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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN-13
9780486412238
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94440411
Product Key Features
Book Title
1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs
Author
Denonvilliers Company
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
311mm
Item Width
244mm
Item Weight
340g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Denonvilliers Company
Series Title
Dover Pictorial Archive
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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