This book represents an indispensable work instrument for stone-workers, planners, restorers and decorators, who can use ir as an aid in their work.
The first part of this book ilustrates items and proposals, some unpublished, for the decoration of towns, parks and gardens with numerous photographs and drawings.
It presents some of the most important urban decoration elements in the world - fountains, benches, lighting systems, statues and monuments, flower holders, columns, barriers.
It also deals with the restoration of stone monuments. This part is backed up by 345 pictures and 55 drawings.
This edition includes also photographs of 60 types of stone currently mined in Portugal with exhaustive technical information containing the geographic location of the quarries and the main uses of the material; the colours and veining of the stone were carefully reproduced.
Publisher: ANTONIO ZOPPAS EDITORE
ISBN Book IV: 88-88144-06-4
Dimensions: A4 page
Pages: 210 pages
Book writen in Italian and English
