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Book Synopsis American Furniture by : John T. Kirk
Download or read book American Furniture written by John T. Kirk and published by Abradale Press. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answers questions about when, where, how, & even why a piece of furniture was made, covering three centuries of changing styles.
Author :Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley Publisher :Highlights from the Philadelph ISBN 13 :9780876332962 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (329 download)
Book Synopsis American Furniture, 1650-1840 by : Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley
Download or read book American Furniture, 1650-1840 written by Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley and published by Highlights from the Philadelph. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Furniture, 1650-1840: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art show early American furniture participated in an international visual language. This volume provides an important resource for scholars of American furniture, illuminates the cultural and mercantile life of the fledgling nation, and offers a lively introduction to the donors, curators, and personalities who have shaped the institution from its earliest days to the present"--
Book Synopsis New American Furniture by : Edward S. Cooke
Download or read book New American Furniture written by Edward S. Cooke and published by MFA Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artwork by Edward Cooke Jr.
Book Synopsis American Furniture Anatomy by : Kerry Pierce
Download or read book American Furniture Anatomy written by Kerry Pierce and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive yet highly browsable reference offers concise definitions, clear line drawings, and photographs of the elements and features that make up American furniture of all types. Written by an expert furniture maker and woodworker with over 50 years of experience, this is the most extensive and modern resource of its kind. Covering historical and contemporary furniture design, the alphabetized terms include individual elements (such as cartouche, pediment, and hood), types of furniture, and styles of design. Detailed line drawings and photos of beautiful museum pieces augment the text. Informative sidebars throughout delve into the passion and beauty behind fine furniture's artistic energy--lives of notable American furniture designers and craftsmen, guided views of masterworks, help in understanding certain styles, and more. This an invaluable tool for furniture makers, antique dealers and buyers, and anyone interested in American furniture.
Book Synopsis American Furniture Designers by : Oscar P. Fitzgerald
Download or read book American Furniture Designers written by Oscar P. Fitzgerald and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title The 20th century furniture is hot. American Furniture Designers: 1900 to the Present highlights the furniture produced by the 20 most important American furniture designers of the 20th and early 21st centuries plus a selection of the best-known European designers whose work is sold by Knoll International and Herman Miller. The designers are organized into five chapters. Introductions to each section summarize the evolution of furniture design as it evolved through the 20th and early 21st centuries. The book begins with the Arts and Crafts era before World War I; moves into the interwar period when Modernism gained a foothold in America; continues through the Postwar heyday of Mid-century Modern; highlights the furniture from the 1970s and into the 21st century with a focus on the foremost promoters of modern furniture, Knoll International and Herman Miller; and concludes with a selection of the top Studio Furniture makers and their innovative creations. The book focuses on the leading American designers from each of these periods including Gustav Stickley and Charles Rohlfs during the Arts and Crafts movement, Paul Frankl and Gilbert Rohde in the interwar period, Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson for Mid- century Modern, and Wendell Castle and George Nakashima for Studio Furniture to name just a few. All their furniture is explained and profusely illustrated with 280 color photos. For anyone curious about the modern material culture that surrounds them, the book will explain everything about American furniture from 1900 into the 21st century: when it was made, where it was made, who made it, what it was made of, how it was designed, how long it was in production, and how the furniture related to its contemporaries.
Book Synopsis Classic American Furniture by : Time-Life Books
Download or read book Classic American Furniture written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides instruction on building fine American furniture, including Windsor chairs, a Queen Anne secretary, a Pembroke table, and a four-poster bed.
Download or read book Factory Man written by Beth Macy and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.
Book Synopsis American Furniture at Chipstone by : Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque
Download or read book American Furniture at Chipstone written by Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish presentation of this fine Milwaukee collection. Two hundred pieces of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth-century American furniture. Each entry includes all known information about the particular object's history, cost, design sources, regional origin and unique qualities, as well as a photograph of the piece and a description of its salient construction features. Complimenting this rich catalogue are two essays. The first summarizes stylistic developments in the period 1680-1820 and seeks to place the Stone collection in historical perspective. The second, by Stanley Stone himself, discusses a personal approach to collecting that mixes obvious aesthetic joy and keen judgment--two qualities everywhere evident in this remarkable collection.
