Woodworking the New Wave P

By Crown Publishing Group and Dona Z. Meilach

Book Overview

Is lavishly illustrated with more than 600 photographs and 24 color plates organized into four areas. Objects are illustrated with a variety of bows, boxes and other containers, furniture includes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517544830
• ISBN13: 9780517544839
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Hundreds of Photos of Experimental Designs in Woodworking

From back cover: "Anyone and everyone who has ever touched and been touched by the beauty of wood will find inspiration and delight in every page of 'Woodworking: The New Wave." Craftsmen, interior decorators, artists, buyers, gallery directors and museums curators will be able to spend hours discovering nuances created by innovative minds and hands working age-old tools in new directions. 'Woodworking: The New Wave' is lavishly illustrated with more than 600 magnificent photographs and 24 color plates, organized into four fascinating areas: OBJECTS illustrates a variety of bowls, boxes and other containers. FURNITURE includes tables, desks, and chairs, cabinets and other pieces with forms that expand any limited visions of what can be accomplished with wood. SCULPTURE features the expressive attitudes of today's, and tomorrow's, approach to realism and abstraction. THE ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKSPACES consists of in-studio interviews with photos of the woodworkers, their tools and their organization. These are aimed at enabling others to compare and to discover improvised and ingeniously devised tools and ideas they may use in their own work areas."