Genrih
Gatsura
- literary pseudonym of the Moscow writer Gennady GATSURA.
The books from a series
"HISTORY
OF FURNITURE ART".
PERIOD
FURNITURE
ILLUSTRATED
HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AND WEST EUROPEAN FURNITURE MAKING
The
book represents the history of Russian and West European furniture making. It
includes typical pieces of period furniture relating to various countries. Included
here are also accessories and raw materials, the list of the best Russian and
European furniture makers and a lot of interesting information never published
before.
The study bases itself on the rare sources related to 17 - 19 and
the beginning of 20 centuries.
Moscow,
1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008.
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Rare!
Jacob
& Josef KOHN FURNITURE
"J.
& J. KOHN" ON THE FURNITURE MARKET OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA
Illustrated history of Kohn furniture. More
than 1600 illustrations
Moscow,
2009. *
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THONET
FURNITURE
“BROTHERS
THONET” ON THE FURNITURE MARKET OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA.
Moscow,
2001.Illustrated
history of Thonet furniture.
The
illustrated history of the furniture firm, which was a furniture style designer
in the second half of the 19 and at the beginning of the 20 centuries. Michael
Tonet, the founder of the largest furniture empire, was the first to introduce
the conveyer method of manufacture.
About 2000 color and black-and-white illustrations
and the most complete catalogue with more than 1700 pieces of furniture relating
to the second half of the 19 and the beginning of the 20 centuries.
The richly
illustrated book presents the history of "The Brothers Thonet" Firm.
Included here are all the models of the Viennese furniture delivered by the firm
to imperial Russia. You can also find here the description of accessories and
raw materials used in the manufacture of bent furniture. The book contains a lot
of interesting information never published before. Even the pages of the catalogue
are presented in the "Thonet" style. The book can be useful to the workers
of antiquarian and furniture shops, collectors, historians, restorers, museum
employees, artists of theatre and cinema, architects, designers, display arrangers
studying at art schools, and to many other people interested in the history of
furniture. Especially it will be interesting to the chiefs and designers of furniture
manufactures. New is well forgotten old. So everyone can find here a lot of interesting
things.
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