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Conservation of furniture /

This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory with practice to show the principles which govern interaction between wooden objects, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rivers, Shayne
Otros Autores: Umney, Nick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, England ; Burlington, MA : Butterworth Heinemann, 2003.
Colección:Butterworth-Heinemann series in conservation and museology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: History
  • 1. Furniture history
  • Part II: Materials
  • 2. Wood and wooden structures
  • 3. Upholstery materials and structures
  • 4. Plastics and polymers, coatings and binding media, adhesives and consolidants
  • 5. Other materials and structures
  • Part III: Deterioration
  • 6. General review of environment and deterioration
  • 7. Deterioration of wood and wooden structures
  • 8. Deterioration of other materials and structures
  • Part IV: Conservation
  • 9. Conservation preliminaries
  • 10. Principles of conserving and repairing wooden furniture
  • 11. Principles of cleaning
  • 12. Principles of consolidation, aesthetic reintegration and coatings
  • 13. Conserving transparent coatings on wood
  • 14. Introduction to traditional gilding
  • 15. Conserving other materials I
  • 16. Conserving other materials II.