Complete guide to miniature woodworking, sewing, plus step-by-step instructions for 44 elegant dollhouse projects--quilts, pillows, towels, bedroom, ensembles, more.
Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s by Cara Greenberg, ISBN 0517884755
Mid-Century Modern is a loving tribute to the innovative furniture of the fifties and its enduring popularity. Fully illustrated with more than 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs, this visual tour reveals the best of post-war furniture, from high-concept designs to their kitschy counterparts. The fifties were a unique time in the history of the furniture industry. Designers with backgrounds in architecture created organically shaped furniture using the new technologies and materials developed during the war. Sensuous biomorphic designs proliferated. Appreciative consumers treasured the sleek, elegant, and functional designs of Charles Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Nogushi, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, and many others. This new furniture stacked, flexed, and folded; it was rearrangeable and interchangeable; and it addressed the needs of modern life. The book's highlights include the ten best chairs of the fifties, inside looks at the homes of top collectors, rare photographs from...
Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s by Cara Greenberg, ISBN 0517884755
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Identifying American Furniture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, Colonial to Contemporary by Milo M. Naeve, ISBN 0393318443
Identifying American Furniture offers answers to the questions most people ask about furniture: "What style is that?" "How can you tell?" and "When was it popular?" Curators, collectors, appraisers, connoisseurs of furniture, and students of history, architecture, and the arts -- as well as those just learning the fascination of stylistic trends in American furniture -- will find this succinct handbook essential.
Styles are arranged chronologically from 1607 to the present and represent all thirty-five major furniture styles from Arts and Crafts to Windsor. Milo M. Naeve's vivid commentary draws attention to the book's 196 photographs, pinpointing distinctions among the styles. Naeve also offers an excellent guide for further reading.
Identifying American Furniture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, Colonial to Contemporary by Milo M. Naeve, ISBN 0393318443
West on 66 by James H. Cobb, ISBN 0312271301
September, 1958. While on vacation, L.A. Country deputy sheriff Kevin Pulaski wasn't looking for anything more than a cup of coffee and a hot meal when he pulled into the lonely truck stop. But what he found wa a beautiful and egnimatic young woman, a link to a decade-old multiple murder, and a bloodstained, fire-scarred road leading to ta lost fortune in gangland money.
In his undercover persona of an easygoing California hot roder, Kevin Pulaski finds himself swept up in a two-thousand-mile chace down the length of America's legendary Route 66. From the concrete canyons of the Chicago Loop to the desert wastes of the Mojave, Kevin's only allies are a hot '57 Chevy and an even hotter Colt .45.
In "West on 66," author James Cobb has written a classic noir mystery in the tradition of Elmore Leonard, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane. Climb onboard for an unforgettable ride on the Mother Road.
West on 66 by James H. Cobb, ISBN 0312271301
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Dollhouse Furnishings for the Bedroom and Bath: Complete Instructions for Sewing and Making 44 Miniature Projects by Shep Stadtman, ISBN 048624590X
Complete guide to miniature woodworking, sewing, plus step-by-step instructions for 44 elegant dollhouse projects--quilts, pillows, towels, bedroom, ensembles, more.
Dollhouse Furnishings for the Bedroom and Bath: Complete Instructions for Sewing and Making 44 Miniature Projects by Shep Stadtman, ISBN 048624590X
Pulaski bedroom furniture > Dollhouse Furnishings for the Bedroom and Bath: Complete Instructions for Sewing and Making 44 Miniature Projects by Shep Stadtman, ISBN 048624590X