Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture
Magazine Antiques, June, 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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COPYRIGHT 2005 Brant Publications, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning
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