Boston furniture, 1700-1900 /

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Imprint:Boston : Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2016.
[Charlottesville, VA] : University of Virginia Press
©2016
Description:397 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 29 cm.
Language:English
Series:Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; volume LXXXVI
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 88.
Subject:Furniture -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Furniture, Colonial -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Cabinetmakers -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Cabinetmakers.
Furniture.
Furniture, Colonial.
Massachusetts -- Boston.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11015145
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Varying Form of Title:Boston furniture, seventeen hundred to nineteen hundred
Other authors / contributors:Jobe, Brock, editor.
Ward, Gerald W. R., editor.
McCarthy, Lynn, contributor.
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, issuing body.
ISBN:9780985254384
0985254386
Notes:Misprinted as volume LXXXVI; per publisher, series numbering should read: volume 88. Erratum attached.
Essays based on presentations made at the Winterthur Furniture Forum, "New Perspectives on Boston Furniture, 1630-1860," held March 6-8, 2013, part of the "Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture" project.
Series numbering should read: volume 88. Erratum attached.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:

New Perspectives on Boston Furniture gathers together nineteen essays first delivered at the Winterthur Museum's 2013 Furniture Forum. It amply illustrates how research concerning one of America's most productive centers of furniture-making has diversified in the forty years since the Colonial Society of Massachusetts published Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century (also distributed by Virginia), the proceedings of a similar conference held in 1973. The essays place less emphasis on connoisseurship and instead devote greater attention to techniques of construction and the social uses to which these objects were put. The roster of contributors includes not only some of the best-known names in the field (Edwin S. Cooke Jr., Wendy A. Cooper, J. Ritchie Garrison, Morrison Heckscher, Robert Mussey, and Richard Nylander) but also a number of skilled furniture makers and emerging scholars. Some of the subjects addressed include the construction of turret-top tea and card tables, japaning techniques, how pigeonholes functioned as a record-keeping device for merchants, and the making of Windsor and "elastic" chairs. A particular strength of the volume is that it carries the examination of Boston furniture forward into the understudied nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with essays on piano making, the Grecian furniture of Isaac Vose, the frames and mirrors of John Doggett, and the furniture making of the east Cambridge firm of Ellis & Davenport, who did so much to satisfy demand for Colonial Revival furniture in the half century following the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876.

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Item Description:Misprinted as volume LXXXVI; per publisher, series numbering should read: volume 88. Erratum attached.
Essays based on presentations made at the Winterthur Furniture Forum, "New Perspectives on Boston Furniture, 1630-1860," held March 6-8, 2013, part of the "Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture" project.
Series numbering should read: volume 88. Erratum attached.
Physical Description:397 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 29 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780985254384
0985254386