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Download or read book American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Sack
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316765930
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (659 download)
Download or read book American Treasure Hunt written by Harold Sack and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1986 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the growth of his family's antique business, offers a profile of his father, the business's founder, and describes the people and museums who collect antique furniture
Author : Dallas Museum of Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Furniture in the Bybee Collection written by Dallas Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important and valuable . . . and distinguishes itself among the recent crop of American furniture catalogues as a book seriously intent on capturing objective visual information in its many high-quality photographs. --Decorative Arts Society Newsletter
Author : Oscar P. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442270403
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book American Furniture written by Oscar P. Fitzgerald and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the latest scholarship, this comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey tells the story of the evolution of American furniture from the 17th century to the present. Not viewed in isolation, furniture is placed in its broader cultural, historic, and aesthetic context. The focus is not only on the urban masterpieces of 18th century William and Mary, Queen Anne, Chippendale, and Federal styles but also on the work of numerous rural cabinetmakers. Special chapters explore Windsor chairs, Shaker, and Pennsylvania German furniture which do not follow the mainstream style progression. Picturesque and anti-classical explain Victorian furniture including Rococo, Renaissance, and Eastlake. Mission and Arts and Crafts furniture introduce the 20th century. Another chapter identifies the eclectic revivals such as Early American that dominated the mass market throughout much of the 20th century. After World War II American designers created many of the Mid-Century Modern icons that are much sought after by collectors today. The rise of studio furniture and furniture as art which include some of the most creative and imaginative furniture produced in the 20th and 21st centuries caps the review of four centuries of American furniture. A final chapter advises on how to evaluate the authenticity of both traditional and modern furniture and how to preserve it for posterity. With over 800 photos including 24 pages of color, this fully illustrated text is the authoritative reference work.
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Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Antiques written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frances Gruber Safford
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392333
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Frances Gruber Safford and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metropolitan Museum's preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the 17th and early 18th centuries--from chairs and other seating to tables, boxes, various types of chests and cupboards, and desks. Each of the 141 objects is thoroughly described with detailed information on provenance, construction, condition, inscriptions, dimensions, and materials. Photographed anew in color for this volume, each piece is explicated in terms of the styles and craftsmanship of the period and is evaluated in light of comparative pieces in public and private collections throughout the country. One appendix contains photographic details of construction and decorative elements, and another has drawings of joints and moldings.
Author : Brock Jobe
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780912724683
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Harbor & Home written by Brock Jobe and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented for the first time, the richly illustrated findings of the Southeastern Massachusetts Furniture project at Winterthur Museum
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870994271
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication documents The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of early colonial furniture and presents a broad spectrum of furniture forms made in America during the 17th and early 18th centuries, including chairs and other seating, tables, boxes, various types of chests and cupboards, dressing tables, and desks. The volume also includes prime examples of the different modes of ornamentation in fashion during that period. Over 140 objects are thoroughly described, with detailed information given on each one's construction, condition, dimensions, materials, and inscriptions and other marks, as well as provenance and exhibition history. Every object is explained in terms of the styles and craftsmanship of the period and evaluated in light of comparative pieces in public and private collections throughout the country. Also included is one appendix containing photographic details of construction and decorative elements, and another with line drawings explaining furniture terms and showing various types of joints and moldings. This is the first volume in a series of two that is dedicated to American furniture in the Museum. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820328058
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Neat Pieces written by and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neat Pieces is a detailed, extensively illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the "plain style" of furniture made and used by Georgians in the 1800s. Simply designed, solidly constructed of local woods, and usually unadorned, such pieces were used daily by their owners for storage, sleeping, eating, and more. Today, this furniture is read by historians, folklorists, and other experts for clues into a past way of life. It is also prized by museums, antiques dealers and auction houses, and furniture appraisers, collectors, and makers. Neat Pieces first appeared as the companion volume to the Atlanta History Center's seminal 1983 exhibit of the same name. The exhibit featured 126 exemplary pieces of furniture, including chairs, tables, huntboards, washstands, and candlestands. Each of them is described and illustrated in this book. Photographs in the original edition of Neat Pieces were black-and-white; here they are color. A new foreword by Deanne Levison looks at related publications and exhibits of the subsequent two decades. The introduction, by William W. Griffin, provides information on furniture forms, nomenclature, and finishes. Also included in the book is a list of more than twelve hundred nineteenth-century Georgia furniture craftsmen, with key details of their lives and work. 126 exemplary pieces of furniture (including chairs, tables, huntboards, washstands, and candlestands) 172 color photographs, 17 black-and-white photographs Information on furniture forms, nomenclature, and finishes Details about more than twelve hundred nineteenth-century Georgia furniture craftsmen
Author : John G. Shea
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486144194
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Making Authentic Country Furniture written by John G. Shea and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVIllustrated exploration of principal designs used in North America over past 400 years. 95 measured drawings enable woodworkers to construct for candlestand, pedestal table, rocker, corner cupboard, cradle, armoire, many more. /div
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Magazine Antiques written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward S. Cooke
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393024692
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Upholstery in America & Europe written by Edward S. Cooke and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upholstery in America fills a large gap in our knowledge of the decorative arts.
