Why do old buildings and furniture simply look right? George R. Walker and Jim Tolpin answer that in By Hand & Eye: the pre-industrial world designed by proportion, not measurement, using ratios worked out by hand and eye rather than dimensions from a plan.
The book teaches that design language, historical and practical, so you can generate your own well-proportioned work instead of copying someone else's. Published by Lost Art Press, it changes how you see everything you build afterward.
Specifications:
- Authors: George R. Walker and Jim Tolpin
- Length: 200 pages, full color
- Format: case-bound and sewn, cotton cloth over hardback boards with black matte stamp, #80 matte coated paper
- Content: pre-industrial proportions (1:2, 3:5, 4:5), dividers as the design tool, exercises for the inner eye, nine projects
- Published by: Lost Art Press, produced and printed in the USA
