Antique Biedermeier Furniture with Price Guide - 2002 Edition A comprehensive look at striking furniture of the nineteenth century Biedermeier era in Austria and Germany. This handsome book features more than 600 authentic Biedermeier pieces, including cabinets, bureaus, wardrobes, secretaries, sofas, chairs, and tables. The authoritative authors provide extensive information on shapes, materials, ornamental features, and regional aspects of this popular furniture. The text covers evaluation and pricing, market trends, and tips on buying, caring for, and proper restoration of Biedermeier pieces. An illustrated glossary and current values are also included in this elegant reference.
 

American Windsor Furniture Specialized Forms by Nancy Evans First Edition - 1997. This is the companion volume to Nancy Goyne Evans's American Windsor Chairs, published in 1996. American Windsor Furniture continues the author's study of American Windsor furniture, which was part of the fabric of American life from well before the birth of the nation until the mid nineteenth century and is now among the most widely collected categories in the decorative arts field. Here are highchairs and other children's furniture; writing-arm chairs, rocking chairs (these took the country by storm in the 1820s), settees and benches, stools, and spinning wheels; such rare forms as commode chairs, seats for invalids, barber chairs, and seating for use in vehicles; even toy miniatures. The material is surveyed by form, then by geographic region and pattern chronology, from Pennsylvania through New York, New England, the South, the Midwest, and Canada. Each form is treated in cultural, economic, and technological context.
 

SOUTHERN FURNITURE 1680-1830 - The Colonial Williamsburg Collection Williamsburg furniture curators Hurst and Prown have compiled a veritable catalogue raisonne of Southern decorative arts relating to furniture. This glorious work focuses not only on the fine artistry and diversity of the functional items but also the historical background of the Chesapeake, Low Country, and Backcountry regions of Virginia and North and South Carolina through brief articles on each of the regions. The second portion contains the catalog of works focusing on seating furniture, tables, case furniture (chests, tall clocks, cabinets), and other forms (cradles, beds, screens). Beautiful illustrations highlight each of the 183 objects from simple, roughhewn elegance to detailed, ornate craftsmanship. Descriptions of each object include a brief historical sketch, construction, condition, material, dimensions, marks, a provenance, and a brief bibliography. A glossary of furniture terms, including diagrams and line drawings, is also featured. This catalog is highly recommended for most decorative arts collections and general collections in major research libraries.
 

Classical Furniture Whitney Library of Design NY 1998 First American edition. Large format hardbound with dustjacket. Color photographs adn drawings. 208 pp. F/F
 

Honore Lannuier: Cabinetmaker from Paris - Antiques by Lise Bohm Honore Lannuier: Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ebeniste in Federal New York by Peter M. Kenny, Ulrich Leben, Frances F. Bretter, Bruce White (Photographer) Foreword by John K. Howat. This is a hardcover, 253pp. ISBN: 0810965178 published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in April 1998. Although his brief but productive career as a cabinetmaker in New York lasted a mere sixteen years, the French-born maitre ebeniste Charles-Honore Lannuier (1779-1819) was a leading figure in the development of a distinctive and highly refined style of furniture in the Late Federal period. A contemporary of the renowned master Duncan Phyfe, Lannuier, like him, made fashionable gilded card tables, marble-topped pier tables, bedsteads, and seating furniture for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, and Savannah. This volume, which complements the exhibition "Honore Lannuier, Parisian Cabinetmaker in Federal New York" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in spring 1998, represents the most complete study of Lannuier's life and work published to date.
 

Classical Taste In America 1800-1840 Softcover book (282 pages) written by Wendy A. Cooper. This book was published by Abbeville Press and the Baltimore Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition of Classical Taste in America organized by the Baltimore Museum. This is a first edition softcover book published in 1993. This book forms the catalog/explication for an exhibition in 1993-94 in Baltimore, Charlotte, and Houston. An introduction by Richard L. Bushman .. . {contends that} Americans were 'mesmerized by the classical world.' . . .{The book offers} five essays with objects as examples, in which Cooper . . .{argues that although} Americans borrowed from classical Antiquity, and occasionally from Egypt, contemporary France, and England, they always made 'American' interpretations." (Choice) Bibliography. Index. Buyer to pay shipping and handling of $5.50 in Continental USA.
 

