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The Upholsterer's Step-by-Step Handbook

by Alex Law ...

The Upholsterer's Step-by-step Handbook reveals the techniques and tips of the upholstery trade in an easy to understand format. Fully illustrated throughout with informative illustrations and inspiring photography, this book will enable you to confidently create a statement piece of furniture for your home.Learn how to follow a technique-based approach to upholstery, from assessing the work ... Read more

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The Upholsterer's Step-by-step Handbook reveals the techniques and tips of the upholstery trade in an easy to understand format. Fully illustrated throughout with informative illustrations and inspiring photography, this book will enable you to confidently create a statement piece of furniture for your home.Learn how to follow a technique-based approach to upholstery, from assessing the work
... Read more
The Vintage Girl

a sweeping romance that will have you laughing out loud

by Hester Browne ...

'What a delicious, witty story, I loved it!' Sophie KinsellaThe last thing Evie expects to find in the Scottish Highlands is love . . .When Evie Nicholson is asked to visit Kettlesheer Castle in Scotland to archive the family heirlooms, she jumps at the chance. Evie's passion for antiques means that, for her, the castle is a treasure trove of mysteries just waiting to be uncovered.But in each ... Read more

$11.99 AUD

'What a delicious, witty story, I loved it!' Sophie KinsellaThe last thing Evie expects to find in the Scottish Highlands is love . . .When Evie Nicholson is asked to visit Kettlesheer Castle in Scotland to archive the family heirlooms, she jumps at the chance. Evie's passion for antiques means that, for her, the castle is a treasure trove of mysteries just waiting to be uncovered.But in each
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Man with a Van

My Story

by Drew Pritchard ...

Sunday Times bestseller'When I see something old, that I think is beautiful, special, valuable, it's not about the money. It's about being in another time and place.'Star of TV's Salvage Hunters, Drew Pritchard will go to the greatest lengths for the best deals. He discovered the casts Lord Elgin made of his infamous marbles in a school garage, and broke the bank to buy the tool box Malcolm ... Read more

$18.99 AUD

Sunday Times bestseller'When I see something old, that I think is beautiful, special, valuable, it's not about the money. It's about being in another time and place.'Star of TV's Salvage Hunters, Drew Pritchard will go to the greatest lengths for the best deals. He discovered the casts Lord Elgin made of his infamous marbles in a school garage, and broke the bank to buy the tool box Malcolm
... Read more
Style Your Modern Vintage Home

A Guide to Buying, Restoring and Styling from the 1920s to 1990s

by Kate Beavis ...

A comprehensive, photo-filled guide to giving your home a distinctive retro look down to the last detail.Style Your Modern Vintage Home is an inspirational book for all vintage enthusiasts. It encompasses everything vintage lovers want in one place: every vintage decade and every practical tip for buying, styling, and restoring your vintage homewares to achieve your perfectly styled home. With ... Read more

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A comprehensive, photo-filled guide to giving your home a distinctive retro look down to the last detail.Style Your Modern Vintage Home is an inspirational book for all vintage enthusiasts. It encompasses everything vintage lovers want in one place: every vintage decade and every practical tip for buying, styling, and restoring your vintage homewares to achieve your perfectly styled home. With
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Furniture Making - Designs, Working Drawings, and Complete Details of 170 Pieces of Furniture, with Practical Information on Their Construction

by R. S. Bowers ...

This vintage book contains comprehensive instructions for designing and constructing a range of furniture from simple footstools to ornate folding tables. With complete, step-by-step instructions and useful diagrams, this volume is ideal for anyone with an interest in making their own furniture. Contents include: "Easily-made Gate-let and Draw-Leaf Tables", "Design for a Draw-leaf Table", ... Read more

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This vintage book contains comprehensive instructions for designing and constructing a range of furniture from simple footstools to ornate folding tables. With complete, step-by-step instructions and useful diagrams, this volume is ideal for anyone with an interest in making their own furniture. Contents include: "Easily-made Gate-let and Draw-Leaf Tables", "Design for a Draw-leaf Table",
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A Little Book of Vintage Chair Repairs - Including How to Fix Perforated Seats, Repairing Spoon Back Dining Chairs and Much More

by Anon ...

This text contains a comprehensive guide to fixing vintage furniture, with information on fixing perforated seats, repairing spoon back chairs, and much more besides. Vintage furniture is highly desirable, but unfortunately not always entirely durable. This handy little guide will be of considerable value to the antique and vintage furniture owner, allowing them to repair their beloved furniture ... Read more

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This text contains a comprehensive guide to fixing vintage furniture, with information on fixing perforated seats, repairing spoon back chairs, and much more besides. Vintage furniture is highly desirable, but unfortunately not always entirely durable. This handy little guide will be of considerable value to the antique and vintage furniture owner, allowing them to repair their beloved furniture
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The Art of Gothic Living

Dark Decor for the Modern Macabre

by Paul Gambino ...