Author : Maryalice Huggins
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 1429935952
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Aesop's Mirror written by Maryalice Huggins and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything I needed to know about Fox and Grapes mirror, I knew the moment I first saw it" What antiques restorer Maryalice Huggins knew when she stumbled across the mirror at a country auction in Rhode Island was this: She was besotted. Rococo and huge (more than eight feet tall), the mirror was one of the most unusual objects she had ever seen. Huggins had to have it. The frame's elaborate carvings were almost identical to a famous eighteenth-century design. Could this be eighteenth-century American? That would make it rare indeed. But in the rarefied world of American antiques, an object is not significant unless you can prove where it's from. Huggins set out to trace the origins of her magnificent mirror. Fueled with the delightfully obsessive spirit of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, Aesop's Mirror follows Huggins on her quest as she goes up against the leading lights of the very male world of high-end antiques and dives into the historical archives. And oh, what she finds there! The mirror was likely passed down through generations of the illustrious Brown family of Providence, Rhode Island. Throughout history, mirrors have been seen as having mystical powers, enabling those who peer into them to connect the past and the future. In Aesop's Mirror, Maryalice Huggins does just that, creating a marvelous, one-of-kind book about a marvelous, one of-a-kind American treasure.
Author : Glenn Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635574595
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Craft written by Glenn Adamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day. At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn Adamson turns that narrative on its head in this innovative account, revealing makers' central role in shaping America's identity. Examine any phase of the nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there-from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea into Boston Harbor, to today's “maker movement.” From Mother Jones to Rosie the Riveter. From Betsy Ross to Rosa Parks. From suffrage banners to the AIDS Quilt. Adamson shows that craft has long been implicated in debates around equality, education, and class. Artisanship has often been a site of resistance for oppressed people, such as enslaved African-Americans whose skilled labor might confer hard-won agency under bondage, or the Native American makers who adapted traditional arts into statements of modernity. Theirs are among the array of memorable portraits of Americans both celebrated and unfamiliar in this richly peopled book. As Adamson argues, these artisans' stories speak to our collective striving toward a more perfect union. From the beginning, America had to be-and still remains to be-crafted.
Author : Edgar G. Miller
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473357667
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Interesting Details on Antique American Furniture - Notes on Carving, Legs, Fittings and Upholstery written by Edgar G. Miller and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Author : Thatcher Freund
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
ISBN 13 : 9780140244809
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Objects of Desire written by Thatcher Freund and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freund explores the high-stakes world of American antiques collecting. He focuses on three of the most highly valued pieces at the prestigious 1991 Americana Week in New York. Tracing their histories and showing how they came to be at the heart of the antiques market, Freund also shares the fascinating history of how the world of antiques evolved.
Author : Robert Shaw
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402747731
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (477 download)
Download or read book American Quilts written by Robert Shaw and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This photographed book covers the historical panorama of quiltmaking in the United States, from the quintessential patterns to their cultural significance.--[Book jacket.].
