Another option in England isPeriod House, by Jackson & Day, which goes into extensive detail about common interior architectural elements for restorers. In Germany, the best book on period construction I’ve found isKonstruction Und Form Im Bauen, by Friedrich Hess. There are lots of very nice...
NEW YORK (AP) — The new documentary “High & Low — John Galliano” covers all the complexities of the famous British designer, one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in the fashion industry.
Because woodworking using had tools was labor intensive, and because prices for items like furniture was usually set by local organizations, only surfaces which were seen were finished to a highly smooth surface. here’s a photo of the underside of a table in the Chicago Art Institute. You ca...
Fashion Designer Paul Carroll launches his 2015...Angelica Acevedo
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in thei...
I think that the Pareto Principle is technically true in a lot of fields, but I also feel our society would be a lot better off if we didn’t know about it. As I said, doing the last 80% of the work to produce only the final 20% of the result is hard on morale. It’s no ...
t have to be that subtle. It could be a bricked up window, a stairway in an odd but obviously not original location. or maybe the wallpaper in a room is torn in one corner, revealing three other layers behind it, or there are scorch marks on the wooden kitchen floor in front of ...
Environmental problems represent one of the most intensive focuses in the world. At present, the rate of environmental damage caused by peoples’ consumption of products and services is still far faster than the rate of regeneration, processing, and recycling of natural ecosystems. In the face of...
in 1862, his firm already had produced some 450,000 guns in 16 different models. Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company produced the pistols most widely used during theAmerican Civil War, and its six-shot single-action .45-calibrePeacemaker model, introduced in 1873, became the most-...