Book Description
An innovative social and cultural history of the British roots of Federal style furniture in Boston.
Author : Robert D. Mussey
Publisher : Peabody Museum of Salem
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
An innovative social and cultural history of the British roots of Federal style furniture in Boston.
Author : Vernon C. Stoneman
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Furniture
ISBN :
Author : Vernon C. Stoneman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Furniture
ISBN :
Author : Vernon C. Stoneman
Publisher :
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Furniture
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Author : Robert D. Mussey
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781567926194
Isaac Vose was well known in his day among style-conscious Bostonians, his name synonymous with furniture of the highest quality and advanced design. His shop, the "first on Boston Neck," was in a prominent location and served as a familiar landmark in his South End neighborhood. Throughout the 1820s, 1830s, and as late as 1843, some nineteen years after Vose's death, auction advertisements explicitly cited his name as the maker of select furniture, with the association connoting quality and calculated to increase its sale price. This book gathers in one volume the known works of Vose as well as those attributed to him, and it is gorgeously illustrated throughout. The authors hope that Isaac Vose's work will gain recognition for its outstanding contributions to an American vision of classicism, albeit in Boston's more conservative, less "dashy" style.
Author : Elizabeth A. Davison
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2011-01-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0759119562
This book is a full-color catalogue raisonne interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing furniture makers during the post-Revolutionary period. Shearer emigrated from Scotland in the late 18th century and retained loyalist sympathies throughout his life, evidenced by the imagery and inscriptions sympathetic to various British causes_such as the suppression of the Irish rebellion in 1798 and the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805_that he worked into his furniture. Davison provides insight into the furniture's appeal to Anglo-American patrons, not secret loyalists, but men still culturally tied to Great Britain. Shearer's pieces are scattered among various collections, and many of them have been identified only in the last 25 years. This catalog is the only work in which all of Shearer's known pieces of furniture are presented in a single volume.
Author : Gerald W. R. Ward
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Furniture, Colonial
ISBN : 9781936520060
For centuries Boston has been one of the most important furniture-making centers in America. Soon after the town’s founding in 1630, Boston’s joiners and turners were the first craftsmen to make furniture in British North America, and the city’s cabinetmakers contributed to the art and craft of furniture making throughout the elegant colonial and federal periods. Its factories and designers have also been a source of fine furniture, creating major pieces in the various revival styles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Massachusetts Historical Society, The Cabinetmaker and the Carver showcases rare and exemplary pieces from private collections, illustrating three centuries of Boston history through carefully selected examples of furniture that represent the trajectory of this great tradition.
Author : Philip D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781882650170
While demonstrating the high level of artistry attained by furniture-makers of the period, this selection in many ways reflects the evolving character of domestic life in America during a seminal period in the country's history.
Author : Thomas Paquette
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Gouache painting
ISBN : 9780978567910
This image-rich book was produced to accompany the traveling exhibition of gouache paintings by nationally recognized artist Thomas Paquette. Art critic Philip Isaacson called these gouaches ?irresistible paintings.?Often described as gemlike, Paquette?s gouaches are reproduced full-size in the book, which includes a preface by the artist and an essay by art historian and curator Sally E. Mansfield.
Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367857
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.