From a spirit-haunted church in Western Ohio to an ancient Italian castle, from a freakish funhouse on the Jersey shore to a Connecticut cottage with a storybook façade that belies its spine-tingling contents: this collection of aspirational interiors will appeal to anyone who wishes to live in the luxury of Gothic darkness without sacrificing even an ounce of style. The Art of Gothic Living ... Read more

$29.99 AUD

From a spirit-haunted church in Western Ohio to an ancient Italian castle, from a freakish funhouse on the Jersey shore to a Connecticut cottage with a storybook façade that belies its spine-tingling contents: this collection of aspirational interiors will appeal to anyone who wishes to live in the luxury of Gothic darkness without sacrificing even an ounce of style. The Art of Gothic Living
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Ornamented Chair

Its Development in America (1700-1890)

Edited by Zilla Rider Lea ...

Discriminating decorators and collectors, no less than dealers and researchers in antiques, have long felt the need of a comprehensive study of the ornamented chair and its development in America. This book is the product of an effort to satisfy that need and at the same time to bring new pleasures to lovers of beautiful furniture.The book is based on photographic and research material collected ... Read more

$10.39 AUD

Discriminating decorators and collectors, no less than dealers and researchers in antiques, have long felt the need of a comprehensive study of the ornamented chair and its development in America. This book is the product of an effort to satisfy that need and at the same time to bring new pleasures to lovers of beautiful furniture.The book is based on photographic and research material collected
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Things Chinese

Antiques, Crafts, Collectibles

by Ronald G. Knapp ...

China's art objects and traditionally manufactured products have long been sought by collectors—from porcelains and silk fabrics to furniture and even the lacquered chopsticks that are a distant relation to ones found in most Chinese restaurants. Things Chinese presents sixty distinctive items that are typical of Chinese culture and together open a special window onto the people, history, and ... Read more

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China's art objects and traditionally manufactured products have long been sought by collectors—from porcelains and silk fabrics to furniture and even the lacquered chopsticks that are a distant relation to ones found in most Chinese restaurants. Things Chinese presents sixty distinctive items that are typical of Chinese culture and together open a special window onto the people, history, and
... Read more
Guia Prático De Finanças Pessoais: Estratégias E Ferramentas Para Alcançar A Estabilidade Financeira

by Ality Bem ...

Transforme suas finanças com o Guia Prático de Finanças Pessoais ! Aprenda a criar orçamentos eficazes, investir com inteligência e evitar erros comuns. Este livro é perfeito para iniciantes e aqueles que desejam organizar sua vida financeira. Com estratégias claras e ferramentas úteis, você estará preparado para alcançar a estabilidade financeira e construir um futuro seguro para você e sua ... Read more

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Transforme suas finanças com o Guia Prático de Finanças Pessoais ! Aprenda a criar orçamentos eficazes, investir com inteligência e evitar erros comuns. Este livro é perfeito para iniciantes e aqueles que desejam organizar sua vida financeira. Com estratégias claras e ferramentas úteis, você estará preparado para alcançar a estabilidade financeira e construir um futuro seguro para você e sua
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How To Date Furniture

An Easy Reference Guide

by Trevor Yorke ...

Series series Britain's Architectural History
This illustrated, easy reference guide is packed with all the information you need to help you date English furniture and bring its history to life.The book looks at many different furniture types, showing how form, style and the types of wood used changed from the Tudor period through to the Art Deco years of the 1930s.It highlights key details, what to look for when dating furniture, and ... Read more

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This illustrated, easy reference guide is packed with all the information you need to help you date English furniture and bring its history to life.The book looks at many different furniture types, showing how form, style and the types of wood used changed from the Tudor period through to the Art Deco years of the 1930s.It highlights key details, what to look for when dating furniture, and
... Read more
Illustrated Mission Furniture Catalog, 1912-13

by Come-Packt Furniture Co. ...

A comprehensive home furnishings catalog from the height of the popularity of Mission design, reprinted from a rare original, illustrating and describing 400 items from beds and highboys to arm chairs and kitchen cabinets, many designed to be shipped knocked-down for reassembly at home. With invaluable information on woods, finishes, upholstery, colors, more. ... Read more

$10.29 AUD

A comprehensive home furnishings catalog from the height of the popularity of Mission design, reprinted from a rare original, illustrating and describing 400 items from beds and highboys to arm chairs and kitchen cabinets, many designed to be shipped knocked-down for reassembly at home. With invaluable information on woods, finishes, upholstery, colors, more.
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Big Thrift Energy

The Art and Thrill of Finding Vintage Treasures-Plus Tips for Making Old Feel New

by Virginia Chamlee, Blue Star Press ...

