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Marc Notes:
Denonvilliers Company.; Reprint. Originally published: Paris: Denonvilliers Firm, 1900?.; This Dover edition, first publishedin 2001, is a republication of 1,000 designs from Fontes de fer de toutes especes, a catalog published by the L. Denonvilliers firm, Paris, circa 1900. A new Publisher's Note has been prepared for th Dover edition.--p. 7."
Jacket Description/Back:
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.
Publisher Marketing:
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.
Review Citations:
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Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 208 (EAN 9780486412238, Paperback)
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