Scottish Vernacular Furniture - Hardcover

Bernard D. Cotton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 050023857X ISBN 13: 9780500238578

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This book represents thirty years of research into the vernacular furniture traditions of Scotland from the end of the 17th century on into the 20th century. As in the rest of Britain and Europe, such furniture formed part of the distinctive culture of a place, in a similar way to local architecture, dialects and customs. If not often high art, the pieces in this book prove that limited resources and functional requirements need not exclude beauty and charm. The authors made it a priority to see pieces in their contexts, to meet the people who used them, and to understand how they were made. The story of their quest, which took them as far afield as New Zealand, is itself an adventure, and the objects they photographed represent the life and death of a community, the vital relics of a vanished culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction · Houses and History · Beds and Cradles · Storage and Display · Seat Furniture · Accessories

About this title

Review:

'Can be very highly commended ... a major work bringing to a wide audience many of the distinctive forms of Scottish furniture in a publication of real quality' --Scottish Vernacular Building

'Lavishly and often movingly illustrated ... The tone of this book may be judicious and scholarly, but there's no disguising Cotton's excitement at his discoveries ... enthralling'
--Scottish Review of Books

About the Author:

Bernard Cotton is a co-founder of the Regional Furniture Society and the author of The English Regional Chair.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 050023857X
• ISBN 13: 9780500238578
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304