Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture

Magazine Antiques, May, 2005

Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture

By Sarah Handler

MA-293

Our price $50.00

This is the first book to treat the close relationship between Chinese buildings and the furniture created to appoint them. Handler describes how construction, decoration, and function coalesce in a piece of furniture and how these factors mirror the concepts behind Chinese architecture. Following a discussion of room use, Handler divides her probing study according to furniture form. 193 colorplates, 5 illustrations.

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