Learn to find affordable vintage home decor and how to style it in a modern home.From a Goyard trunk worth upwards of $10,000 (scored for $90) to a floor-length vintage Christian Dior cape (a $10 Goodwill find), Virginia knows how to find deals.Danielle from Apartment Therapy says "Virginia has total sage sister vibes, helping you score pieces for a song with tips that are so good, I kind of can't ... Read more

$25.73 AUD

Learn to find affordable vintage home decor and how to style it in a modern home.From a Goyard trunk worth upwards of $10,000 (scored for $90) to a floor-length vintage Christian Dior cape (a $10 Goodwill find), Virginia knows how to find deals.Danielle from Apartment Therapy says "Virginia has total sage sister vibes, helping you score pieces for a song with tips that are so good, I kind of can't
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The Spirited Homes of Hunt Slonem

by Brian D. Coleman, John Neitzel, Hunt Slonem ...

"My homes are my life's work—making old houses into a new form of my art," says Hunt Slonem in his preface. Extraordinary photography, capsule summaries of each building's history, and a sprinkling of anecdotes open the doors to Slonem's personal and creative world from a new perspective. This book about his idiosyncratic, maximalist interior design style—how he employs color, arranges an ... Read more

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"My homes are my life's work—making old houses into a new form of my art," says Hunt Slonem in his preface. Extraordinary photography, capsule summaries of each building's history, and a sprinkling of anecdotes open the doors to Slonem's personal and creative world from a new perspective. This book about his idiosyncratic, maximalist interior design style—how he employs color, arranges an
... Read more
French and English furniture distinctive styles and periods described and illustrated

by Esther Singleton ...

In "French and English Furniture: Distinctive Styles and Periods Described and Illustrated," Esther Singleton meticulously examines the intricate evolution of furniture design across France and England. Employing a descriptive literary style enriched with vivid illustrations, Singleton delineates the stylistic divergences and similarities rooted in cultural contexts, historical periods, and ... Read more

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In "French and English Furniture: Distinctive Styles and Periods Described and Illustrated," Esther Singleton meticulously examines the intricate evolution of furniture design across France and England. Employing a descriptive literary style enriched with vivid illustrations, Singleton delineates the stylistic divergences and similarities rooted in cultural contexts, historical periods, and
... Read more
History of Locks, Keys, and Home Security Evolution

How Humans Spent Thousands of Years Inventing New Ways to Say “Stay Out”

by Giulia Kings ...

History of Locks, Keys, and Home Security Evolution explores the surprisingly long human struggle to protect private spaces, possessions, and secrets.Long before smart locks, security cameras, and digital access codes, people were already asking a deceptively simple question: How do I keep someone out?From ancient locking mechanisms and early keys to medieval ironwork, industrial-era precision ... Read more

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History of Locks, Keys, and Home Security Evolution explores the surprisingly long human struggle to protect private spaces, possessions, and secrets.Long before smart locks, security cameras, and digital access codes, people were already asking a deceptively simple question: How do I keep someone out?From ancient locking mechanisms and early keys to medieval ironwork, industrial-era precision
... Read more
Handwork in Wood (Illustrated)

by William Noyes ...

Handwork in Wood (Illustrated)Author: William NoyesCopyright Status: Public DomainCategory:Technology: Handicrafts, Arts and crafts, Woodwork Carving CraftsTable of ContentsHANDWORK IN WOODTeachers College, Columbia UniversityWILLIAM NOYES 1910FOREWORDCONTENTS.GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHYChapter I.LOGGING.MECHANICAL METHODS IN LUMBERING.LOGGING.Chapter II.SAWMILLING.<br... ... Read more

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Handwork in Wood (Illustrated)Author: William NoyesCopyright Status: Public DomainCategory:Technology: Handicrafts, Arts and crafts, Woodwork Carving CraftsTable of ContentsHANDWORK IN WOODTeachers College, Columbia UniversityWILLIAM NOYES 1910FOREWORDCONTENTS.GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHYChapter I.LOGGING.MECHANICAL METHODS IN LUMBERING.LOGGING.Chapter II.SAWMILLING.<br...
... Read more
Mission Furniture

How to Make It

by H. H. Windsor ...

