American Furniture: Understanding Styles, Construction and Quality"Kirk shows the reader each style, from the innate beauty of a seventeenth-century Hadley chest to the Classicism of the Shakers. William and Mary, Queen Anne, Rococo and Chippendale, Philadelphia and Newport, and all the variations of the Federal Style are explained in vivid detail. Comparative sections explore regional differences. |
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Contents | 7 |
How It Affects Design and Signals | 17 |
Buy It Ratty and Leave It Alone Revisited | 27 |
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