Book Synopsis Early American Furniture by : John Obbard
Download or read book Early American Furniture written by John Obbard and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early American Furniture is a complete and thorough field guide. In addition to the discussion of period and style and the numerous illustrations found in most books on period furniture, this book covers other topics that are equally important to the collector: understanding the furniture trade, evaluating quality, investment potential, identifying period workmanship, the ins and outs of dealers, shows, and auctions, care and conservation, repair and restoration, documentation, insurance, problems of inheritance, and coping with the misrepresentation so often encountered in the market. This is a very practical book full of information needed by the collector, particularly by the collector of average means who does not buy from the larger dealers or attend the major auctions. Written by a collector for other collectors, it deals with the many problems in building a collection. The 400 black and white illustrations are finely detailed line drawings made from authentic pieces of furniture featured in the catalogs of some of the leading auction houses. The beginning or occasional collector or anyone curious about some old family furniture will adore this handy, easy-to-use guide.
Book Synopsis The Antique Hunter's Guide to American Furniture by : Marvin D. Schwartz
Download or read book The Antique Hunter's Guide to American Furniture written by Marvin D. Schwartz and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows all types of chairs, tables, sofas, and beds made in America from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
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)
Book Synopsis American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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.
Book Synopsis Early American Furniture by : John T. Kirk
Download or read book Early American Furniture written by John T. Kirk and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute by : Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Download or read book Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute written by Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Masterpieces of American Furniture, edited by Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio, the Curator of Decorative Arts since 1989 at Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, offers concise, engaging text accompanied by exquisite photography. Essays on more than 65 finely crafted examples of American furniture encompass nearly every nineteenth-century style and explore the careers of America's preeminent cabinetmakers and shops including Charles Baudouine, Hugh and John Finlay, Edward Hutchings, John Henry Belter, Herter Brothers, R. J. Horner & Co., Kimbel and Cabus, Kilian Brothers, J. and J. W. Meeks, Anthony Quervelle, and M. & H. Schrenkeisen Mfg. Co. Each footnoted essay offers perceptive new research into historical antecedents, stylistic preferences, manufacturing techniques, and the complex nature of the nineteenth-century furniture trade."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Modern Americana Expanded Edition by : Todd Merrill
Download or read book Modern Americana Expanded Edition written by Todd Merrill and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded edition of the successful Modern Americana, this new book will bring a new audience to some of the most American-designed and produced furniture in design history. In the current world of twentieth-century design collecting, the trend has shifted away from accessible, mass-manufactured modernist furniture Like Charles Eames and George Nelson and toward designs that were custom-made or produced in very limited editions, with emphasis on American studio design of the 1940s to the 1990s. In contrast to the mass-produced mid-century furniture by Knoll and Herman Miller, American studio designs of the same period focused on novel forms and exquisite craftsmanship. Ranging from the organic shapes of George Nakashima and Vladimir Kagan to metalworks by Paul Evans, these limited production designs were highly sought after in their days by original tastemakers and movie stars. In the last decade, a revival for these rare designs began with connoisseurs such as Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs. This is an expanded edition of Modern Americana, the first full survey of the designs of this prolific but forgotten period, bringing to life again the works of Samuel Marx, Billy Haines, Wendell Castle, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Karl Springer, James Mont, J.B. Blunk, Michael Coffey, Wharton Esherick, Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Sam Maloof, Jack Rogers Hopkins, Paul Evans & Philip Lloyd Powell, Vladimir Kagan, George Nakashima, Silas Seandel, Charles Hollis Jones, Philip & Kevin LaVerne, Tommi Parzinger, Harvey Probber, Edward Wormley, John Dickinson, Arthur Elrod, and Paul Laszlo. New chapters to this edition include the work of forgotten women designers of the era; high-end furniture produced for iconic retailers such as Bonwit Teller and Bloomingdales; and new materials explored by West Coast designers.
Book Synopsis American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection by : J. Michael Flanigan
Download or read book American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection written by J. Michael Flanigan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Furniture by : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
Download or read book American Furniture written by Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Furniture 2020 by : Luke Beckerdite
Download or read book American Furniture 2020 written by Luke Beckerdite and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of American Furniture covers a diverse range of subjects, including Philadelphia woodworking, Newport cabinetmaker Christopher Townsend, mistakes in wood identification, and the woodworking buisness community.
