Main entry:

Fitzgerald, Oscar P.

Title & Author:

Three centuries of American furniture / Oscar P. Fitzgerald.

Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1982.

Description:

xii, 323 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"A Spectrum book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-315) 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 -- The country cabinetmaker -- Southern furniture -- Furniture of the folk: Shaker and Pennsylvania German -- Victorian furniture: the Gothic and Rococo revivals -- Victorian furniture: the Renaissance revivals -- The Eastlake and other revivals -- The connoisseurship of American furniture.
Also issued online.

Summary:

The history of American furniture is approached from both a cultural and aesthetic point of view. Furniture styles did not evolve in isolation but were determined by cultural and historical events, particularly political, economic, and intellectual ones. These influences are emphasized in the text, and more than 500 photographs and captions analyze the artistic merit of the furniture. -- pg. vii.

ISBN:

0139203710
9780139203718
013920363X (pbk.)
9780139203633 (pbk.)

Subject:

Furniture United States History.
Meubles États-Unis Histoire.
Furniture.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74286
Call No.: 9512; ID:86-B12745
Status: Available