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RR GR
Collection
Publication
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1962.
Description
The best-selling guide to keeping furniture in the finest and most beautiful condition, with complete information on proper repair and refinishing techniques from the legendary expert on antiques and their restoration. B & W photographs throughout
User reviews
LibraryThing member marfita
Buy it for its wisdom, read it for the fun. Grotz knows all about faking antiques, although he wonders why people bother. They build perfectly good reproductions and then toss them in a swamp for a few weeks to "age" them, just so they can put something over on the consumer. The book is full of
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great furniture care advice and fun. There's always a copy in some used booksale. Buy it - it's timeless. Show Less
LibraryThing member MsMixte
Absolutely hilarious reading, and some useful tips too! If you don't look at 'antiques' with a jaundiced eye after reading this book--I have a bridge to sell you.
LibraryThing member BondLamberty
Fabulous resource for anyone who owns items made of wood. I actually used it as my guide when stripping, dying and refinishing my husband's great-grandmother's dining room table. Trust him!
Language
Original publication date
1962
1983 (Revised & Expanded)
Physical description
286 p.; 22 cm