Classic Forms is a resource for turners, craftspeople, architects & designers. Topics and designs include mouldings, columns, pedestals, vases (Kraters, tazzas, bowls and urns), balusters, sun dials, basins, tables, candlesticks, lamps, stair rails, table & chair legs, finials, handles, feet and cord pulls, ‘How to turn an object from a design’ and ‘Improving a design’. 

Highly visual, Classic Forms contains over 90 photographs, and more than 500 line drawings which can easily be used in making artefacts. It brings together in a new way foundational concepts from Ancient Greece and Rome and the extensive range of designs in many materials which have evolved from them.

Written by Stuart E Dyas, Hardcover

ISBN 9780854421909