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Author : Gerald W. R. Ward
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 039302654X
Discusses regional styles, American furniture makers, upholstery, parlors, painted furniture, patent rocking chairs, and Victorian death furniture
Author : Edward S. Cooke Jr.
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421436067
Cooke offers a fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England communities. Winner of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc.'s Charles F. Montgomery Prize Originally published in 1996. In Making Furniture in Preindustrial America Edward S. Cooke Jr. offers a fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England communities. Drawing on both documentary and artifactual sources, Cooke explores the interplay among producer, process, and style in demonstrating why and how the social economies of these two seemingly similar towns differed significantly during the late colonial and early national periods. Throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century, Cooke explains, the yeoman town of Newtown relied on native joiners whose work satisfied the expectations of their fellow townspeople. These traditionalists combined craftwork with farming and made relatively plain, conservative furniture. By contrast, the typical joiner in the neighboring gentry town of Woodbury was the immigrant innovator. Born and raised elsewhere in Connecticut and serving a diverse clientele, these craftsmen were free of the cultural constraints that affected their Newtown contemporaries. Relying almost entirely on furnituremaking for their livelihood, they were free to pay greater attention to stylistically sensitive features than to mere function.
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0809495422
Provides instruction on building fine American furniture, including Windsor chairs, a Queen Anne secretary, a Pembroke table, and a four-poster bed.
Author : Luke Beckerdite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cabinetwork
ISBN : WISC:89096834700
Author : Clive Edwards
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0719045258
The eighteenth century has been seen as a Golden Age of design and craftsmanship. This book goes well beyond these ideas and investigates the various developments in the infrastructure of the eighteenth-century furniture world.
Author : Lonn Taylor,David B. Warren
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780292739420
"More examples of Texas' rich heritage of locally made nineteenth-century furniture and information on the craftsmen who produced it"--
Author : Layton Art Collection,Brock Jobe,Milwaukee Art Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015028416744
Beautiful and scholarly study. A must for collectors!
Author : Richard Rabinowitz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469629513
How do history museums and historic sites tell the richly diverse stories of the American people? What fascinates us most about American history? To help answer these questions, noted public historian Richard Rabinowitz examines the evolution of public history over the last half-century and highlights the new ways we have come to engage with our past. At the heart of this endeavor is what Rabinowitz calls "storyscapes--landscapes of engagement where individuals actively encounter stories of past lives. As storyscapes, museums become processes of narrative interplay rather than moribund storage bins of strange relics. Storyscapes bring to life even the most obscure people--making their skills of hands and minds "touchable," making their voices heard despite their absence from traditional archives, and making the dilemmas and triumphs of their lives accessible to us today. Rabinowitz's wealth of professional experience--creating over 500 history museums, exhibitions, and educational programs across the nation--shapes and informs the narrative. By weaving insights from learning theory, anthropology and geography, politics and finance, collections and preservation policy, and interpretive media, Rabinowitz reveals how the nation's best museums and historic sites allow visitors to confront their sense of time and place, memories of family and community, and definitions of self and the world while expanding their idea of where they stand in the flow of history.
Author : David Jaffee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812222005
A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.
Author : Joanna Banham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1469 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136787584
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Marla R. Miller
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429952378
A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia Betsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures of the Revolutionary War. Drawing on new sources and bringing a fresh, keen eye to the fabled creation of "the first flag," Marla R. Miller thoroughly reconstructs the life behind the legend. This authoritative work provides a close look at the famous seamstress while shedding new light on the lives of the artisan families who peopled the young nation and crafted its tools, ships, and homes. Betsy Ross occupies a sacred place in the American consciousness, and Miller's winning narrative finally does her justice. This history of the ordinary craftspeople of the Revolutionary War and their most famous representative will be the definitive volume for years to come.
Author : Rosemary Troy Krill
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780759119468
Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materials developed at the museum, the revised and enhanced Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters is an indispensable guide for anyone involved with interpretation of decorative arts collections. Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860 elucidates the principles of public interpretation, explains how to analyze objects, and defines the concept of style. Eighteen chapters provide comprehensive descriptions of decorative arts including furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings and prints, metalwork, glass, and other objects. Many museums and historic sites display such collections to thousands of visitors annually. Guides, interpreters, educators, and collection managers will find this book a helpful summary and a guide to further research. This enhanced edition includes now includes a CD featuring beautiful color images of the more than 170 black-and-white photographs in the book, bringing the Winterthur collections to life on your computer and in your classroom. Published in cooperation with Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Author : Megan E Springate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781315432168
Using data from archaeological excavations, patent filings, and marketing catalogs, this book provides a broad view of the introduction, spread, and use of mass-produced coffin hardware in North America. At the book's heart is a standardized typology of coffin hardware that recognizes stylistic and functional changes and a fresh look at the meanings and uses of the various motifs and decorative elements. Within the discussion of mass-produced coffin hardware in North America is new work connecting the North American industry with its British antecedents and a fresh analysis of the prime factors that led to the introduction and spread of mass-produced coffin hardware. Extensively illustrated with examples of coffin hardware to aid scholars and professionals in identification.
Author : J. Ritchie Garrison
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1572334851
Journeyman -- Performances -- Urban building -- Master builder -- Change -- Double parlor -- Cottage and mansion -- Contractor -- Monuments.
Author : Jane Leigh Cook
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0773520562
Coalescence of Styles provides an important comparative analysis of material heritage, showing how regional furniture embodied the lifestyles of diverse groups of settlers."--BOOK JACKET.
