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British Furniture 1820 to 1920
- British Furniture 1820 to 1920 - The Luxury Market is the major work in its field, a stunning achievement and a landmark publication - The first book to properly assess the work of British Furniture makers through the 19th century, among them great names such as Gillows, Maples, Hollands and Morris & Co - In over 600 pages, all lavishly illustrated, the author creates the new and definitive work on this subject - Christopher Payne, a former director of Sotheby's, is an independent furniture historian and well-known author who has appeared on the BBC Antiques Roadshow - for over 30 years British Furniture 1820 to 1920 is the first book on the subject for several decades and the only book ev...
High Crimes and Low Stakes
The professors at the American University of the Southern Balkans, AUSB, have become lazy, complacent and resistant to change, so when a new reforming departmental chair is appointed with a brief to shake them up, they mount a witch hunt to have him fired. At the same time the US president is trying to push forward a plan to replace all NATO airbases with stations of unmanned drones capable of carrying nuclear weapons. He decides to sell the plan secretly and the first country to be approached is the small country in Southeast Europe where AUSB is located. An election is due and the pro-western prime minister must win if the plan is to succeed. The CIA agent who fixes the election is also the provost of the American university. Two political threads - the high crimes of government and the low stakes bitter politics of the university common room - are interwoven in this satire of intrigue, double-dealing and political corruption.
Made in America
A photographic celebration of how things are made, honoring the workers who bring craft, passion, and technological savvy to American manufacturing—both traditional and cutting-edge For the past ten years, Christopher Payne has embarked on a photographic journey to learn more about American manufacturing and the industries that built this country. He has gained access to a world that continues to thrive, although not many have been privy to its history and intricacies until now. Showcasing the past, present, and the future, Payne explores both old-school factories, such as New England’s textile mills that have survived by staying exactly the same and proudly producing on vintage equipmen...
European Furniture of the 19th Century
A detailed and lavishly illustrated work that explores 19th century European furniture in great depth.
Encounters with a Fat Chemist
Chris Payne writes a hilarious surreal account of life as a university professor at a dysfunctional university in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. On the beautiful island of Cyprus, little works as you expect it to, from the primitive plumbing to the maniacal university bus service. The American Institute of Cyprus is a seat of higher learning like no other. The place is chaotically organised for the students who attend class only if they feel like it. They cheat on their exams, photocopy textbooks illicitly with university approval, and deliberately fail their courses to avoid military service. Meanwhile, the management spends its time devising all sorts of ingenious money-raising scams and schemes to cheat students and teachers alike, while the AIC owners business strategy is to sell as many university degrees as he can alongside his cake shops and motorcycle franchises. But then, as everyone says, this is Cyprus, an Edenic Mediterranean paradise where everyone is on the make and the only guiding principle is money is money.
Payne's Pain for God's Glory
This book is The Transformation from being a massive partying young man into an AWESOME Praying man. You'll read how a horrible wreck and brain surgery actually saved my life Spiritually though God's Amazing Works and Grace working all around, in and through me. You'll read how I was the best partier I could be. And how after suffering through brain surgery, I learned to seek God and fulfill His Will for the rest of my life. Simply buy this book and read it and then see if you don't feel God leading you to become a New Man in Him every day He carries you to, over and through. Just give God a chance and see Him doing AWESOME things in your life too!
The Chieftain
True crime stories from the early days of the Metropolitan Police Detective Branch capture the essence of Victorian crime George Clarke joined the Metropolitan Police in 1841. Though a slow starter, his career took off when he was transferred to the small team of detectives at Scotland Yard in 1862, where he became known as The Chieftain. This book paints the most detailed picture yet published of detective work in mid-Victorian Britain, covering murders most foul, slums and Society, the emergence of terrorism related to Ireland, and Victorian frauds. One particular fraudster, Harry Benson, was to contribute to the end of Clarke's career and lead to the first major Metropolitan Police corruption trial in 1877. This fascinating book uses widespread sources of information, including many of Clarke's own case reports.
New York's Forgotten Substations
His photographs and detailed drawings bring these lost treasures to life, while his text tells their story. Anyone interested in the art of industrial America will find this book a delight."--BOOK JACKET.
Paris Furniture
Despite the upheavals of the first decades of the nineteenth century, Paris soon recovered its position as a leading centre for furniture and design in Europe, a position that was to grow and strengthen as the century progressed. Encouraged by royal and imperial regimes, exhibited at the great international fairs, and collected by international aristocrats, bankers and newly wealthy industrialists, Paris furniture by the second half of the century had once again become synonymous with luxury and exquisite craftsmanship. Furniture makers drew their inspiration from a vast array of historical periods and cultural sources to create new and exciting designs that both appealed to the eclectic tas...
Making Steinway
Photographer Christopher Payne was granted unique access to the legendary Steinway & Sons factory in Astoria, New York. The result was this ravishing book showing every aspect of the making of the world's finest pianos.
