THE GILDED EDGE: The Art Of The Frame
Edited By Eli Wilner
Hardcover - 204 pages (September 2000)
Chronicle Books; ISBN: 081182070X
Current Price: $350.00, shipping and handling not included (This book is currently out of print - A few signed copies are available in our gallery.)

The Gilded Edge is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the exquisite antique frames made in America over the last two centuries. Comprised of individual essays, this richly illustrated volume covers a diversity of topics. Unlike most art books that depict paintings without their frames, The Gilded Edge presents a plethora of sumptuous photographs that showcase frames in relation to the paintings they border - as works of art themselves. An accessible reference for admirers of fine and decorative art, this is an invaluable guide to making the already beautiful even more so.

Featuring

American Antique Frames: Rediscovering a Lost Art by Eli Wilner
On the Framing of Pictures by Annette Blaugrund
How the Edge Became a Center: The Rise of Interest in American Frames by Lisa Koenigsberg
American Frame References from the Late Nineteenth Century: A Scattering of Attitudes by William H. Gerdts
On Verso: Observations on the Back of the Frame by Kevin Flaherty
On the Edge of Change: Artist Designed Frames from Whistler to Marin by Suzanne Smeaton
Within Gilded Borders: The Frames of Stanford White by Nina Gray
From Parlors to Pueblos: Frames for the American West, 1855-1925 by Sally Mills
What's In a Frame? by David Park Curry
American Frames in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Carrie Rebora Barratt
Marriages, Divorces, and Reconciliations: Challenges in Framing a Museum Collection by Nancy Rivard Shaw

With a glossary, bibliography, and over 100 color illustrations

Photographs