Antiques

Japanese Antique Furniture: Guide To Evaluating And Restoring

This guide is a practical introduction to identifying, evaluating, purchasing and restoring Japanese furniture. The work presents 19 common types of wooden furniture, with an easy-to-follow restoration procedure in 23 steps. Advice is provided for caring for your antiques subsequent to restoration, along with a checklist of evaluation points and appendices listing antique shops, fairs and flea markets in the Tokyo area.

…
Buy Japanese Antique Furniture: Guide To Evaluating And Restoring at Amazon

Related articles by Zemanta

• Are Antiques Green? Not a Simple Answer (treehugger.com)
• Dog Drama & Red Bull Antiques (timesunion.com)
• gitta gschwendtner: furniture life (designboom.com)
• 12 Offbeat Office Interiors & Innovative Desk Designs (weburbanist.com)
• America’s best flea markets (cnn.com)
• Check out the Gran Turismo 5 real-world side-by-side images (destructoid.com)
• What’s Your Design Style? (realtyresolve.com)
• The Art and Thought Driving Modern Bedroom Furniture Design (chictip.com)
• Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXII: Looks like “WeFound” a total Kindle ripoff (engadget.com)
• The view from my Living Room (timesunion.com)

Related Posts

• Antique Furniture : About Edwardian Furniture
• Antique Furniture : Antique Dealer Essentials
• Antique Furniture : How to Rent Space at an Antique Mall
• Antique Furniture : How to Evaluate Antique Furniture
• Antique Furniture : How to Auction a House

        

This entry was posted on Friday, August 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm and is filed under Antiques Furniture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Japanese Antique Furniture: Guide To Evaluating And Restoring”

1. Xia Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

   5.0 out of 5 stars
   Very informative
   I learned a lot from this book about the types of Japanese furniture as well as fine details to help me evaluate pieces.

2. Uriel Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 4:50 pm

   This book contains very good detailed descriptions of pieces, plus place and time of manufacture. It includes a number of small pieces, as well as the more common tansu.

   Restoration of antiques is currently questioned, but methods shown here are not appropriate. Sanding, especially with a belt or other powered sander, destroys original hand-planed surfaces. Sandpaper also adds its own scratches to metal parts; steel wool is preferable for removing loose rust. The Heinekens’ book “Tansu” describes a better metal coloring than spray paint. A few nicks and scratches are part of the piece’s history, and small splits in the back do not affect its usefulness. Unlike the frame-and-panel European and American furniture, many tansu were not designed to accommodate effects of humidity changes on wood dimensions, and a repaired back panel will continue to move seasonally. When pulling nails, a piece of sheet metal under the wirecutters would prevent denting metal or wood parts. Since the Clarkes were in Japan, they could have bought much more appropriate tools than the ones shown, and some of the ones shown should never be used for this work. Japanese woodworking tools were just becoming available in the US in the early 1980s, but restorers should look for them now.

3. What Antique Furniture Says:
   August 30th, 2009 at 12:23 am

   where i can buy this book ? how much does it cost ?

Leave a Reply