Author : Jonathan L. Fairbanks
Release : 1981
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
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American Furniture, 1620 to the Present - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Furniture, 1620 to the Present write by Jonathan L. Fairbanks. This book was released on 1981. American Furniture, 1620 to the Present available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meant for both connoisseur and amateur, this is the definitive book in its field. During ten years of research, the authors examined furniture from coast to coast, in museums and private collections. American Furniture has a running text along with its identification captions, which places furniture in its social and historical context. In its 100 color pictures and 1300 black-and-white photos, the book frequently presents furniture in the rooms they were made for. There is extensive coverage of the masterpieces from the seventeenth century to the present, many of them newly photographed for this book, but coverage is by no means restricted to these pieces. This is the first book to encompass furniture "away from the mainstream"--Pieces made away from the furniture centers of New York, New England, and Pennsylvania. Thus, there is discussion of the furniture of the Southwest; furniture made in Dutch, Spanish, French, and Norwegian settlements; and furniture made in religious enclaves or as part of social or aesthetic reform movements. Also, line drawings reveal how antique furniture was made--and therefore how to tell a genuine antique from a forgery.--From publisher description.