In clear, succinct terms the authors explain what reproductions of document quality are available, when and where it is appropriate to use them and how to purchase them. Wallpapers contains over 1,350 different wallpapers from 1700 to 1910, describing American and foreign designs and borders as well as scenic, plain and embossed papers. Includes 200+ black-and-white photos and 20 full-color photos. Fabrics consists of seven chapters devoted to periods beginning with the 18th century. Features a unique catalog of more than 600 fabric types and patterns and a new chapter on 20th-century fabrics. The authors of Floor Coverings explain how to research floor coverings that may have been used previously in a room and how to locate suitable reproductions. They cover everything from shiplap pine boards, encaustic tiles to flatwoven ingrains and the finest Orientals. Lighting traces the history of lighting from candles to gas and electric fixtures used in American homes, public places and streets from the colonial era into the 20th century. Moss provides complete information on selecting several hundred appropriate fixtures.

Wall Papers for Historic Buildings: A Guide to Selecting Reproduction Wallpapers

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Nylander, Richard C.

Crafts & Hobbies

John Wiley&Sons

A thorough catalog of wallpaper designs and fabric types and patterns from 1700 to 1900 This new hardcover edition is a unique single-source presentation of the successful Fabrics for Historic Buildings and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings. Featuring the entire content of both comprehensive, visually stunning books, Fabrics and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings offers: * More than 1,000 authentically reproduced wallpaper designs, along with extraordinarily useful advice for answering the centuries-old question: "What shall we do with our walls?" * Reliable, expert advice for choosing, buying, and installing the appropriate fabrics for historic interiors, complete with more than 600 fabric types and patterns and new information on twentieth-century fabrics Fabrics and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings is an essential volume for everyone involved in restoring or researching American houses built between 1700 and 1900.

Fabrics and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings

Nylander, Jane C.

wiley

Beauport is the tantalizing personal statement of interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper. Built as a summer home, each room presents a theme that showcases Sleeper's amazing collection of thousands of decorative arts objects. This dazzling book of photographs and text offers an intriguing window on decorative art traditions of the past.

Beauport: The Sleeper McCann House

Curtis, Nancy

Antiques & Collectibles

Historic New England

Wallpapers for Historic Buildings: A Guide to Selecting Reproduction Wallpapers

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Natl Trust for Historic

SECOND EDITION. 1992 Preservation Press trade paperback, Richard C Nylander. In clear, succinct terms the authors explain what reproductions of document quality are available, when and where it is appropriate to use them and how to purchase them. Wallpapers contains over 1,350 different wallpapers from 1700 to 1910, describing American and foreign designs and borders as well as scenic, plain and embossed papers. Includes 200+ black-and-white photos and 20 full-color photos. Fabrics consists of seven chapters devoted to periods beginning with the 18th century.

Wallpapers for historic buildings: A guide to selecting reproduction wallpapers

History

Preservation Press

Everything for the Garden is for anyone who enjoys gardening at home, visiting historic landscapes, or admiring plants and flowers in art and culture. Colorfully illustrated by material from Historic New England’s extensive collection, the book celebrates the objects and literature that people used to make and enjoy gardens from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Essays by well-known experts include Virginia Lopez Begg on garden clubs and horticultural societies, Alan Emmet on garden portraits, Richard Nylander on a cornucopia of catalogs and on garden architecture and ornament, and Judith Tankard on designing and making the garden.

Everything for the Garden

Tankard, Judith B.

Emmet, Alan

Lopez Begg, Virginia

Americas

Wallpaper in New England: Selections from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities

Redmond, Elizabeth

Sander, Penny J.

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