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The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies
John (Profes Kassay
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Description for The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies
Hardcover. This work documents the different features and styles of American Windsor furniture, with narrative descriptions and photographs of the 198 pieces under discussion. It also provides 34 drawings (and lists of measured parts) which can be used as blue-prints for creating Windsor reproductions. Num Pages: 203 pages, 211 illustrations, 34 drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFT; WCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 305 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1347.
Combining comfort, simplicity and craftsmanship, Windsor chairs have long been prized by collectors. Introduced from England in the early 1700s, the Windsor style took hold in America first as seating for the well-to-do and later as the favourite chair of the general population. Included in the Windsor family are stools, tables, settees, high chairs, cradles and candle stands, but the greatest variety is found in the chairs, which range from comb-back to bow-back to step-down versions. Their makers took advantage of the natural properties of different woods for particular components of the chairs, employing hickory, red oak, or ash for ... Read more
Combining comfort, simplicity and craftsmanship, Windsor chairs have long been prized by collectors. Introduced from England in the early 1700s, the Windsor style took hold in America first as seating for the well-to-do and later as the favourite chair of the general population. Included in the Windsor family are stools, tables, settees, high chairs, cradles and candle stands, but the greatest variety is found in the chairs, which range from comb-back to bow-back to step-down versions. Their makers took advantage of the natural properties of different woods for particular components of the chairs, employing hickory, red oak, or ash for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
195
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558491373
SKU
V9781558491373
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