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Neat Pieces: The Plain-Style Furniture of Nineteenth-Century Georgia
Atlanta History Center
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Description for Neat Pieces: The Plain-Style Furniture of Nineteenth-Century Georgia
Paperback. Presents an illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the "plain style" of furniture made in the 1800s. This book features 126 pieces of furniture (including chairs, tables, slabs, huntboards, washstands, and candlestands). It provides information on furniture forms, nomenclature, and finishes. The photographs are in full color. Num Pages: 256 pages, 172 colour & 17 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JH; AFT; WCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1089.
Neat Pieces is a detailed, extensively illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the ""plain style"" of furniture made in the 1800s. Simply designed, solidly constructed of local woods, and usually unadorned, such pieces were used daily by their owners for storage, sleeping, eating, and more. Today, this furniture is read for clues into a past way of life by historians, folklorists, and other experts. It is also prized by museums, antiques dealers and auction houses, and furniture appraisers, collectors, and makers. ""Neat Pieces"" first appeared as the companion volume to the Atlanta History Center's seminal 1983 exhibit ... Read more
Neat Pieces is a detailed, extensively illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the ""plain style"" of furniture made in the 1800s. Simply designed, solidly constructed of local woods, and usually unadorned, such pieces were used daily by their owners for storage, sleeping, eating, and more. Today, this furniture is read for clues into a past way of life by historians, folklorists, and other experts. It is also prized by museums, antiques dealers and auction houses, and furniture appraisers, collectors, and makers. ""Neat Pieces"" first appeared as the companion volume to the Atlanta History Center's seminal 1983 exhibit ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820328058
SKU
V9780820328058
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-66
About Atlanta History Center
Deanne Levison is an appraiser and dealer specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American antiques and co-owner of the Levison and Cullen Gallery in Atlanta. Levison helped organize the Atlanta History Center's ""Neat Pieces"" exhibit in 1983 and worked with Israel Sack beginning in the 1990s.
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