Author : Robert W. Lang
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607659174

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Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture, Revised & Expanded Second Edition by Robert W. Lang Pdf

Providing complete shop drawings for 61 classic Stickley furniture pieces, master cabinetmaker Robert W. Lang measured original Craftsman antiques to create these detailed plans. With full perspective views, elevations, sections, details, and cutting lists for each Shaker furniture project, this new paperback collection showcases the heart of the Craftsman aesthetic.

Author : Treena Crochet
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 0132050412

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Designer's Guide to Furniture Styles by Treena Crochet Pdf

For courses in the history of interiors, history of furniture, and furniture design and construction. This image-rich text introduces significant movements in the evolution of the decorative arts, including furniture, design motifs, and accessories related to interior design and architectural settings from the Neolithic Age to the 21st century. It augments the study of art and architectural history by discussing the function and aesthetic purpose of furniture, pottery, glassware, lighting, textiles, mirrors, metalworking, clocks, and wallcoverings; as well as their integration into interior design. The author presents crucial contextual information on political and social events and the technological advances that influenced each period's design trends, and compares objects from different periods, demonstrating how ideas and concepts progress through their stylistic development. Descriptions of period room settings show how the decorative arts complement architecture and interior design. Valuable websites and bibliographic information are provided for further exploration, and a glossary highlights key vocabulary.