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Deux doreurs de l’atelier de restauration du Château de Versailles ont écrit ce livre technique abondamment illustré. C’est dire s’ils sont à même de transmettre au lecteur les procédés de leur métier en s’appuyant sur un grand nombre d’objets exceptionnels, que ce soit des meubles et des cadres, mais aussi des boiseries, des stucs et même les ornements des toits. Ainsi, il ne s’agit pas ici  uniquement d’un livre sur la dorure sur bois, mais bien un ouvrage de référence sur toutes les techniques du métier de doreur.

Après quelques réflexions sur la manière d’exercer leur profession dans le cadre du Château, les auteurs passent en revue les produits et outils utilisés. Pour ne rien laisser dans l’ombre, ils n’hésitent pas à faire des reportages chez le dernier batteur d’or de France (la maison Dauvet, active depuis 1764) ou chez un fabricant d’outils de doreurs (les fers à reparer de la maison Da Silva).

Les techniques de dorure sont ensuite longuement décrites, et d’innombrables photographies montrent les gestes et procédés utilisés par les professionnels. La dorure à la détrempe (dite aussi à dorure à l’eau ou dorure à l’assiette), la plus belle car susceptible d’un brillant incomparable, est détaillée dans ses 18 étapes. La dorure à la mixion (ou dorure à l’huile), qui est à Versailles surtout utilisée en extérieur, est ensuite expliquée. Les jeux de fonds et les autres techniques de dorure (à la grecque, sur papier, sur plâtre, sur verre, avec feuilles adhérentes) sont également exposées.

Une vingtaine de chefs-d’œuvre que renferment les collections du Château et qui ont été restaurées par l’atelier de dorure sont ensuite examinés et les interventions décrites avec une illustration riche de détails. Certaines salles ornées de boiseries sculptées et dorées sont prétexte à de magnifiques photographies illustrant le travail des doreurs d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Les dernières pages traitent de la peinture décorative (faux marbre et faux bois) souvent associée à la dorure. Le livre se termine sur un glossaire, les notices  biographiques des artisans cités, une liste de sites Internet, de fournisseurs et d’ouvrages spécialisés.

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Introduction
I. L’ATELIER
Le métier de restaurateur au château
L’atelier de restauratio
Les missions de l’atelier
Les dossiers de restauration
II. Les PRODUITS et OUTILS
Les produits de base
Le battage de l’or de nos jours
Les préparations
La fabrication de l’assiette et de la mixion
Les outils
La fabrication des fers à reparer
Le moulage
III. Les TECHNIQUES de la DORURE
La dorure à la détrempe en restauration
La dorure à la détrempe sur une pièce neuve
Les jeux de fonds
La dorure à la mixtion
Autres techniques de dorure
IV. La DORURE au CHÂTEAU
Les restaurations et réalisations
Les décors dorés à Versailles
V. Les EFFETS DÉCORATIFS
La restauration d’objets d’art et la polychromie
La peinture décorative associée à la dorure
L’ornementation et les frises

Ce livre présente la technologie de base et les différentes activités du travail du fer.
Il détaille les savoirs et les pratiques utilisés pour la réalisation d'objets simples en fer forgé.

550 color photos

Art Jewelry Today. Dona Z. Meilach. Here is a beautiful new look at contemporary art jewelry. This invaluable reference will guide those who buy, wear, collect, and create one-of-a-kind, hand-made jewelry to the newest developments and their artist/innovators. Peek into the minds of today's craftspeople to understand their motives and methods. These are today's top art jewelers whose work is often shown in art galleries and museums. Chapters present contemporary designs in gold, silver, mixed metals, found objects, glass, enamel work, and imaginative jewelry pieces that go beyond tradition. Over 540 color photographs and lots of detailed information give ideas galore to inspire jewelry makers. In the 21st century craftspeople are striving to have their work considered fine art. This book will convince doubters that today's art jeweler is creating serious sculpture regardless of its size. It is sculpture to be worn, enjoyed, and appreciated today. Here are the trend setting artists with masterpieces that will be the collectibles of the future.

This book has chapters on the Origins of Art Nouveau, Art Nouveau at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris, Major Artists and a Bibliography

A remarkable array of the most popular Art Nouveau motifs, among them graceful female figures, flowing florals, bird and animal designs, abstracts, and repeating patterns. Reproduced from rare original sources, the lovely illustrations appear in both book format and on a high-resolution, print-quality CD. 266 color and 11 black-and-white illustrations.

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For a fruitful period between the 1880s and the First World War, European and North American culture deferred to nature. With a symphony of flowing lines and organic shapes, Art Nouveau ( New Art ) inflected architecture, design, painting, graphic work, applied arts, and illustration.

Art Nouveau was deliberately nouveau. With a spirit of willful reform, its practitioners sought to distance themselves from the imitative historicism that characterized much 19th-century art and replace it with undulating, decorative qualities. Turning to vine tendrils, flowering buds, and bird feathers as ornamental reference, they pursued not only a linear freedom but also liberation from the weight of artistic tradition and expectation.

