American Furniture: 1620 To the Present Book

Published in 1981, this book is meant for both serious collector and casual admirers. During the ten years of research and writing this book required, the authors examined furniture from coast to coast, in museums and private collections. There is extensive coverage of masterpieces of every era, from the 17th century to the 1980s. However, this book is by no means restricted to these pieces, nor is it merely a catalog or collection of pictures of tables and chairs. The book has a running text along with its identification captions, which places furniture in its social and historical context. It encompasses furniture pieces made away from the furniture centers of New York, New England, and Pennsylvania, and discusses the furniture of the Southwest; Dutch, Spanish, French and Norwegian settlement furniture; furniture made in religious enclaves or as part of social or aesthetic reform movements.Exquisite line drawings reveal how antique furniture was made..and therefore how to tell a genuine antique from a forgery. Contains 100 color and 1300 Black and White Photos which frequently presents pieces in the rooms for which they were made.Read More