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By
Shayne Rivers, Senior Furniture Conservator, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Nick Umney, Director of Collection Services Division,(Previously Senior Furniture Conservator), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Description
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 environmental and conservation treatments and the factors which need to be taken into account to arrive at
acceptable solutions to conservation problems.
The practical knowledge and experience of a team of conservators active in the field
are bought together with theoretical and reference material from diverse sources and unified within a systematic framework. Specialist
conservators from related disciplines cover diverse materials often incorporated into furniture.
Audience
Professional and student furniture conservators, restorers, curators, museum staff, furniture designers and makers
Contents
Preface; Furniture history; Wood and wooden structures; Upholstery materials and structures; Plastics and polymers, coatings and binding
media, adhesives and consolidants; Other materials and structures; General review of environment and deterioration; Deterioration of
wood and wooden structures; Deterioration of other materials and structures; Conservation preliminaries; Principles of conserving and
repairing wooden furniture; Principles of cleaning; Principles of consolidation, aesthetic reintegration and coatings; Conserving transparent
coatings on wood; Introduction to traditional gilding; Conserving other materials I; Conserving Other Materials II; Index
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Hardbound, 840 pages, publication date: SEP-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-0958-6
ISBN-10: 0-7506-0958-3
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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