At the same time, Art Nouveau followed the example of the earlier English Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements to reject established hierarchies of artistic practice, to emphasize a return to handcraftsmanship, and to synthesize artistic media and practices into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. In this, as in its turn to nature, Art Nouveau is often seen as an aesthetic response to the Industrial Revolution, a recoil from the mass-produced and mechanic, and an elevation of the human hand and wonders of the great outdoors.

This fresh TASCHEN edition considers Art Nouveau as a broad historical phenomenon with distinct local features. We consider the style s wider artistic, economic, and political circumstances, as well as its particular flavor in such hubs as Vienna, Glasgow, Munich, Weimar, and Chicago. Outstanding proponents such as Victor Horta, Antoni Gaudi, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are featured in connection with the cities of their greatest activity. The result is a vivid portrait of the age and a movement that is as much entrenched in our imagination of the fin de siecle as it is in the trajectory of modernism.

Klaus-Jürgen Sembach is a writer, curator, and former director of the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg. He has produced numerous publications on architecture, design, photography, and film.

Although familiar with the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, most people may never have seen the fabulous and diversified women's fashion postcard sets that were designed by famous European artists and are featured in this book. Alphonse Mucha, Henri Meunier, Umberto Brunelleschi, and Xavier Sager are among the twenty distinguished artists whose work is featured. Take a magical tour through time that explores these artists' romance with fashion illustration. Also, superb unsigned images, information on postcard history, and a section on evaluating the illustrations make this a particularly useful reference. Over 230 gorgeous and colorful images will inspire students of fashion, postcard collectors, and antiques enthusiasts to peruse, study, and enjoy these beautiful images!

Magnificent collection of handsome plates, meticulously reproduced from rare portfolio by Art Nouveau master that illustrated the application of animal forms in decorative art. Not only traditional, appealing shapes of graceful swans, peacocks and dolphins, but also finely detailed depictions of creatures seldom associated with beauty and ornamentation: bats, mice, lizards, and insects.

Альбом содержит предисловие на английском, испанском, немецком, итальянском, французском, китайском и японском языках. В издание вошли великолепные элементы оформления в стиле Арт Нуво, которые можно использовать как для создания самостоятельных работ, так и для вдохновения. На прилагаемом CD-диске все иллюстрации выполнены в формате с высоким разрешением, они готовы для использования в профессиональной печати и Web-дизайне.

Illustrations:  500 color and 275 b/w graphics

In this book, 37 of Mucha's spectacularly sensuous and popular designs offer superb inspiration for artists and designers. Rendered in crisp black and white, Art Nouveau goddesses, nymphs, and Mucha's fantastic imagery of stars, floral swirls, and exotic ornaments recall the rich artistic heritage of the Belle Epoque. Included are such celebrated Mucha designs as those for Job's cigarette papers, Sarah Bernhardt in La Dame aux Camélias, and Salon des Cent, as well as many of his decorative pictorial compositions. Ideal as an artistic and design resource, Art Nouveau Figurative Designs will also appeal to colorists intrigued by the ever-popular Art Nouveau Style.

500 color photos

The streets of Budapest, Hungary, and Vienna, Austria, are rich in masterpieces of Art Nouveau ironwork. Around nearly every corner of the residential districts and business hubs of these great cities, architectural treasures wait to be appreciated by the discerning eye. 500 vivid photos show the many, varied interpretations of Art Nouveau forms used in balustrades and balconies, lanterns and gates, doorways, elevator door façades, and more. This book will inspire many to make new travel plans and will delight everyone with a passion for beautiful decorative ironwork.

Around 1900 the Pforzheim jewellery-making industry, which had been established since 1767, underwent an upturn to flourish as never before. The participation of Pforzheim businesses in the 1900 Paris World Exhibition and the thorough assimilation of a variety of influences from abroad – including the figurative French Art Nouveau style – ensured that Pforzheim Art Nouveau jewellery developed confidently towards aesthetic autonomy.

Collaboration between the jewellery industry and professors at the Pforzheim School for the Applied Arts as well as sharp eyes for new developments outside the jewellery capital shaped Pforzheim jewellery creations around 1900. Other fecund sources of colla-boration were the Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe artists and Wiener Werkstätte. The author has discovered hitherto unpublished contemporary source material and has been able to draw on hundreds of extant original pieces of jewellery – brooches, pendants, collars, hatpins and hair combs that are now in museums, private collections and on the art market – to make a choice selection for this book. Thus a living picture emerges of the diverse formal and technical -possibilities that gave rise to the design, craftsmanship and industrial manufacture characteristic of Pforzheim Art Nouveau jewellery.

Many important designers worked for the Pforzheim jewellery industry around 1900. This is the first wide-ranging survey – informative on both artists and firms and lavishly illustrated.
Artists (a selection): Franz Böres | Max Gradl | Patriz Huber | Georg Kleemann | Ferdinand Morawe | Otto Prutscher | Emil Riester | Fritz Wolber
Firms (a selection): Theodor Fahrner | Gebr. Falk | Hermann & Speck | Kollmar & Jourdan | Lauer & Wiedmann | Levinger & Bissinger | Victor -Mayer | Meyle & Mayer | A. Odenwald | Rodi & Wienenberger | F. Zerrenner