American furniture 2015

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Beckerdite, Luke

Publisher

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Chipstone Foundation, 2015

Language

English

ISBN

9780982772270

Series

Subject(s)

• FURNITURE
• FURNITURE-UNITED STATES-HISTORY

Notes

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Abstract

Presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. This award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century on wards.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

241 p.

Dimension

29 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Editorial statement / Luke Beckerdite --
Barnard Eaglesfield : a prominent Philadelphia cabinetmaker revealed / Jay Robert Stiefel --
The notebook of Philadelphia joiner John Widdifield / Luke Beckerdite --
Sulfur-inlaid furniture : new insights on materials and techniques / Mark Anderson, Brenda Hornsby Heindle, and Jennifer Mass --
Sulfur inlay in Pennsylvania German furniture : new discoveries / Lisa Minardi --
Book reviews. Kem Weber : designer and architect, Christopher Long / review by Nonie Gadsden ; In plain sight : discovering the furniture of Nathaniel Gould, Kemble Widmer and Joyce King, with essays by Glenn Adamson, Daniel Finamore, Dean Thomas Lahikainen, and Elisabeth Garrett Widmer / review by Joshua Lane ; Made in the Americas : the New World discovers Asia, Dennis Carr, with contributions by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Timothy Brook, Mitchell Codding, Karina H. Corrigan, and Donna Pierce / review by William Sargent ; Early seating upholstery : reading the evidence, Leroy Graves / review by Jonathan Prown --
Recent writing on American furniture : a bibliography / Gerald W.R. Ward.

Exemplar(s)

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1.	01397/16	749.0973 Ame	Library - 7th Floor	Available