Cast Iron Decoration
A World Survey
E. Graeme Robertson
Joan Robertson
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| ‘Admirably planned and abundantly illustrated, an outstanding work of reference’ | | – Architectural Review |
| ‘This handsome volume is a work of scholarship ... one must pay tribute to the quality of the photographs ... pictorially beautiful’ | | – RSA Journal |
In the nineteenth century there was an amazing flowering of ironwork forms, mass produced and widely distributed, but of extreme variety and richness of design. Too often they have been overlooked, or referred to mistakenly as ‘wrought iron’.
E. Graeme Robertson’s interest began decades ago with the realization that cast iron was being destroyed because its aesthetic value was not recognized. To remedy this situation he wrote a number of books on Australian ironwork and then, with his daughter Joan, travelled all over the world to compile this superb photographic inventory of the forms taken by cast iron ornamentation, its national variations, its relationship to architecture and its contribution to the attractiveness of buildings.
Supported by introductory texts, glossary and bibliography,
Cast Iron Decoration will be welcomed by art historians, architects, designers and anyone who cares for our global
cultural heritage.
Dr E. Graeme Robertson was a renowned authority on cast iron, both in his native Australia and elsewhere. Joan Robertson, his daughter, assisted in the research and photography for many of the books he wrote on the subject.
Also of interest:
The Arts and Crafts Companion |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500232547 | | ISBN-13 978-0500232545 | | | | 28.1 x 22.7 cm | | Hardback | | 336pp | | 521 illustrations | | First published 1977 | | | | £35.00 | | | |  | | | | 
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