| Description |
160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm |
| Note |
"An Art & antiques book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-155) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / by Mary Jean Madigan -- Early New England joinery / by Robert F. Trent -- Pre-Revolutionary New York pieces / by Joseph T. Butler -- The upholsterer's art / by Wendy Cooper -- Chippendale : a primer / by Richard Dana Reese -- Country Chippendale / by Marvin D. Schwartz -- Connecticut blockfront design / by Minor Myers, Jr. -- The kast and the schrank / by Joseph T. Butler -- Georgia Piedmont furniture / by Henry D. Green -- Virginia's raised-panel forms / by Marilyn S. Melchor -- Bermuda furniture / by Betsy Kent -- The fiddleback chair / by Kathleen Eagen Johnson -- The rocking chair / by Ruth Miller Fitzgibbons -- Painted furniture / by Ruth Miller Fitzgibbons -- The Neoclassic influence / Victoria Brackenwhistle -- Baltimore fancy furniture / Ronald Pilling -- Phyfe and Lannuier : New York cabinetmakers / by Richard Dana Reese -- Shaker chairs / by Barbara Coeyman Hults -- Fireplace furniture / by Henry Kauffman. |
| Subject |
Furniture, Early American.
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Furniture, Early American. (OCoLC)fst00936603
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| Added Author |
Madigan, Mary Jean Smith.
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Colgan, Susan, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Early American furniture, from settlement to city. New York, N.Y. : Billboard Publications, 1983 (OCoLC)891417466 |
| ISBN |
0823080072 |
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9780823080076 |
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