American Furniture 2007 (American Furniture Annual)
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ISBN: 0976734419 / Publisher: Chipstone Foundation, December 2007
An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts.
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This volume includes articles that explore the relationship between japanned decoration and seafaring narratives; assess the careers and work of Philadelphia cabinetmakers Benjamin Randolph and George G. Wright; contextualize marks, labels, and signatures used by American furniture makers during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; illustrate all of the known American turned chairs with board seats along with British and Continental antecedents; and provide source material for understanding period repairs and alterations.
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