Antique Furniture Books

'The Practical Illustrated Guide to Furniture Repair and Restoration'. Expert step-by-step techniques shown in more than 1200 colour photographs.

Featuring colour photographs, this book clarifies the nature and variety of chairs and seating in Britain from 1500 to 1700. It contains illustrations that are accompanied by the dimensions of the pieces, and attention is drawn to restorations or missing parts or replacements, as well as to rare, fine or particularly interesting features.

Instructions and examples are shown in step-by-step sequences, with over 350 colour photographs in total.

Straightforward step-by-step instructions for everyday restoration techniques from replacing drawer runners to refitting a door.

The National Trust owns and cares for important collection of antiques in Britain. This book features the collection and is suitable for those with little knowledge of art history and antiques as well as those more versed in the subjects. It features the work of various painters, designers and craftsmen and gives a visual context for the artworks.

This wide-ranging survey offers a history of Western furniture which covers a dazzling array of styles, historical periods and countries. It looks at most of the main techniques and materials of furniture-making including carving and glass furniture.

This guide contains all the essential information needed by a budding furniture collector, showing how to identify styles as well as individual pieces, how to avoid fakes and how to spot a bargain. Included are listings of auction houses, antiques centres and major antiques events.

This title examines the origin and heyday of the furniture of the arts and Crafts movement - 1860-1920. Illustrations accompany clear and detailed research. This publication coincides with a major Arts and Crafts exhibition at the V&A Museum in March 2005.

Features history, contemporary finds, and more than 100 photographs of unique hickory furniture. This work explores the history of hickory through illustrated catalogs, museum and private collections, plus photography. It captures the significance of rustic furniture as an art form.

Explaining and illustrating financial importance of patination and colour, this fifth edition is a reference book for the practicing collector and dealer, a work from which the memory may be refreshed and points checked. It consists of over 1,600 photographs of furniture found in shops and auction rooms.

The Windsor Chair, whether simple or complicated in construction, plain or ornate in appearance, has always served its purpose - to be utilitarian, durable, comfortable and even handsome. This highly-illustrated book serves as a celebration of the chair, charting its history.

Seventeenth-century English furniture, then and now.

Provides a detailed survey of Regency furniture. This book is illustrated with photographs and designs. Regency furniture is defined as the furniture produced throughout the period 1790-1840. The interrelated influences of Royal and wealthy patrons on furniture makers are explained.

This is a concise yet wide ranging survey of collectable antique furniture. It is aimed at the starting out or would-be collector who wants to have available the most important facts in an easily accessible form.

It is hard to overstate the importance of the Gillow material in relationship to the history of both British and North American furniture. This book helps owners, collectors and dealers to identify Gillow furniture and furniture made by other cabinetmakers to the firm's designs.

Covers western-style furniture as a decorative art in eight countries: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Tibet and the Philippines.

Suitable for those who are interested in the furniture and decor of an era that has uncanny parallels with our own. Providing an overview of the variety of furniture produced by local cabinetmakers from Germany to Scandinavia, this text showcases the candlesticks, secretaries, and spittoons crafted in fruitwoods and decorated with ebony inlay.

Intended to give the reader an insight into the furniture of the Lesser Antilles, and its place in the changing politics and history of the Caribbean islands. This book aims to help young West Indians to preserve their furniture heritage and keep it within the islands or return it to the West Indies when found elsewhere.