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Book American Furniture at Chipstone

Download or read book American Furniture at Chipstone written by Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish presentation of this fine Milwaukee collection. Two hundred pieces of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth-century American furniture. Each entry includes all known information about the particular object's history, cost, design sources, regional origin and unique qualities, as well as a photograph of the piece and a description of its salient construction features. Complimenting this rich catalogue are two essays. The first summarizes stylistic developments in the period 1680-1820 and seeks to place the Stone collection in historical perspective. The second, by Stanley Stone himself, discusses a personal approach to collecting that mixes obvious aesthetic joy and keen judgment--two qualities everywhere evident in this remarkable collection.

Book American Fancy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sumpter T. Priddy
  • Publisher : Chipstone Foundation/Milwaukee Art Museum
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780972435390
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book American Fancy written by Sumpter T. Priddy and published by Chipstone Foundation/Milwaukee Art Museum. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1790 and 1840, millions of middle-class Americans throughout the nation encountered "Fancy": they rode in a Fancy sleigh, dressed up in Fancy clothes, blew their noses in Fancy handkerchiefs, bought goods at Fancy shops, ate at Fancy tables on Fancy dishes, and slept under Fancy coverlets. Not just fancy but Fancy: an early nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon born out of new and enlightened ways of seeing, understanding, and responding to the surrounding world. Fancy expressed itself in just about everything that pleased the senses; generally colorful and boldly patterned, it elicited delight, awe, surprise, whim, and caprice. Whether experienced in the form of painted surfaces, kaleidoscopic quilts, or imaginary landscapes, Fancy engaged the emotions and expanded the imagination, expressing the core of human fancy. "American Fancy" offers an appropriately fantastic experience of this uniquely American sensibility. Author Sumpter Priddy has assembled and produced an original oeuvre in the field of decorative arts, going beyond the traditional modes of furniture analysis, which concentrate on style, history, and construction, to consider the perceptual and emotional responses through which the original users and viewers would have interacted with these material things. To this end he employs the interpretive methods used in the fields of literature, fine arts, philosophy and even psychology. Rich, fully illustrated, wondrously researched, and bound in a cover that imitates a typical Fancy pattern, "American Fancy" does its marvelous subject true.

Book AMERICAN FURNITURE AT CHIPSTONE

Download or read book AMERICAN FURNITURE AT CHIPSTONE written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour

Download or read book The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour written by Robert D. Mussey and published by Peabody Museum of Salem. This book was released on 2003 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative social and cultural history of the British roots of Federal style furniture in Boston.

Book American Furniture 1999

Download or read book American Furniture 1999 written by Luke Beckerdite and published by American Furniture Annual. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. The 1999 volume presents articles devoted to Rhode Island furniture, plus the usual book reviews, bibliography of recent works, and index.

Book If These Pots Could Talk

Download or read book If These Pots Could Talk written by Ivor Noël Hume and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively prose and wonderful color photographs portray a veteran's passion for British household pottery.

Book American Furniture 2002

Download or read book American Furniture 2002 written by Luke Beckerdite and published by American Furniture Annual. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features articles on the Lloyd family's furniture legacy, furniture fakes from the Chipstone collection, Pennsylvania clouded limestone, joiner's trade in seventeenth-century America, the Claypoole family joiners of Phiadelphia, the politics of the caned chair, tradition and exclusion in American furniture scholarship, and seventeenth-century cupbo

Book The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs

Download or read book The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs written by Joseph Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) ranked among the most innovative furniture makers at the turn of the twentieth century. Praised by the international press and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, his beautiful works grew out of an interesting mix of styles that included Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and proto-modernism. This book presents the first major study of this important American designer and craftsman, drawing upon new photographs and fresh sources of information. Alongside traditional historical approaches, the book presents detailed formal, structural, and stylistic analyses of Rohlfs's well-known masterpieces from major museums, together with lesser-known objects in public and private collections. Topics include discovering the contribution of Rohlfs's wife--mystery novelist Anna Katharine Green--to his designs; the far-ranging sources of his idiosyncratic motifs; his influence on Gustav Stickley's designs; his commissioned interiors; his efforts at self-promotion and marketing; and his attempts to define a conceptual framework for his artistic endeavor. Handsomely designed and illustrated, the book also features a complete set of unpublished period illustrations of over seventy works.

Book American Furniture 2013

Download or read book American Furniture 2013 written by Luke Beckerdite and published by American Furniture Annual. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts

Book American Furniture 2019

Download or read book American Furniture 2019 written by Adam Earby and published by American Furniture Annual. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chipstone Foundation's annual American Furniture and its sister publication Ceramics in America are the most influential publications to have emerged in the decorative arts field during the last twenty-five years. These journals continue to set new standards for cutting edge research, photography, and graphic design while forging links between academia, museums, craftspeople, and the collecting world. Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present.

Book American Furniture 2015

Download or read book American Furniture 2015 written by Luke Beckerdite and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts

Book American Furniture 2001

Download or read book American Furniture 2001 written by Luke Beckerdite and published by American Furniture Annual. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Furniture is an annual publication that presents new research on furniture design, use, production and appreciation. It provides a forum on furniture history, connoisseurship, technology & conversation by the foremost scholars in the field.

Book American Furniture

Download or read book American Furniture written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Furniture 2016

Download or read book American Furniture 2016 written by Luke Beckerdite and published by American Furniture Annual. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts

Book Art   Industry in Early America

Download or read book Art Industry in Early America written by Patricia E. Kane and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new information on the export trade, patronage, artistic collaboration, and the small-scale shop traditions that defined early Rhode Island craftsmanship. This stunning volume features more than 200 illustrations of beautifully constructed and carved objects—including chairs, high chests, bureau tables, and clocks—that demonstrate the superb workmanship and artistic skill of the state’s furniture makers.

Book Paul T  Frankl and Modern American Design

Download or read book Paul T Frankl and Modern American Design written by Christopher Long and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive view of the life, work, and ideas of one of the creative giants of modern American design Arriving in the United States in 1914, Viennese-born Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958) brought with him an outsider's fresh perspective and an enthusiasm for forging a uniquely American design aesthetic. In the years between the two world wars he, more than any other designer, helped shape the distinctive look of American modernism. This authoritative book draws on an extensive collection of unpublished documents and family papers and photographs to provide the first full account of Frankl's life and ideas. The book also explores the history of modern American design and the extent of Frankl's influence on its trajectory. In the early 1920s, Frankl opened a New York City shop that became an epicenter of American modernism. Over the next decades, his work encompassed everything from individual pieces of furniture and decorative accessories to entire interiors, and his style continuously evolved, from early "Skyscraper" furniture to relaxed and casual designs favored by the Hollywood elite in the 1930s to manufactured pieces for the mass market in the 1950s. The book charts the impact of Frankl's ideas on merchants and consumers, on his fellow designers, and on the changing look of American homes and workplaces. With close to 170 illustrations, Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design is an essential reference on 20th-century design.

Book American Furniture 2020

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luke Beckerdite
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-12-10
  • ISBN : 9780986385773
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book American Furniture 2020 written by Luke Beckerdite and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of American Furniture covers a diverse range of subjects, including Philadelphia woodworking, Newport cabinetmaker Christopher Townsend, mistakes in wood identification, and the woodworking buisness community.