This volume includes articles on pineapple motif in southern furniture, the Dutch trade and its influence on seventeenth-century Chesapeake furniture, Charleston neoclassical case furniture, the Holmes-Edwards library bookcase and the origins of the German School in pre-revolutionary Charleston, eighteenth-century furniture from western Maryland, Irish influences on the cabinet trade of Virginia's Rappahannock river basin, the Huguenot furniture-makers in South Carolina, Winchester, Virginia furniture, conserving Virginia upholstered seating furniture, the transfer of furniture styles from Philadelphia to Winchester to Tennessee, the importation of London household furnishings into Charleston during the 1780s, plus book reviews and a bibliography.
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8 1/2 x 11 trim. 399 illus. (55 color). 8 figs. 3 tables. End-papers.
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LUKE BECKERDITE is the former Executive Director of the Chipstone Foundation http://www.chipstone.org/. He was previously an antique dealer and consultant and a research associate at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. Luke Beckerdite is currently a decorative arts consultant living in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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