AMERICAN ROCOCO, 1750-1775 WRITTEN BY MORRISON H. HECKSCHER AND LESLIE GREENE BOWMAN AND PUBLISHED BY HARRY N. ABRAMS AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART AND THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM IN 1992. THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK TO EXAMINE THE AMERICAN MANIFESTATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN STYLE IN ARCHITECTURE, ENGRAVINGS, SILVER, CAST IRON, GLASS AND PORCELAIN. AN EXCELLENT REFERENCE. ISBN: 0-8109-6412-0. HARD COVER BOOK WITH DUST JACKET. 11.25" X 9.25" X 1.25". 288 PAGES, 82 FULL-COLOR AND 168 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS.
 

Victorian Interior Decoration - American Interiors 1830-1900 New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, 1986. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Color photo inset in the middle of the book. Fantastic illustrations.
 

Centuries and Styles of the american Chair 1640-1870 Large volume in very good condition published by Dutton, New York: 1972 - First Edition, Stated. Hard Cover 516 pages; indexed; illustrated throughout with contemporary paintings, photographs, advertisements, etc. A vert clean copy. Edges of dust jacket lightly worn and lightly yellowed.
 

INNOVATIVE FURNITURE IN AMERICA FROM 1800 TO THE PRESENT BY DAVID HANKS Used SOFTCOVER copy in good condition. Two centuries of furniture as invention and as aesthetic object, ranging from Gragg's early 19th-century early 19th-century bentwood side chair to Gehry's 20th-century plied cardboard contour rocker. Notes, biblio., index. 171 illus: photos, drawings, historical catalogue & advertisements reproductions. 200p. Pap. ART-FURNITURE
 

HERE'S THE LONG OUT-OF-PRINT AND DIFFICULT TO FIND 1ST EDITION HARDCOVER BOOK WITH DUST JACKET "THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE 1876-1917" BY RICHARD GUY WILSON AND OTHERS! Published in 1979 by The Brooklyn Museum in association with Pantheon Books of New York, this visually loaded out-of-print 1st edition hardcover book provides the following statement: "One of the intents of the American Renaissance was the unification of all the arts into one creative amalgamation that would encompass painting, sculpture, the decorative arts, architecture, and the setting, whether the garden or the urban landscape, as a unit. This book, The American Renaissance, examines the various elements that went to make such a coherent aesthetic statement. It defines the concept of the movement and the impact it had upon life and culture in the United States from 1876 -- the Centennial Exposition and the beginning of internationalism -- to 1917 -- America's entry into the First World War." The book is divided into the following sections: 1) Foreword; 2) The Great Civilization; 3) Expressions of Identity; 4) Cultural Conditions; 5) Presence of the Past; 6) Scientific Eclecticism; 7) Periods and Organizations; 8) Statements of Culture; 9) Architecture, Landscape, and City Planning; 10) Decorative Art: The Domestic Environment; 11) Painting and Sculpture; 12) Index; 13) Selected Further Reading; 14) Catalogue of the Exhibition; 15) Acknowledgments; and 16) Index to Lenders. Some of the designers, manufacturers, and artists whose works are shown and/or discussed in this volume include but are not limited to: LIBBEY GLASS COMPANY, MT. WASHINGTON GLASSWORKS, NEW ENGLAND GLASS COMPANY, JOHN LA FARGE, UNION GLASS COMPANY, ALBERT HERTER, FRANCIS LATHROP, HECLA WORKS, TRENTON POTTERIES COMPANY, KNOWLES TAYLOR & KNOWLES, KARL MUELLER, STANFORD WHITE, ELIHU VEDDER, TIFFANY & COMPANY, AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS, GORHAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY, HERTER BROTHERS, POTTIER & STYMUS, ARTHUR & LUCIA MATHEWS, A. H. DAVENPORT & COMPANY, OGDEN CODMAN, RICHARD MORRIS HUNT, MCKIM MEAD & WHITE, CASS GILBERT, DANIEL BURNHAM, JOHN SINGER SARGENT, GUSTAV STICKLEY, THOMAS EAKINS, DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH, CARRERE & HASTINGS, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD, AMERICAN ENCAUSTIC TILE COMPANY, ROOKWOOD POTTERY, SAMUEL COLMAN, JAMES GILLINDER & SONS, among many, many others!