Treasury of Ironwork Designs: 469 Examples from Historical Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive)

Изумительная книга. Прекрасный набор великолепных эскизов. Служит мне источником вдохновения!An amazing book. A wonderful set of great designes. It's serves me as a source of inspiration!

Great work - jammed with ideas for my illustration work

I've worked in the Ornamental Iron business for 3 years as a designer and business manager. I use this book more than any other for generating some fresh, usually more elaborate design ideas. There are a number of styles represented in the many drawings. If you are interested in seeing unique and interesting wrought iron designs you will not be disappointed.

Granted, I bought this book because I wanted a source for classic european ironwork, and this book does the trick. I would have loved, however, that the designs showed the source, or at least a list at the end of the book of the places and eras of these designs. It's not the same to have a nice design made, than to have one made and then brag about how it's a replica of the one "in am 18th century French chateau".

The pictures were a bit too small to really see and understand what you are looking at.

This book is chock full of illustrations! It has gates, doors, door arches, stair railings, and fence sections. It runs the gamut from simple to very intricate designs. If you are a designer, this is a great resource. If you just appreciate design, you will enjoy browsing through it.

I have a different use for this book than perhaps the typical buyer. I bought it because I love adapting these iron designs into borders or patterns for my pen and ink drawings and paintings. Each page was such a delight when I discovered this book I bought it immediately. You need not use it as a home furnishings book. It works just as well as an inspiring art book.

I enjoyed this very much. I wish there could have been more photographs, but that would have been a different book. This is almost exclusively line drawings.Very helpful and informative. Warning: trying to duplicate these in decorative metal today is *expensive*. Architectural salvage might be more affordable than starting from scratch.

A very useful book for restoration ironworkers

シンプルに、ただひたすらに鉄柵のデザイン(モノクロ）が紹介された本。デザイン数の多さには圧巻！植物や幾何学模様をモチーフとしたデザインの数々は工芸やトールペイントなどの模様のヒントづくりにおススメです。

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An excellent resorce for architectural blacksmiths. Some lovely designs