American furniture, 2019

American furniture, 2019

American furniture

Milwaukee : The Chipstone Foundation, 2019.

vii, 261 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map, colored ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.

749.0973 A512 2019

(OCoLC)1157160794

Journal of record in its field, American furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present--Book jacket.
Contents: “Mostly new, and very elegant”: The Several Lives of George William and Sally Fairfaxes’ London-Made Furniture / Adam T, Erby -- French & Fashionable: The Search for George and Martha Washington’s Presidential Furniture, Amy Hudson Henderson -- A Beekman Legacy: 1819 French Tapestry Chairs by John Banks of New York / Philip D. Zimmerman -- Early Eighteenth-Century Swedish-American Furniture from Wilmington, Delaware / Philip D. Zimmerman -- Book reviews -- Recent writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography / Gerald W. R. Ward
Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-251) and index.
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