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Item Number: 148768
Title: Macro to Micro: Examining Architectural Finishes
Author: Jablonski, Mary A. ; Kirsten Travers Moffitt (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781909492608
Description: London: Archetype, 2018. 30cm., pbk., 236pp., 138 color, 31 b&w illus.

Contents: The original appearance of the 'painted chamber' in Huis de Dieu, Alkmaar (1742-1744): the discovery of a remarkable finish, Ige Verslype (et al) ; History of painted façades from the Middle Ages to the 20th century in Flanders (Belgium), Ann Verdonck and Marjolein Deceuninck ; Limewashed island: architectural finishes in early Bermuda, Edward A. Chappell and Kirsten Travers Moffitt ; Kalsomine paint: ubitquitous but ephemeral, Mary Jablonski ; Conservation research for architectural ceiling paintings in Donghua Men (the east city entrance gate), the Forbidden City, Beijing, Li Guanghua (et al) ; Determining the early 18th-century colour scheme of the Golden Room in the Mauritshuis, The Hague: interpretation issues caused by changes to paint chemistry , Margriet van Eikema Hommes (et al) ; Exterior colour schemes of historic wooden buildings in the Kassisaba District of Tallinn, Estonia, Claudia Valge ; Analytical techniques in architectural paint research: HMS Victory as a case study , Meredith Freeman ; Challenges in distinguishing ochreous colours: examining differences between ochre and raw sienna and their importance in the context of replicating historical finishes, Anne Milnes ; From pigment particles to parlor walls: contemporary practice in the reproduction of historic paints, Erika Sanchez Goodwillie and Christopher Mills ; Finding the right yellow: fine tuning a color in Stenton's Yellow Lodging Room, Catherine S. Myers and Laura C. Keim ; W.R. Emerson's Eustis house: interior decorative finishes of an Aesthetic Movement masterpiece, Amy Cole Ives ; The tasteful tenement: forgotten finishes at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, Stephanie M. Hoagland ; The Government Hospital for the Insane: a finish analysis of the Center Building, St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC, Amanda Edwards ; Investigation of paint instability and conservation requirements for decorative auditorium and library ceilings, Nancy E. Binnie (et al) ; K.B. Hallen: a modernist building in the transition between tradition and industrial evolution, Jo Bornemann Mogensen (et al) ; Making the traditional non-traditional: the architectural finishes of Frank Lloyd Wright, Dorothy S. Krotzer and Lauren Drapala ; 'Derailing' the myth of Gilded Age decoration in the Grand Isle private railcar: a case study of the painted ceiling panels, Emily Wroczynski (et al) ; Sgraffito murals in Israel: documentation and conservation, Shay Farkash and Mika Tal ; A DDT clear coating and wallpaper for the American home, Judith M. Jacob ; Investigating architectural finishes and surfaces: using an online documentation tool to examine historical colour schemes, Edwin Verweij and David Edvardson ; Experiencing ancient polychromy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's temple of Dendur, Erin A. Peters, Matt Felsen and Maria Paula Saba ; Using image processing to understand 20th-century architectural colour schemes in Singapore, Yeo Kang Shua (et al) ; The on-site pre-embedding of samples for paint cross-sections, Nynne Raunsgaard Sethia ; Interpretation of cross-sections to characterize preparatory and design layers and guide decorative paint exposure work, Melissa McGrew.

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