1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs

Author: Denonvilliers Company

Brand: Dover

Edition: Reprint

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 96

Release Date: 30-03-2001

Part Number: 1100 b&w illustrations

Details: This splendid archive of decorative ironwork designs, painstakingly reprinted from a rare French volume, includes 1,100 illustrations of elaborate motifs used to enhance such diverse architectural elements as doorway and balcony grilles, gates, garden seats, door panels, columns, and funeral monuments.
Among the illustrations are intricate, finely detailed images of diminutive rosettes, hat hooks, doorknobs, and clotheshorses; iron fencing for cemetery plots; water fountains, candelabra, metal bench frames, garden urns, gargoyles, umbrella stands, finials, and crosses; designs for friezes and moldings; and many other types of decorate antique ironwork. All items are identified by English translations of the original French captions.
An invaluable source of information for art historians, craftsmen, dealers, collectors, preservationists&;anyone interested in historic ironwork&;this magnificent treasury of copyright-free graphics will be welcomed as well by commercial artists, designers, and craftspeople as a rich source of visual inspiration and immediately usable art.

EAN: 9780486412238

Package Dimensions: 12.2 x 9.3 x 0.3 inches

Languages: English