Masterpieces of furniture, in photo. and measured drawings / Verna Cook Salomonsky. With a new bibliography by Adolph K. Placzek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shipway, Verna Cook, 1890-1978.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Furniture.

Furniture--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 101 plates, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Dover Publications, [1953]

Summary:

Over 500 drawings scaled to 1/16" of pieces selected from leading museums: chairs, settees, chests, highboys, sideboards by Chippendale, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Duncan Phyfe, etc. Colonial, American, Windsor, Louis XIV, 18th-century Dutch, etc. Accompanying text. 102 photographs.

Notes:

Text on versos of plates.

First published in 1931 under title: Masterpieces of furniture design.

Bibliography: 6 pages at end.

OCLC:

3938852