This volume features articles on the furniture by the Potthast Brothers of Baltimore, 1892 - 1975, the early furniture of Job and Christopher Townsend, Boston Japanned furniture from1715 to1750, a study of the New Mexican Caja, seventeenth-century joined furniture from Newbury, Massachusetts, John Cadwalader's commode-seat side chairs, the Lisle family desk-and-bookcase from Rhose Island, eighteenth-century New York shranks, Edward Priestley (1778 - 1837), a Baltimore cabinetmaker, Baroque style in Philadelphia furniture, neoclassicism in Baltimore furniture, Quakers and the furniture industry in early Salem, as well as book reviews and bibliography.
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8 1/2 x 11 trim. 254 illus. (76 color). 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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THE DISTINCTIVE and cohesive style of colonial Newport furniture had much more to do with mass-producing a marketable commodity than with the refinement and perfection of furniture forms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
framed chests, tall clock case, open acct, color illus, furniture craftsmen, pier table, neoclassical furniture, architectural carving, mummy heads, cabinetmaking business, board chests, valuables cabinet, shop tradition, sideboard table, mahogany veneer, seating furniture, drawer construction, glue blocks, various makers, numerous color, liquor case, furniture forms, fancy chairs, tulip poplar, high chest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gavin Ashworth, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Potthast Bros, New Mexican, New England, Christopher Townsend, Edward Lloyd, Winterthur Museum, Native American, Baltimore County, Luke Beckerdite, Maryland Historical Society, Edward Priestley, William Camp, Chipstone Foundation, Richard Lawson, Baltimore Museum of Art, Colonial Grandeur, Baltimore Furniture Craftsmen, Baltimore Street, Interesting Facts, Long Island, United States New!
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THE DISTINCTIVE and cohesive style of colonial Newport furniture had much more to do with mass-producing a marketable commodity than with the refinement and perfection of furniture forms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
framed chests, tall clock case, open acct, color illus, furniture craftsmen, pier table, neoclassical furniture, architectural carving, mummy heads, cabinetmaking business, board chests, valuables cabinet, shop tradition, sideboard table, mahogany veneer, seating furniture, drawer construction, glue blocks, various makers, numerous color, liquor case, furniture forms, fancy chairs, tulip poplar, high chest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gavin Ashworth, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Potthast Bros, New Mexican, New England, Christopher Townsend, Edward Lloyd, Winterthur Museum, Native American, Baltimore County, Luke Beckerdite, Maryland Historical Society, Edward Priestley, William Camp, Chipstone Foundation, Richard Lawson, Baltimore Museum of Art, Colonial Grandeur, Baltimore Furniture Craftsmen, Baltimore Street, Interesting Facts, Long Island, United States New!
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- The Heart of the Functional Arts (Furniture Studio) by John Dunnigan on 5 pages
- The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rhode Island (His The new enchantment of America) by John Allan Carpenter on page 28, page 29, and page 30
- American Furniture by John S. Bowman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- American Furniture: 2 by Charles F. Montgomery in Front Matter, and page 96
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- American Furniture 2005 (American Furniture Annual) by Luke Beckerdite on 10 pages
- Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut (Studies in Industry & Society) by Professor Edward S. Cooke Jr. on 4 pages
- John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) by Morrison H. Heckscher on page 10, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Concord Museum: Decorative Arts from a New England Collection by David F. Wood on page 16, page 18, and page 48
- Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (Early American Studies) by Margaretta M. Lovell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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