American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730: An Interpretive Catalogue - Hardcover

Forman, Benno M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393025160 ISBN 13: 9780393025163

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1987

Synopsis

Copyright 1988 by The Winterthur Museum. First Edition. Editorial Statement: Catherine E. Hutchins. 397 pages includes: Foreword by Christopher G. Gilbert. Preface by Robert Blair St. George & Robert F. Trent. Includes: Connoisseurship and Furniture History. The Woods used in Amrican Furniture. Seventeenth Century Woodworking Craftsmen and their Crafts.. The Catalogue: Seating Furniture Made by Turners; Seating Furniture Made By Joiners; Cromwellian-Style Upholstered Chairs and Couches; Cane Chairs and Couches; Carved Topp'd, Plain Topp'd , and Crook'd-back Leather Chairs; Easy Chairs and Low Chairs... (E1)

About this title

From Library Journal:

Forman was a meticulous scholar whose monumental work on 17th-century American chairs has now been finished by former students Robert Blair St. George and Robert F. Trent. Although based on the collection at the Winterthur Museum, where Forman was a research associate, this book ranges widely to explore the social and economic milieu of the American colonies and their European antecedents that produced these chairs and other furniture. Native woods, tools, and the fine distinctions between carpenters, joiners, and turners are all scrutinized. Excellently illustrated, this book surpasses all previous works on the topic and thus belongs in all collections on American decorative arts. Constance Ashmore Fairchild, Univ. of Illinois Lib., Urbana-Champaign
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About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0393025160
• ISBN 13: 9780393025163
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424