Synopses & Reviews
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.
Unabridged Dover (2000) republication of Fontes de fer de toutes espéces (Ironwork of All Kinds), published by Fonderies D'Osne-le-Val L. Denonvilliers, Paris, n.d. 86 plates with 1,100 black-and-white illustrations.
Synopsis
Invaluable source of information for art historians, craftspeople, dealers, collectors, and preservationists includes hundreds of finely detailed illustrations of garden seats, candelabras, moldings, gates, balcony grilles, vases, crosses, funerary ornaments and monuments, finials, doorknobs and many other ornamental features. A rich source of inspiration and royalty-free graphics, as well, for commercial artists and designers.
Synopsis
Hundreds of finely detailed illustrations of garden seats, candelabras, moldings, gates, balcony grilles, vases, crosses, funerary ornaments and monuments, finials, doorknobs and many other ornamental features.
Table of Contents
Windowsills
Window Balconies
Large Balconies and Railings
Projecting Balconies
Railing Ornaments
Railing Ornaments and Sections
Fanlight, Panels, and Transoms
Detached Rosettes
Door Panels and Transoms
Various Gargoyles and Heads
Crown or Capping, Brackets, Shelf Supports
Crown Molding and Crown or Capping
Bannister Trim
Hollow Trim
Bannister Knobs
Umbrella Racks
Garden Bench Frames, Urns, and Vases
Candleholders
Crosses