American furniture : 1650 to the present /

Fitzgerald, Oscar P.,

American furniture : 1650 to the present / Oscar P. Fitzgerald. - xvi, 621 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-603) and index.

The Jacobean period : joiners and cabinetmakers in the new world -- William and Mary : the years of transition -- Queen Anne : the line of beauty -- The Chippendale style -- Furniture of the federal period -- American empire -- Windsor chairs -- Country furniture : New England -- Southern furniture -- Furniture of rural Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Midwest -- Furniture of the Shakers : the gift to be simple -- Victorian furniture : the gothic and rococo revivals -- Victorian furniture : the Renaissance revival -- Eastlake, the aesthetic movement, and the colonial revival -- American mission furniture and the arts and crafts movement : 1900-1915 -- Traditional revivals for a conservative public -- Modern furniture, 1920-1941 : is it here to stay? -- America takes the lead : mid-century modern, 1950s and 1960s -- Post-modern and avant-garde furniture since 1975 -- Studio furniture and furniture as art -- Connoisseurship of American furniture.

9781442270381 (cloth : alk. paper)

2017017458


Furniture--History.--United States

NK2405 / .F58 2018

684.100973