Roth Kenneth Editor (9 results)

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254 pages. Large paperback: H 27.75cm x L 21.25cm. Paper covers rubbed with minor wear at edges; light crease/curl at front cover's bottom fore-edge corner; scuffing and slight bumping at spine ends; light soiling to rear cover. Several brown stains (coffee?) at text block's lower fore-edge. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. With Editor's Acknowledgments by Kenneth L. Ames, Notes on Contributors, and b/w photographs/illustrations. Features the following: Introductory essay "Furniture Study: Moving into the Mainstream" by Kenneth L. Ames; SECTION 1-CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN FURNITURE STYLE "The Ironies of Style: Complexities and Contradictions in American Decorative Arts, 1850 to 1900" by Harvey Green; "They Don't Make It Anymore" by Wilson H. Faude; "Fine Points of Furniture, American Empire: Late, Later, Latest" by Donald L. Fennimore; SECTION 2-BUSINESS, COMMERCE AND LABOR "Arms Across the Border: Trade in Chairs and Chair Parts Between the United States and Upper Canada" by W. John McIntyre; "A Tradition in Transition: The Boston Furniture Industry, 1840-1880" by Jan M. Seidler; "Shop and Factory: Philadelphia Furniture Makers and Manufacturers, 1850-1880" by Paige Talbot; SECTION 3-STUDIES OF SPECIFIC FIRMS AND FORMS "Boston Nineteenth Century Pianoforte Manufacture: The Contributions of Jonas Chickering" by Nancy A. Smith; "Prosperity Through Patents: The Furniture of George Hunzinger & Son" by Richard W. Flint; "Seating for any Place: The Folding Chair" by Rodris Roth; "The Spinning Wheel as Artifact, Symbol, and Source of Design" by Christopher Monkhouse; SECTION 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" by Kenneth R. Trapp; "'The Decoration of Houses' and Scientific Eclecticism" by Richard Guy Wilson; "Frank Lloyd Wright's 'The Art and Craft of the Machine'" by David A. Hanks; "The Furniture and Furnishings of Wilson Eyre (1858-1944)" by Edward Teitelman and Betsy Fahlman; SECTION 5-ON THE GEOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL PERIPHERY "Respectability at $50 Down, 20 Months to Pay! Furnishing a Working-class Victorian Home" by Lizabeth Cohen; and "High Style in Montana: The Kohrs Parlor" by Rodd L. Wheaton. …

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