Conservation of Furniture

by Shayne Rivers, Nick Umney

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136415364
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/07/2007
Series:	Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	840
File size:	122 MB
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About the Author

Shayne Rivers, Senior Conservator, Furniture Victoria and Albert Museum London UK. Nick Umney, Director of Collections Services Victoria and Albert Museum London UK.

Table of Contents

Part 1 History; Chapter 1 Furniture history; Part 2 Materials; Chapter 2 Wood and wooden structures; Chapter 3 Upholstery materials and structures; Chapter 4 Plastics and polymers, coatings and binding media, adhesives and consolidants; Chapter 5 Other materials and structures; Part 3 Deterioration; Chapter 6 General review of environment and deterioration; Chapter 7 Deterioration of wood and wooden structures; Chapter 8 Deterioration of other materials and structures; Part 4 Conservation; Chapter 9 Conservation preliminaries; Chapter 10 Principles of conserving and repairing wooden furniture; Chapter 11 Principles of cleaning; Chapter 12 Principles of consolidation, aesthetic reintegration and coatings; Chapter 13 Conserving transparent coatings on wood; Chapter 14 Introduction to traditional gilding; Chapter 15 Conserving other materials I; Chapter 16 Conserving other materials II;