American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730 an Interpretive Catalogue

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American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730: An Interpretive Catalogue by furniture historian, Benno M. Forman. First Edition, The Winterthur Museum and W. … more American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730: An Interpretive Catalogue by furniture historian, Benno M. Forman. First Edition, The Winterthur Museum and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1988). 397 pages with illustrations. Editorial Statement by Catherine E. Hutchins, Foreword by Christopher G. Gilbert, and Preface by Robert Blair St. George & Robert F. Trent.

List of chapters: Connoisseurship and Furniture History. The Woods used in American Furniture. Seventeenth Century Woodworking Craftsmen and their Crafts. The Catalogue: Seating Furniture Made by Turners, Seating Furniture Made By Joiners; Cromwellian-Style Upholstered Chairs and Couches, Cane Chairs and Couches, Carved Topp'd, Plain Topp'd, and Crook'd-back Leather Chairs, Easy Chairs and Low Chairs and Low Chairs. less