1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780486412238)

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.


Author: Denonvilliers Co
ISBN-10: 0486412237
ISBN-13: 9780486412238
Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2001
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 12.08h x 9.36w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 208