DIY projects to furnish a home—from chairs and dressers to sewing boxes and umbrella stands—by the editor and founder of Popular Mechanics.Mission style has withstood the test of time. In homes across America and around the world, Mission furniture creates a look and feel to a home that few others styles can—elegant and homey, all at once. This is a classic book of Mission-style furniture, filled ... Read more

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DIY projects to furnish a home—from chairs and dressers to sewing boxes and umbrella stands—by the editor and founder of Popular Mechanics.Mission style has withstood the test of time. In homes across America and around the world, Mission furniture creates a look and feel to a home that few others styles can—elegant and homey, all at once. This is a classic book of Mission-style furniture, filled
... Read more
American Furniture Designers

1900-2020

by Oscar P. Fitzgerald ...

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleThe 20th century furniture is hot. American Furniture Designers: 1900 to the Present highlights the furniture produced by the 20 most important American furniture designers of the 20th and early 21st centuries plus a selection of the best-known European designers whose work is sold by Knoll International and Herman Miller. The designers are organized ... Read more

$145.82 AUD

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleThe 20th century furniture is hot. American Furniture Designers: 1900 to the Present highlights the furniture produced by the 20 most important American furniture designers of the 20th and early 21st centuries plus a selection of the best-known European designers whose work is sold by Knoll International and Herman Miller. The designers are organized
... Read more
Patina Style

by Brooke Giannetti ...

The Giannettis have developed a home design style that embraces age, patina, weathered and worn surfaces, and rough surfaces. Patina Style is a color palette, a romance with subtlety, an attraction to natural materials and architectural details. It is at once old-world, contemporary, and mildly industrial. Patina Style gives insight into materials choices, methods and treatments that result in ... Read more

$38.99 AUD

The Giannettis have developed a home design style that embraces age, patina, weathered and worn surfaces, and rough surfaces. Patina Style is a color palette, a romance with subtlety, an attraction to natural materials and architectural details. It is at once old-world, contemporary, and mildly industrial. Patina Style gives insight into materials choices, methods and treatments that result in
... Read more
Restoring and Refinishing Furniture

An Illustrated Guide to Revitalizing Your Home

by Virginie Manuel ...

Easy and beautiful do-it-yourself projects to restore, recycle, and transform your furniture.Are you tired of seeing the same furniture in your home? Does your furniture look old and outdated? If you long for change and want to give your home a makeover, then this book is right for you. Restoring and Refinishing Furniture is an easy-to-use, step-by-step guide to repurposing your old and boring ... Read more

$18.99 AUD

Easy and beautiful do-it-yourself projects to restore, recycle, and transform your furniture.Are you tired of seeing the same furniture in your home? Does your furniture look old and outdated? If you long for change and want to give your home a makeover, then this book is right for you. Restoring and Refinishing Furniture is an easy-to-use, step-by-step guide to repurposing your old and boring
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Carved & Decorated European Art Glass

by Ray Grover, Lee Grover ...

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Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture

by Arthur Hayden ...

This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSCHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY NOTECHAPTER II SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STYLESCHAPTER III THE GATE-LEG TABLECHAPTER IV THE FARMHOUSE DRESSERCHAPTER V THE BIBLE-BOX, THE CRADLE, THE SPINNING-WHEEL, AND THE BACON-CUPBOARDCHAPTER VI EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STYLESCHAPTER VII THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHAIRCHAPTER VIII THE WINDSOR ... Read more

$5.27 AUD

This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSCHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY NOTECHAPTER II SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STYLESCHAPTER III THE GATE-LEG TABLECHAPTER IV THE FARMHOUSE DRESSERCHAPTER V THE BIBLE-BOX, THE CRADLE, THE SPINNING-WHEEL, AND THE BACON-CUPBOARDCHAPTER VI EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STYLESCHAPTER VII THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHAIRCHAPTER VIII THE WINDSOR
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Celebrating Canada

Decorating with History in a Contemporary Home

by Peter E. Baker ...

A visual journey showcasing how history can make a house a home, a reminder of the strength of character and ingenuity entrenched in Canada’s history.Inspired by the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation — the same year recognizing 375 years of settlement in Montreal — Quebec antiques professional Peter E. Baker brings life to Canadian history and demonstrates how antiques and folk art can ... Read more

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A visual journey showcasing how history can make a house a home, a reminder of the strength of character and ingenuity entrenched in Canada’s history.Inspired by the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation — the same year recognizing 375 years of settlement in Montreal — Quebec antiques professional Peter E. Baker brings life to Canadian history and demonstrates how antiques and folk art can
... Read more

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