Nineteenth Century Furniture: Innovation, Revival and Reform
Hardcover
1982 · New York
by Madigan, Mary Jean
New York: Art & Antiques, 1982. Hardcover. G- (DJ has substantial aging, soiling and edge wear; book itself has slight foxing along book block edges; pages and illus. are clean.). Three-quarters gold paper boards with burgundy cloth spine, gilt letters on spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 160 pp., 150 BW illus., 100 color plates. "The first book devoted exclusively to the exhilarating variety of furniture styles -- American empire, Gothic and rococo revival to Renaissance revival, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau -- made between 1820 and the First World War. Written by the eminent authorities in the field, the book focuses comprehensively on the changing stylistic patterns of this period, and sheds light on its foremost designers and cabinetmakers -- John Henry Belter, Lambert Hitchcock, Daniel Pabst, Kimel and Cabus, Gustav Stickley, and Michael Thonet, among others." (dj) A collection of 20 illustrated essays. (Inventory #: 146864)