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This early out-of-print book provides an in-depth survey of antique American furniture including an in-depth study of Victorian Mitchell Rammelsberg furniture.
AMERICAN FURNITURE AND ITS MAKERS: WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO 13 edited by Ian M.G. Quimby, Chicago UP, IL, 1979.
This series is published for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, and presents a series of scholarly articles on American antique furniture. 'While the focus is on furniture made in America from 1660 to 1860, two articles are concerned with twentieth century attitudes toward furniture of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Collectively these essays reveal the wide variety of approaches taken by scholars in recent years to the study of antique furniture…; the new methodology stresses extensive documentary research and close scrutiny of the furniture….' This book is the only known text which covers the Victorian furniture maker Mitchell and Rammelsberg.
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Illustrated in black-and-white, this early text covers by chapter: Style and Structure in the Joinery of Dedham and Medfield, Massachusetts 1635-1685; Wallace Nutting – Collector and Entrepreneur; Furniture in Philadelphia – The First Fifty Years; Cabinetmaking in Philadelphia – 1820 to 1840 – Transition from Craft to Industry; Furnishing an Eighteenth-Century Tavern for twentieth-Century Use; Wares and Chairs – A Reappraisal of the Documents; A Cabinetmakers Price Book; A Methodological Study in the Identification of Some Important Philadelphia Chippendale Furniture; Mitchell and Rammelsberg, Cincinnati Furniture Manufacturers 1847-1881; Note on Contributions; and Index.
The opening essay by Robert Blair St. George examines a group of seventeenth-century chests made in Dedham and Medfield, Massachusetts, where most town residents migrated from a small region in Suffolk, England. Employing the analogy of linguistics, St. George argues that the migrants imported a visual vocabulary, evident in a similarity of design motifs. In a similarly structured analysis, Philip D. Zimmerman demonstrates the advantages of combining history and measurable data in a study of two groups of Chippendale-style chairs." Attention is given to merchandising and commercial history, to the process of furniture making during westward expansion, and to the life of Wallace Nutting. Illustrated in black and white, this is a richly detailed text which will inform and inspire anyone who loves antique American furniture.
8.25 in. x 11.25 in. hardback with dust cover in very good condition. 244 pages.
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