Early American Furniture by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Preface

The intent of this book is to chronicle the period wherein American furniture was made to be both functional and beautiful.

The time covered is roughly from 1620 Jamestown to 1830 or 1840, depending on how much degradation one can tolerate before saying “enough,” when condescensions were increasingly made to accommodate machine made items, which became rampant.

Early American furniture actually covered seven distinct periods as follows: 1) Pilgrim - 1620-1700 with some British imports 2) William and Mary or A/K/A Jacobean – 1700-1725

3) Queen Anne – 1725-1760

4) Chippendale – 1755-1790

5) Heppelwhite – 1780-1810

6) Sheraton – 1790-1820

7) Empire or A/K/A Degraded Empire – 1815-1840

This book will be short on words, rather depending on visuals to demonstrate the evolutions of style in prevalent furniture types.

More visuals can be seen in Wallace Nutting’s wonderful “Furniture Treasury.”

 

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Chairs

 

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Room Settings

 

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Houses

 

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Early New Mexico

 

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