American Furniture (eBook)

1650 to the Present

Oscar P. Fitzgerald (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
630 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-7040-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This authoritative text explains the evolution of four centuries of American furniture from 1650 to the 21st century. It is the complete story covering the cultural and historical context of pieces and advice on how to authenticate furniture and preserve it for posterity. It is fully illustrated with over 800 photos and a 24 page color signature.

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Drawing on the latest scholarship, this comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey tells the story of the evolution of American furniture from the 17th century to the present. Not viewed in isolation, furniture is placed in its broader cultural, historic, and aesthetic context. The focus is not only on the urban masterpieces of 18th century William and Mary, Queen Anne, Chippendale, and Federal styles but also on the work of numerous rural cabinetmakers. Special chapters explore Windsor chairs, Shaker, and Pennsylvania German furniture which do not follow the mainstream style progression. Picturesque and anti-classical explain Victorian furniture including Rococo, Renaissance, and Eastlake. Mission and Arts and Crafts furniture introduce the 20th century. Another chapter identifies the eclectic revivals such as Early American that dominated the mass market throughout much of the 20th century. After World War II American designers created many of the Mid-Century Modern icons that are much sought after by collectors today. The rise of studio furniture and furniture as art which include some of the most creative and imaginative furniture produced in the 20th and 21st centuries caps the review of four centuries of American furniture. A final chapter advises on how to evaluate the authenticity of both traditional and modern furniture and how to preserve it for posterity.With over 800 photos including 24 pages of color, this fully illustrated text is the authoritative reference work.

Autor

Oscar P. Fitzgerald is a nationally known historian, author, lecturer, and consultant on American furniture from colonial times to the present. He retired as the director of the Navy Museum in Washington, DC and curator of Tingey House, to pursue full time his first love which is the history of furniture from antique to modern. As a member of the faculty of the Smithsonian Institution/George Washington University Master's program in Decorative Arts & Design History he teaches all the furniture classes. As a decorative arts consultant, he advises on the furniture collections of a number of historic houses including the Frederick Douglass House, the Clara Barton National Historic Site, and the Custis-Lee Mansion. His publication range from a study of The Green Family of Cabinetmakers: An Alexandria Institution (of the Mercy Street TV series fame) to the catalog of the studio furniture at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Inhalt

1.The Jacobean Period: Joiners and Cabinetmakers in the New World2.William and Mary: The Years of Transition 3.Queen Anne: The Line of Beauty4.The Chippendale Style5.Furniture of the Federal Period6.American Empire7.Windsor Chairs8.Country Furniture: New England9.Southern Furniture10.Furniture of Rural Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Mid-West11.Shaker Furniture: The Gift to Be SimpleColor Plate Signature12. Victorian Furniture: Gothic and Rococo Revivals13. Victorian Furniture: The Renaissance Revival14. Eastlake, the Aesthetic Movement, and the Colonial Revival15. American Mission Furniture and the Arts & Crafts Movement: 1900-191516. Traditional Revivals for a Conservative Public17.Modern Furniture, 1920-1941: Is It Here to Stay?18.America Takes the Lead: Mid-Century Modern, 1950s and 1960s19.Post-Modern and Avant-Garde Furniture since 197520.Studio Furniture and Furniture as Art 21.Connoisseurship of American Furniture

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: authenticate furniture • chairs • Chippendale • Collectibles • Federal • furniture collector • History • how to • identify furniture • indentify furniture • Mid-century modern • period furniture • queen anne • Reference • Renaissance • Reniassance • Sofa • Sofas • Victorian • William and Mary
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-7040-3 / 1442270403
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7040-4 / 9781442270404