An edition of American Windsor furniture (1997)
American Windsor furniture
specialized forms
By Nancy Goyne Evans
Publish Date
1997
Publisher
Hudson Hills Press in association with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum,Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network
Language
eng
Pages
256
Description:
This is the companion volume to Nancy Goyne Evans's American Windsor Chairs, published in 1996. American Windsor Furniture continues the author's study of American Windsor furniture, which was part of the fabric of American life from well before the birth of the nation until the mid nineteenth century and is now among the most widely collected categories in the decorative arts field. Here are highchairs and other children's furniture; writing-arm chairs, rocking chairs (these took the country by storm in the 1820s), settees and benches, stools, and spinning wheels; such rare forms as commode chairs, seats for invalids, barber chairs, and seating for use in vehicles; even toy miniatures. The material is surveyed by form, then by geographic region and pattern chronology, from Pennsylvania through New York, New England, the South, the Midwest, and Canada. Each form is treated in cultural, economic, and technological context.
subjects: Windsor style, History, Decoration and ornament, Furniture, Chairs, Seating (Furniture)
Places: United States
Times: 19th century, 18th century