American furniture 2014 / edited by Luke Beckerdite.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beckerdite, Luke, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Furniture--United States--History.

Furniture.

Physical Description:

vii, 298 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee : Chipstone Foundation, 2015.

Contents:

Ark of the Covenant : the Remarkable Inlaid Cedar Scrutoir from the Brinckerhoff Family of Newtown, Long Island / Peter Kenny

Flux in Design and Method in Early Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia Furniture / Alan Miller

Pattern Carving in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia / Luke Beckerdite

Adam Hains and the Philadelphia-Reading Connection / Lisa Minardi

A Steady Growth of Independence: Joshua Shipman and the Economy of Frontier Craftsmanship / Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Documentary Evidence of Colored Finishes and Decoration on Bedsteads and Cornices : Late Colonial and Federal Periods / Nancy Goyne Evans

Book Reviews. We Sit Together: Utopian Benches from the Shakers to the Separatists of Zoar / review by Nicole Belola

To Make as Perfectly as Possible: Roubo on Marquetry / review by Silas Kopf

Thistles & Crowns: The Painted Chests of the Connecticut Shore / review by Martha Willoughby

A Surviving Legacy in Spanish America: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Furniture from the Viceroyalty of Peru / review by Dennis Carr

Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism / review by Caroline Cole.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780982772256

0982772254

OCLC:

897444965