French Ornamental Ironwork Designs - Dover Pictorial Archive

Brief Description: French Ornamental Ironwork Designs, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2012, is a republication of the work originally published as Specimens des Modeles Nouvellement Crees by Comptoir General des Fontes de Batiment et de Fumisterie [n.d.]. Brief Description: French Ornamental Ironwork Designs, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2012, is a republication of the work originally published as Specimens des Modaeles Nouvellement Craeaes by Comptoir Gaenaeral des Fontes de Baatiment et de Fumisterie [n.d.]. Marc Notes: French Ornamental Ironwork Designs, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2012, is a republication of the work originally published as Specimens des Modeles Nouvellement Crees by Comptoir General des Fontes de Batiment et de Fumisterie [n.d.].; Includes bibliographical references."Publisher Marketing: Selected from an extremely rare nineteenth-century catalog, this compilation offers a visual celebration of handcrafted French ironwork designs. Filled with finely rendered black-and-white images, it presents a lavish assortment of balustrades, grand balconies, brackets, and many other examples of highly stylized ornamental ironwork. This volume offers a valuable source of motifs, inspiration, and accurate details for commercial artists, designers, and craftspeople as well as architectural historians and blacksmiths and other metalsmiths.