This well referenced book provides an amply illustrated publication on upholstery conservation which discusses and reviews the issues related to the care, interpretation and treatment of upholstered furniture.

Through many well illustrated case studies the inter-disciplinary collaboration fundamental to upholstery conservation, and the complex decision-making process involved in the treatment of upholstered furniture, are made evident. The case histories are contributed by leading international practitioners in the field and concern objects and collections in the care of English Heritage, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other internationally renowned institutions.

Likewise, the contributors, from both sides of the Atlantic, are world-renowned specialists and leaders in this area of conservation working for the public and private sectors. The case histories, illustrated in colour, black and white and specially prepared line drawings, concern object treatment and documentation, the conservation of information, the function and the artefact. They range from the documentation of eighteenth century removable chair covers and the treatment of a nineteenth century carriage to a twentieth century foam-filled chair belonging to a museum.

Auteur

Kathryn GillKathryn (Kate) Gill is Senior Conservator and Lecturer at the Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton. She specialises in the conservation of textiles and upholstery; she also teaches, and supervises postgraduate projects. She has worked on both sides of the Atlantic and has played a key role in developing upholstery conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and in the UK. Her aim has been to enhance the standard of upholstery conservation and documentation, while maintaining craft knowledge and skills. She has published widely, and is co-author (with Sherry Doyal) of the upholstery sections in Conservation of Furniture, edited by Nick Umney (forthcoming). She recently led the Upholstery Conservation Forum and Course at West Dean, Sussex. AMUKIC.
Dinah EastopDinah Eastop is Senior Lecturer at the Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton. She had in-service training in textile conservation with Dr Karen Finch, OBE, FIIC and with Dr Mechtild Flury-Lemberg at the Abegg-Stiftung, Switzerland. She has worked at the Textile Conservation Centre since 1976 as Conservator, Tutor and as Director from 1988 to 1991. She was Assistant Coordinator of the Textiles Working Group of ICOM-CC, 1990-3 and 1996-9, and was elected a Fellow of IIC in 1993. She was an appointed member of the Expert Panel set up by the Museums and Galleries Commission (UK) for Standards in the Museum Care of Costume and Textiles, 1995-8. She is active in developing the scholarly foundations of textile conservation. She is co-author with Dr Agnes Timár-Balázsy of Chemical Principles of Textile Conservation, 1998 and is Deputy Editor of UKIC's journal Tioe Conservator. Her current interests are in material culture, expanding the social sciences base of textile conservation, and promoting practice-based research. AMUKIC

Contenu

Introduction, Dinah Eastop, Kathryn Gill; Part 1 Object Treatment; Chapter 1 The Ernest Race 'Heron' chair and footstool, designed c.1955, Kathryn Gill; Chapter 2 The Lawrence Alma-Tadema settee, designed c.1884-85, Kathryn Gill; Chapter 3 William Burges' Mermaid chair, c.1870, Sherry Doyal, Dinah Eastop; Chapter 4 Developments in untacked re-upholstery, Derek Balfour, Simon Metcalf, Frances Collard; Chapter 5 Reconciling conservation and interpretation, Nancy C. Britton; Chapter 6 Documentation and conservation of carriage trimming, Nicola Gentle; Chapter 7 Ethafoam ® treatments for two eighteenth-century French chairs, Elizabeth G. Lahikainen; Chapter 8 Preserving a inid-nineteenth-century decorative scheme, Lesley Wilson; Part 2 Documentation; Chapter 9 Seat furniture at the court of Henry VIII, Maria Hayward; Chapter 10 Eighteenth-century close-fitting detachable covers preserved at Houghton Hall, Kathryn Gill; Chapter 11 Evidence from artefacts and archives, Crosby Stevens;