Tiranti

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Tiranti is a business based in Thatcham, Berkshire, England, that supplies sculptors' tools, materials and equipment. It also supplies materials for carving, mouldmaking, modelling, restoration and casting. The firm dates back to 1895 when it was founded by Giovanni (John) Tiranti.[1] In the twentieth century it was a noted art publisher as Alec Tiranti with a specialism in sculpture and furniture.

Publishing

Among the books the firm published was R.W. Symonds' Veneered walnut furniture 1660-1760 (1947), and Frederick Gibberd's Built in Furniture in Great Britain in 1948. In 1951 they published architect and furniture designer Ernő Goldfinger's British Furniture Today[2] and in 1955, Joan Liversidge's Furniture in Roman Britain.

In sculpture and art they published pioneering sculptor Leon Underwood's Masks of West Africa in 1951 and his Figures in wood of West Africa in 1964. Masks was praised in review for the dual French-English text and the inclusion of photographs of masks previously unillustrated.[3] Techniques were an important part of their output and they published New materials in Sculpture by Hubert Montagu Percy in 1962 and Modelled Portrait Heads by T.B. Huxley-Jones, together with a series of technical booklets.

References

  1. ↑ About Us. Tiranti. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  2. ↑ The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record, Volume 165 (1951), p. 426.
  3. ↑ "Review: Figures in Wood of West Africa by Leon Underwood Reviewed Works: Figures in Wood of West Africa by Leon Underwood; Masks of West Africa by Leon Underwood; The Golden Age of West African Civilisation by R. E. G. Armattoe". Review by: E.M., The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 90, No. 544 (July 1948), p. 213.
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