Early New Mexican Furniture: A Handbook of Plans and Building TechniquesFor more than forty years Dr Ward Alan Minge and his wife Shirley combed the antique and used furniture stores throughout New Mexico to amass one of the most remarkable private collections of early New Mexico furniture ever assembled. Along with an extensive collection of farm and domestic tools and equipment, it was housed in Casa San Ysidro, the colonial rancho they lovingly restored in Corrales, New Mexico, and for years served scholars and students as a font of information regarding life in colonial New Mexico. In 1997 the home and collection were turned over to the Albuquerque Museum, and in the future both will be open only to small groups on a limited access basis. Here, for the first time, are photographs and dimensioned drawings of thirty-six of the collection's finest examples of early colonial carpintero craftsmanship along with drawings of fifteen authentic design details to help artisans faithfully recreate these classic pieces. This book will be a welcome addition for anyone interested in the evolution of New Mexico furniture design, and particularly for furniture makers anxious to create a timeless heirloom whose design and proportions will be true to the original. |
Contents
HISTORY OF FURNITURE IN NEW MEXICO | 9 |
TRADITIONAL DETAILS | 15 |
CHAIRS | 24 |
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adobe ALACENA Alan Minge Collection Albuquerque Museum Collection back legs basket weave bench bevel board chests bottom rails BOWTIE Burr cabinets CARVED and GEOMETRIC chambrana CHESTS Chip-Carved chip Chip-Carved Chest Chip-Carved Harinero chisel Cloud-Top Chair FW-201 Cochiti Cochiti Pueblo construction craftsmen CUPBOARD Cupid's bow cutouts decorative motifs DIAGRAMS of CARVED early New Mexican Eight-Panel Trastero Feduchi finials formerly front legs front seat rail furniture forms Geometric Grain GEOMETRIC PROFILES gouge grooves cut half-moon Isleta Pueblo lacquerware Mexican chairs Mexican furniture Mexican tables Michoacan molding mortise-and-tenon mortised nailed nineteenth century pattern pegged probably built sometime Pueblo Indian radial arm saw rails and stiles raised panels rosettes Santa Fe Trail scalloped serrated edges seventeenth century Shirley and Ward side chairs side rails sillon de frailero Six-Panel Grain Spain and Mexico Spanish and Mexican step-and-mesa design stretchers Taylor and Bokides three-bead through-mortise-and-tenon top back rail Trampas TULIP TWO-DOOR TWO-DRAWER utility knife Vedder Ward Alan Minge