Asian Furniture: A Directory and Sourcebook

Every now and again a truly sumptuous book comes along: a book of lush photography and extravagant presentation that quickly renders the reviewer into submission. How is one to put into prose the aesthetic experience? How churlish it would be to find fault! This is such a book.

The book has 451 high quality colour photographs generously displayed on large format pages (12 inches high by 11 inches deep) – maybe a tad too deep for comfort on standard shelves. It is a book more suited for the library coffee table; a table such as that from the Philippines illustrated...