Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Furniture study: Moving into the mainstream / Kenneth L. Ames -- 1. Continuity and change in furniture style: The ironies of style: complexities and contradictions in American decorative arts, 1850-1900 / Harvey Green -- They don't make it anymore / Wilson H. Faude -- Fine points of furniture, American Empire: Late, Later, Latest / Donald L. Fennimore -- 2. Business, Commerce and labor: Arms across the border: trade in chairs and chair parts between the United Sttaes and Upper Canada / W. John McIntyre -- A tradition in transition: The Boston furniture industry, 1840-1880 / Jan M. Seidler -- Shop and factory: Philadelphia furniture makers and manufacturers, 1850-1880 / Page Talbott -- 3. Studies of specific firms and forms: Boston nineteenth century pianoforte manufacture: the contribitions of Jonas Chickering / Nancy A. Smith -- Prosperity through patents: the furniture of George Hunzinger & Son / Richard W. Flint -- Seating for anyplace: the folding chair / Rodris Roth -- The spinning wheel as artifact, symbol, and source of design / Christopher Monkhouse -- 4. High culture architects and designers: To beautify the useful: Ben Pitman and the Women's woodcarving movement in Cincinnati in the late nineteenth century / Kenneth R. Trapp -- The decoration of houses and scientific eclecticism / Richard Guy Wilson -- Frank Lloyd Wright's "The art and craft of the machine" / David A. Hanks -- The furniture and furnishings of Wilson Eyre (1858-1944) / Edward Teitelman and Betsy Fahlman -- 5. On the geographic and social periphery: Respectability at $50.00 down, 20 months to pay! Furnishing a working class Victorian home / Lizabeth Cohen -- High style in Montana: The Kohrs Parlor / Rodd L. Wheaton.
Subject Terms:
Furniture, Victorian -- United States. | Furniture -- United States -- History -- 19th century. | Furniture. | Furniture, Victorian. | United States.