1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs

This splendid archive of decorative ironwork designs painstakingly reprinted from a rare French volume includes 1100 illustrations of elaborate motifs used to enhance such diverse architectural elements as doorway and balcony grilles gates garden seats door panels columns and funeral monuments. <br>Among the illustrations are intricate finely detailed images of diminutive rosettes hat hooks doorknobs and clotheshorses; iron fencing for cemetery plots; water fountains candelabra metal bench frames garden urns gargoyles umbrella stands finials and crosses; designs for friezes and moldings; and many other types of decorate antique ironwork. All items are identified by English translations of the original French captions. <br>An invaluable source of information for art historians craftsmen dealers collectors preservationists--anyone interested in historic ironwork--this magnificent treasury of copyright-free graphics will be welcomed as well by commercial artists designers and craftspeople as a rich source of visual inspiration and immediately usable art. <br>