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Author : Mary Ann Apicella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scottish Cabinetmakers in Federal New York written by Mary Ann Apicella and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the Scottish community of craftsman in Federal New York
Author : Howard B. Rock
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438417594
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book New York City Artisan, The, 1789-1825 written by Howard B. Rock and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-08-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of primary sources by and about artisans in the early national era. In a number of ways it is as significant as the many volumes by the founding fathers that now grace library shelves because artisans were at the forefront of both the political and economic developments that would make this era so formative in American history. The documents illustrate the expectations spawned by the American Revolution within this sector of American society and the efforts of the artisans. It tells the colorful, dramatic, and hopeful, if ultimately disappointing story of their efforts, and the vital part they played in the shaping of American social and labor history.
Author : Mark A. Lause
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610753869
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (538 download)
Download or read book SOME DEGREE OF POWER: Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815 (C) written by Mark A. Lause and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morrison H. Heckscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588391450
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book John Townsend written by Morrison H. Heckscher and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. Hudson Moore
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752419075
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Old Furniture Book written by N. Hudson Moore and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Old Furniture Book by N. Hudson Moore
Author : Philip D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9781882650170
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)
Download or read book American Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts from the Watson Collection written by Philip D. Zimmerman and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2004 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While demonstrating the high level of artistry attained by furniture-makers of the period, this selection in many ways reflects the evolving character of domestic life in America during a seminal period in the country's history.
Author : Philip Zimmerman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538182718
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book A Storied Past: Collections of the Historic Odessa written by Philip Zimmerman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Storied Past: Collections of the Historic Odessa captures the historical character and significance of two important late-18th-century houses, each of which retains a high percentage of original furnishings and locally made objects. Over the past several years, the collections have undergone careful examination and interpretation. One hundred are published along with four interpretive chapters. Relatively few historic sites have received this level of investigative treatment. Additionally, several of the hitherto-unpublished objects relate to others already in the decorative and fine arts lexicon. Using rich archival and genealogical sources, Philip D. Zimmerman brings to light here for the first time an extraordinary array of decorative and fine arts from the collections at the Historic Odessa Foundation. This well-documented group of family objects provides an intimate glimpse into the daily life of members of the Corbit and Wilson families in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and also sheds light on the history of Odessa, Delaware, and the larger region. Particularly strong holdings of furniture made by John Janvier and his talented sons and nephew allow informative contrasts with products made in Delaware, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. Needlework and other textiles made by Corbit and Wilson women characterize their handiwork. Other objects tell other stories. Some, labeled by their nineteenth-century owners for posterity, document evolving trends in early collecting and historic preservation. The richly illustrated book includes more than 200 photographs, including many details and historic images, along with careful physical descriptions and historical documentation. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, A Storied Past illuminates a wealth of furnishings, works of art, and artifacts with common provenances and interlocking histories and places them into the artistic, social, and historical contexts of their time. The collections documented here furnish the Corbit-Sharp (1774) and Wilson-Warner (1769) houses, built on adjoining lots by a tanner and a merchant and now maintained by the Historic Odessa Foundation. Subsequent generations valued and preserved the two houses and many furnishings. The Wilson house opened in 1923 as the first historic house museum in Delaware. The Corbit house remained in family hands until H. Rodney Sharp bought it in 1938 to preserve it. Furniture owned in the family of John Janvier, the noted cabinetmaker in Odessa, was added in the 1970s, and the Foundation has continued to acquire Corbit and Wilson family furnishings as well as locally made furniture in the years since. Those interested in historic houses and late 18th and early 19th century life, American antique collectors (especially of furniture), and those with local interests will find this book interesting.
Author : Akiko Shimbo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317131290
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754–1851 written by Akiko Shimbo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period from the publication of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director (1754) to the Great Exhibition (1851), this book analyses the relationships between producer retailers and consumers of furniture and interior design, and explores what effect dialogues surrounding these transactions had on the standardisation of furniture production during this period. This was an era, before mass production, when domestic furniture was made both to order and from standard patterns and negotiations between producers and consumers formed a crucial part of the design and production process. This study narrows in on three main areas of this process: the role of pattern books and their readers; the construction of taste and style through negotiation; and daily interactions through showrooms and other services, to reveal the complexities of English material culture in a period of industrialisation.
