By Kathryn Gill
This good referenced e-book offers an amply illustrated book on upholstery conservation which discusses and studies the problems concerning the care, interpretation and therapy of upholstered furniture.
Through many good illustrated case reports the inter-disciplinary collaboration primary to upholstery conservation, and the advanced decision-making strategy excited about the remedy of upholstered furnishings, are made obtrusive. The case histories are contributed by way of prime overseas practitioners within the box and obstacle gadgets and collections within the care of English background, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of paintings and different the world over popular institutions.
Likewise, the participants, from each side of the Atlantic, are world-renowned experts and leaders during this region of conservation operating for the private and non-private sectors. The case histories, illustrated in color, black and white and in particular ready line drawings, obstacle item therapy and documentation, the conservation of knowledge, the functionality and the artefact. they vary from the documentation of eighteenth century detachable chair covers and the remedy of a 19th century carriage to a 20th century foam-filled chair belonging to a museum.
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