An essential, up-to-date, and profusely-illustrated reference on New England's furniture industry. It comprehensively explores the furniture industry of New England, detailing the impact of urban communities, especially Boston, as well as the pervasiveness of regionalism, which has attracted fresh attention from scholars. The book presents informative essays on each furniture form (seating furniture, bedsteads, tables, stands, fire screens, dressing tables, high chests of drawers, chests of drawers, bureau tables, chests-on-chests, desks, desk-and-bookcases, looking glassses, and dressing glasses) and detailed entries on 225 individual objects.
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9 x 12 trim. 482 duotones. LC 96-46794
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The expertise and insight of several individuals broaden our understanding of the artisans, networks, and objects of the extensive New England furniture trade: Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, Winterthur's former senior curator and registrar respectively; curator of furniture Wendy A. Cooper; conservator Michael S. Podmaniczky; and researcher Clare G. Noyes.
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This review is from: New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur Book) (Hardcover)
For lovers of period furniture, this large book is like pressing your face against the candy store window. The Winterthur collection is the legacy of Henry Dupont. For those who haven't made the journey to Delaware, the Winterthur museum is the premier collection of colonial and early American furniture in existence. This exhaustive book focuses on the New England furniture, among the best in the collection. Each of the 225 pieces is shown in a photograph, often with several images of details. Unfortunately, the photographs are all in black and white (except the dust jacket). An average of 2-3 pages of text accompanies each piece. For the student of furniture design or the lover of fine furniture, this book is a treasure.
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HENRY FRANCIS DU PONT ASSEMBLED the core of his New England Queen Anne and Chippendale seating furniture collection before he opened Winterthur as a public museum. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vertical rectangular tenons, soft maple group, medium reddish brown color, blockfront furniture, front leg extensions, interior rabbet, front knee bracket, canted posts, molded post tops, front seat block, horsebone feet, interior corner blocks, side stretcher joints, knee brackets, hard maple group, upper forward edge, chairback settees, rosehead nails, splat edges, white pine group, splat base, house loan exhibition, baluster splat, rectangular rear legs, rectangular seat frame Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Queen Anne, New Hampshire, American Antiques, Highland House, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Thomas Chippendale, Benjamin Frothingham, John Townsend, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Bayou Bend, Furniture of Historic Deerfield, Rodriguez Roque, Connecticut River, Dean Levy, Winterthur Library, Portsmouth Furniture, Furniture Treasury, Suffolk County Probate Court, Winterthur Portfolio, Housatonic River, Long Island, Maine Antique Digest, Visual Resources Collection New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
HENRY FRANCIS DU PONT ASSEMBLED the core of his New England Queen Anne and Chippendale seating furniture collection before he opened Winterthur as a public museum. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vertical rectangular tenons, soft maple group, medium reddish brown color, blockfront furniture, front leg extensions, interior rabbet, front knee bracket, canted posts, molded post tops, front seat block, horsebone feet, interior corner blocks, side stretcher joints, knee brackets, hard maple group, upper forward edge, chairback settees, rosehead nails, splat edges, white pine group, splat base, house loan exhibition, baluster splat, rectangular rear legs, rectangular seat frame Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Queen Anne, New Hampshire, American Antiques, Highland House, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Thomas Chippendale, Benjamin Frothingham, John Townsend, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Bayou Bend, Furniture of Historic Deerfield, Rodriguez Roque, Connecticut River, Dean Levy, Winterthur Library, Portsmouth Furniture, Furniture Treasury, Suffolk County Probate Court, Winterthur Portfolio, Housatonic River, Long Island, Maine Antique Digest, Visual Resources Collection New!
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- Hidden Treasures: Searching for Masterpieces of American Furniture by Joan Barzilay Freund in Back Matter
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