Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Yale University)

Making Furniture in Preindustrial America

The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Relying almost entirely on furnituremaking for their livelihood, they were free to pay greater attention to stylistically sensitive features than to mere function.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781421436050
• ISBN-10: 1421436051
• Artikelnr.: 57840066

Autorenporträt

Edward S. Cooke, Jr. is Charles F. Montgomery Associate Professor of American Decorative Arts at Yale University. He wrote the exhibition catalog for New American Furniture: Second Generation Studio Furnituremakers, edited and contributed to Upholstery in America and Europe from the 17th Century to World War I, and contributed to Furniture by Wendell Castle, Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Conservation by Design, The Ideal Home 1900-1920 and "The Art that is Life" The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920.