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1100 DECORATIVE FRENCH IRONWORK DESIGNS
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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 decorative 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, preservationist – 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.
art. Meticulously rendered in fine black-and white line art, the designs have been reprinted from rare European and American catalogs and periodicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including L'Art Pour Tous, Art Journal, The Illustrated London News, Harper’s Monthly and others.
The designs illustrated here date from the Middle Ages through the late 19th century, encompassing the ornate figuration of the Renaissance, the exuberant innovations of Baroque and Rococo artists, and the sinuous designs of 19th-century ironworkers inspired by the Art Nouveau aesthetic. Artists, architects, designers and craftspersons will all find this volume an ideal source book of beautiful designs-all copyright-free-from a great tradition in the decorative arts.
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