American Furniture 2020
Title | American Furniture 2020 PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Beckerdite |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2020-12-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780986385773 |
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.
American Furniture Designers
Title | American Furniture Designers PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar P. Fitzgerald |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2022-04-01 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1538135639 |
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.
American Furniture, 1620 to the Present
Title | American Furniture, 1620 to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan L. Fairbanks |
Publisher | Putnam Publishing Group |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN |
Meant for both connoisseur and amateur, this is the definitive book in its field. During ten years of research, the authors examined furniture from coast to coast, in museums and private collections. American Furniture has a running text along with its identification captions, which places furniture in its social and historical context. In its 100 color pictures and 1300 black-and-white photos, the book frequently presents furniture in the rooms they were made for. There is extensive coverage of the masterpieces from the seventeenth century to the present, many of them newly photographed for this book, but coverage is by no means restricted to these pieces. This is the first book to encompass furniture "away from the mainstream"--Pieces made away from the furniture centers of New York, New England, and Pennsylvania. Thus, there is discussion of the furniture of the Southwest; furniture made in Dutch, Spanish, French, and Norwegian settlements; and furniture made in religious enclaves or as part of social or aesthetic reform movements. Also, line drawings reveal how antique furniture was made--and therefore how to tell a genuine antique from a forgery.--From publisher description.
The Antique Hunter's Guide to American Furniture
Title | The Antique Hunter's Guide to American Furniture PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin D. Schwartz |
Publisher | Black Dog & Leventhal Pub |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9781579121082 |
This book shows all types of chairs, tables, sofas, and beds made in America from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
American Furniture, 1650-1840
Title | American Furniture, 1650-1840 PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley |
Publisher | Highlights from the Philadelph |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780876332962 |
"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"--
American Furniture 2013
Title | American Furniture 2013 PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Beckerdite |
Publisher | American Furniture Annual |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-12-31 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780982772232 |
An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts
American Furniture 2015
Title | American Furniture 2015 PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Beckerdite |
Publisher | |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2016-03-15 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780982772270 |
An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts