Production Details:

Hardback
pp 184

Description:

Classic Forms is an indispensable resource for turners, craftspeople, architects & designers. Topics and designs include mouldings, columns, pedestals, vases (Kraters, tazzas, bowls and urns), balusters, sun dials, basins, tables, candlesticks & lamps, stair rails, table & chair legs, finials, handles, feet and cord pulls, ‘How to turn an object from a design’ and ‘Improving a design’. 

Highly visual, Classic Forms contains over 90 photographs, and more than 500 line drawings which can easily be used in making artefacts. It brings together in a new way foundational concepts from Ancient Greece and Rome and the extensive range of designs in many materials which have evolved from them. It will be invaluable in workshop, studio, design office or study.

Commendation:
“Stuart Dyas’s book is an excellent and practical source for anyone interested in classical design.  It will be useful to practitioners and to many others who just want to understand classical details and forms and get them right.  It will sit on my desk.”

Professor Robert Adam
Robert Adam Architects Ltd