Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc./The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1994. Hardcover. VG. Black cloth, gilt design, 272 pp. 133 color, 167 bw plates. Prepared as a catalogue for a travelling exhibition of 42 Herter Brothers works. Provides a history of Herter Brothers, America's leading cabinetmakers during the Golden Era of the last half of the nineteenth century. With four thematic and illustrated essays. Fully illustrated with 300 b&w and color photographs, reproductions of illustrations from catalogues, patent submissions, magazines etc. Appendices, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. (Inventory #: 18572)