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Recueil elémentaire d'architecture : contenant plusieurs etudes des ordres d'architecture d'après l'opinion des anciens et le sentiment des modernes, differents entrecolonnements propres a l'ordonnances [!] des façades, divers exemples de décorations extérieures et interieures, a l'usage des monuments sacrés, publics, et particuliers

Neufforge, Jean François de, 1714-1791 · 1757 · A Paris : Chez l'auteur ... · 28 pictures

An 18th-century French architectural pattern book by Jean François de Neufforge, published in Paris in 1757 for architects and builders, presenting elementary studies of classical orders, façade bays and interior and exterior decoration. The plates are precise engraved elevations and sections of columns, cornices, arched window bays and sculpted panels, with clean black linework on pale paper that a designer could adapt for classical ornament, facade rhythm and moulding profiles.

Architecture -- Designs and plans · Architecture -- Details

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