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book In Quest of Comfort: The Easy Chair in America written by and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. Milby Burton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473381703
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Charleston Furniture 1700 - 1825 written by E. Milby Burton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage volume contains a classic study of Charleston furniture. With over one hundred and forty authentic photographs, this guide catalogues the famous designs of some of the most sought-after furniture in North America. Contents include: “Sources of Furniture”, “English Importations”, “American Importations”, “Other Importations”, “Negro Cabinet-Makers”, “Kinds of Furniture used in Charleston”, “Kinds of Furniture Not Made in Charleston”, “Styles and Influences”, “Schools”, “Labels”, etc. Many vintage books like this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on Charleston furniture.
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 : Nancy Groce
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780918728975
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Musical Instrument Makers of New York written by Nancy Groce and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of any skilled urban trade is ultimately tied to the growth and development of the city in which it is located. From its humble eighteenth-century beginnings, instrument making grew to be one of New York City's most sizable and important trades. By the 1840s, the city was the largest producer of instruments in the Western Hemisphere, and, in the decades that followed, designs and innovations pioneered by New York artisans influenced and inspired instrument makers throughout the world. Although many of the these instruments survive in American museums, there existed no comprehensive guide to their makers. Nancy Groce's biographical dictionary chronicles all of these master craftsmen in colorful detail, from the obscure work of Geoffry Stafford in 1691, to the zenith of the 1890s, and on to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Author : Peter M. Kenny
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588394425
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Duncan Phyfe written by Peter M. Kenny and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed elite, Phyfe would come to count among his clients some of the nation's wealthiest and most storied families. This richly illustrated volume covers the full chronological sweep of the craftsman's distinguished career, from his earliest furniture-- which bears the influence of his 18th-century British predecessors Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Hope--to his late simplified designs in the Grecian Plain. More than sixty works by Phyfe and his workshop are highlighted, including rarely seen pieces from private collections and several newly discovered documented works. Additionally, essays by leading scholars bring to light new information on Phyfe's life, his workshop production, and his roster of illustrious patrons. What unfolds is the story of Phyfe's remarkable transformation from a young immigrant craftsman to an accomplished master cabinetmaker and an American icon."--Publisher's website.
Author : Tammis K. Groft
Publisher : Albany Institute of History and Art
ISBN 13 : 1438429940
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Albany Institute of History and Art written by Tammis K. Groft and published by Albany Institute of History and Art. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History and Art is one of the nation's oldest cultural institutions. Today, it boasts outstanding collections largely focused on New York State's Upper Hudson Valley. These include Hudson River School landscape paintings, portraits by Ezra Ames and Charles Loring Elliott, sculpture by Erastus Dow Palmer, landscape and interior paintings by Walter Launt Palmer, and Albany –made silver and other crafts. This comprehensive overview of the Albany Institute of History and Art's American art and decorative-arts collections, presents color plates and essays on about 130 objects (of a total exceeding 20,000). Dating from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the 1990s, each object in this volume was chosen for its national significance, artistic merit, and relevance to the Institute's mission: collecting and interpreting the art, history, and culture of New York State's Upper Hudson Valley through four centuries.
Author : Nancy Goyne Evans
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584654937
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Windsor-chair Making in America written by Nancy Goyne Evans and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the production of Windsor furniture, from one of America's premier authorities.
Author : Berry B. Tracy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts at Boscobel written by Berry B. Tracy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genesis of this volume was the discovery, in 1975, of a faded copy of the inventory of States Dyckman's possessions, taken shortly after his death in 1806. The document raised many questions about the furnishings then on display in Boscobel, and initiated a period of extensive research and reevaluation. It was the architectural beauty of Boscobel, rather than its historical associations, that guided its rescuers in the 1950's and encouraged the conception of Boscobel as States Dyckman's dreamhouse, recreating, on the banks of the Hudson, the elegance and luxury he had enjoyed during his extended sojourns in England. English and Continental furnishings were collected, and surviving examples of Dyckman's own purchases were overwhelmed by crystal chandeliers and elaborate floral carpets. --Preface.
Author : N. Hudson Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Old Furniture Book written by N. Hudson Moore and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
