Books of Antiques & Collectibles / Furniture

  • Caribbean Elegance
    By Michael W. Connors

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  • American Furniture, 1620 to the Present
    By Jonathan L. Fairbanks, Elizabeth Bidwell Bates

    Meant for both connoisseur and amateur, this is the definitive book in its field. During ten years of research, the authors examined furniture from coast to coast, in museums and...

  • The Windsor Style in America: A pictorial study of the history and regional characteristics of the most popular furniture form...
    By Charles Santore

    Shows various styles of Windsor chairs, traces their history in the U.S., and discusses their identification marks and construction

  • Masterpieces of American Furniture, 1620-1840: A Compendium, with Photos., Measured Drawings and Descriptive Commentary
    By Lester Margon

    Masterpieces of American Furniture, 1620-1840: A Compendium, with Photos., Measured Drawings and Descriptive Commentary

  • Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840
    By Christopher Gilbert, Geoffrey Beard

    A reference work on furniture makers active in England between 1660 and 1840. It lists makers in alphabetical order, recording biographical details, commissions, and information about signed or documented pieces,...

  • American Furniture
    By Luke Beckerdite

    American Furniture

  • Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts at Boscobel
    By Berry B. Tracy

    The genesis of this volume was the discovery, in 1975, of a faded copy of the inventory of States Dyckman's possessions, taken shortly after his death in 1806. The document...

  • American Furniture at Chipstone
    By Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque

    A lavish presentation of this fine Milwaukee collection. Two hundred pieces of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth-century American furniture. Each entry includes all known information about the particular object's history,...

  • Classic America: The Federal Style & Beyond
    By Wendell D. Garrett

    One of today's foremost authorities on American antiques presents a profusely illustrated book on America's Federal style. These private and public homes--including Monticello, the White House, the Gardner Pingree House,...

  • Sleeping Around: The Bed from Antiquity to Now
    By Annie Carlano, Bobbie Sumberg

    There's more than one way to make a bed, and humans throughout history have devised every sort they could imagine. From a simple blanket laid on the ground to elaborately...

  • Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: Stickley and Roycroft Mission Oak
    By David M. Cathers

    Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: Stickley and Roycroft Mission Oak

  • Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840
    By Christopher Gilbert

    A record of marked items made by London furniture makers between 1700 and 1840. The survey contains illustrations supported by background notes on the makers, together with an introduction which...

  • The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies
    By John Kassay

    When John Kassay published The Book of Shaker Furniture in 1980, it was universally praised for its exquisitely rendered and finely detailed drawings of Shaker furniture. In the intervening years,...

  • Wicker Furniture: A Guide to Restoring & Collecting
    By Richard Saunders

    The definitive guide for decorators and collectors. Includes an eight-page color insert on rare and unusual wicker pieces, two chapters on 1920s wicker and buying old wicker, along with advice...

  • Artificial Sunshine: A Social History of Domestic Lighting
    By Maureen Dillon

    An exploration of domestic lighting from the middle ages to the 1990s, ranging from the practical considerations to the influence of lighting upon the clothes people wore and the way...

  • Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania
    By Margaret Berwind Schiffer

    This book is a 476-page survey of furniture craftsmen working in Chester County, Pennsylvania from its founding in 1682 to 1850 when there was a recognized decline in the handicraft...

  • 傢俱史
    By 陳於書

    本書每一部分都在分析各個歷史時期歷史背景的基礎上,突出介紹各個歷史階段傢俱的種類、造型特徵、結構特點、選材特色、工藝技術以及傢俱發展特徵等方面的內容。書中在充分利用出土實物和文獻、傳世資料的同時,以圖文並茂的形式,對主要傢俱的發展特徵進行分析評述,旨在增強傢俱史學的形象性和可讀性,使讀者對各個時期、各個地區的傢俱能有一個比較形象直觀的認識,避免單純文字描述的呆板和晦澀難懂,更有利於充分體現傢俱藝術的時代風格和特有魅力。此外,還加入了編者多年來的研究成果。傢俱是一種凝固的藝術,是人類生活的縮影,因為它濃縮了人類對物質的駕馭能力,沉澱著社會的政治文化,更凝結著藝術家智慧的結晶。當我們回顧這件件傢俱物品時,可以從中感受到先輩們探索和進步的足跡,也可領悟凝聚在傢俱中的豐富內涵。 *本書為簡體字版

  • Chairs: A History
    By Florence de Dampierre

    Henry David Thoreau wrote, I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. In Chairs: A History, furniture historian Florence de Dampierre presents...

  • The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany
    By Martin Eidelberg, Louis Comfort Tiffany

    This is the first book devoted to Tiffany lamps in more than 20 years. Experts in the field have made a selection of exceptional lamps-many of which have rarely been...

  • The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American, Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece
    By Albert Sack

    This definitive volume is based on his original ground-breaking premise that the standards used in judging American furniture are directly related to the design, proportion, finish, construction, and craftsmanship of...