In Quest of Comfort: The Easy Chair in America
NY: Metropolian Museum of Art, 1971. Softcover. Blue stapled wraps. 15 pp. 7 bw plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. More
NY: Metropolian Museum of Art, 1971. Softcover. Blue stapled wraps. 15 pp. 7 bw plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. More
New York: The Metropolian Museum of Art / Random House, 1985. Hardcover. red cloth boards w/ inlaid lettering & gilt spine printing. 383 pgs w/ b&w & color illustrations. More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977. Softcover. Yellow pictorial stapled wraps; 36 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name, which featured painted American furniture in the Federal, Empire, Arts and Crafts, Art Deco, and other styles. More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Hardcover. Fuchsia cloth, 191 pp., 140+ BW illus. "The aim of the writer has been ... to furnish the reader with a full equipment for a knowledge and understanding of American furnitutre, the appropriate interior, and its decoration; to place before him a large..... More
New York: Spring Books, 1969. Hardcover. Black cloth with black ill DJ. Ill paste-down. 320 pp. 32 color plates and 230 bw ills. Study of some of the world's most prolific furniture makers including Chippendale, Sheraton, Boulle, Piranesi and Le Corbusier. More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Craftsman of 1935, 1935. Hardcover. maroon boards w/ gilt spine printing. yellow, marbled pastedowns & endpapers. 340 pgs w/ photographic plates; frontispiece. deckled edges. rear, tipped-in errata slip. A handsome, sturdy library rebinding with frontispiece, plates and errata slip. Pages have been inspected and appear clean, with some..... More
Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1935. Softcover. Blue paper stapled wraps, [24 pp]. 15 bw illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1935 exhibition of 112 pieces of furniture and 26 memorabilia items, all examples from Philadelphia furniture makers, ranging from James Chick (1696) to Abraham Hopper (1699). Scarce. More
Cincinnati: Ohio University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Red cloth with greyish color illustrated dustcover. xv, 295 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Based on the 19th century regional carved furniture movement inspired by the carvings of Henry Fry and Benn Pitman. Lavishly illustrated. More
Houston, Tex. The Museum of Fine Arts, 1976. Softbound. Brownish, illustrated elongated wraps, vii, 101 pp., 195 bw illustrations with a few color. Issued in conjunction with a 1976 exhibition. Each of the 195 items presented is annotated and illustrated, including 113 examples of Gothic Revival furniture and furniture designs..... More
Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1976. Softcover. Brownish, illustrated elongated wraps with illustration. 101 pp., 195 bw and color illustrations. Uncommon title--first edition, 2500 printed. Each of the 195 items presented is annotated and illustrated, including 113 examples of Gothic Revival furniture and furniture designs (including many chairs)..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. Paperback. Black & decorated wraps, 272 pp. 133 color, 167 bw plates. A history of Herter Brothers, America's leading cabinetmakers during the Golden Era of the last half of the nineteenth century. The book was originally prepared as a catalogue for a travelling exhibition..... More
East Aurora, NY: House of Hubbard, 1973. Softbound. Tan color illustrated wraps. ii, 61 pp. Illustrated in B&W. A facsimile of a 1912 catalog with other material added for the sake of interest. More
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1968. First/Original. Hardcover. Tan cloth, brown cloth spine with gilt lettering. xiv, 424 pp. Profusely illustrated in bw. DJ missing. Part one covers the Dominy craftsmen and how they lived; part two covers the tool collection, and the woodworking and metalworking tools; and part..... More
Rockland, Maine: Dowling Walsh Gallery, 2012. Paperback. Small, oblong white stapled wraps with black lettering and color illustrations. 20 unnumbered pp., comprised mostly of color plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held May 4-26, 2012. Rodney Hunt creates miniature scale models of antique chairs. "The chairs are made to a scale..... More
Softcover. White stapled wraps. 28 pp. Numerous bw plates. More
Washington, D.C. Highland House Publishers, Inc., 1988. Hardbound. Red leatherette covered boards, white & color illus. dust jacket, pp. 584-847 + index, BW and color illus. Includes chairs, tables, sofas, highboys, lowboys, sideboards, mirrors, clocks, chests, wardrobes, etc. Nice! More
Washington, D.C. Highland House Publishers, Inc., 1974. Hardbound. Red leatherette covered boards, white & color illus. dust jacket, pp. 852-1112 + index, BW and color illus. Consists of brochures #22-25 from Israel Sack. Includes chairs, tables, sofas, highboys, lowboys, sideboards, mirrors, clocks, chests, wardrobes, etc. Nice! More
New York: Israel Sack, Inc., 1976. Brochure Number Twenty-Eight. Softbound. White stapled wraps, 60 pp, profusely illustrated in BW. Until its closing in 2002, Israel Sack, Inc, was regarded as the preeminent specialist in antique American furniture and a model of ethical and aesthetic standards. Opportunities in American Antiques was..... More
NY: Hastings House Publishers, 1957. Hardcover. Blue boards, grey DJ. 241 pp. Numerous bw illus. From the DJ... "Here is a comprehensive account of the changing styles of chairs from the time of our first English colonists to the time, during the Victorian era, when mass-production methods superceded the individual..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1852. Hardcover. Green library buckram. 167 pp + 24 pp advertisements. 5 bw plates. More
Buffalo, New York: Burchfield Art Center, 1994. Softcover. Dark green wraps with color illustration and white lettering; 104 pp. with numerous bw and occasional color illustrations. Includes extensive biographical essay material about Rohlfs as actor, designer and citizen; with photographs of the furniture and settings of his stunning Art Nouveau..... More
Buffalo, New York: Burchfield Art Center, 1994. Softcover. Dark green wraps with color illustration and white lettering; 104 pp. with numerous bw and occasional color illustrations. Includes extensive biographical essay material about Rohlfs as actor, designer and citizen; with photographs of the furniture and settings of his stunning Art Nouveau..... More
Buffalo, New York: Burchfield Art Center, 1994. Softcover. Dark green wraps with color illustration and white lettering; 104 pp. with numerous bw and occasional color illustrations. Includes extensive biographical essay material about Rohlfs as actor, designer and citizen; with photographs of the furniture and settings of his stunning Art Nouveau..... More
Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1991. Hardbound. Beige boards. 231 pages, 241 colour and b&w illustrations. 6 Maps. From DJ: The striking pieces of furniture which have come to be identified as Mennonite furniture on the North American Plains point to a much earlier time in the history of furniture making..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine. xviii, gray dust jacket with color illustration. 494 pp. 12 color plates, 148 bw illus.; weighs 4.25 lbs. Selections from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Colonial New England furniture illustrated with 450 b&w and..... More