By Kathryn Gill
This good referenced publication offers an amply illustrated ebook on upholstery conservation which discusses and reports the problems concerning the care, interpretation and therapy of upholstered furniture.
Through many good illustrated case reviews the inter-disciplinary collaboration basic to upholstery conservation, and the advanced decision-making strategy interested by the therapy of upholstered furnishings, are made obtrusive. The case histories are contributed through top overseas practitioners within the box and situation items and collections within the care of English background, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of artwork and different across the world popular institutions.
Likewise, the members, from either side of the Atlantic, are world-renowned experts and leaders during this zone 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, quandary item remedy and documentation, the conservation of knowledge, the functionality and the artefact. they vary from the documentation of eighteenth century detachable chair covers and the therapy of a 19th century carriage to a 20th century foam-filled chair belonging to a museum.
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