Résumé:
Informationen zum Autor Kemble Widmer has applied his training and career as an industrial engineer to his examination of early furniture in Boston and Essex County, Massachusetts. Over twenty-five years, by rigorously documenting and comparing like forms, he has determined places of origin and even individual craftsmen. His research on Nathaniel Gould has disclosed an unparalleled amount of information about cabinetmaking, customers, and colonial life.Joyce King, an eleventh generation inhabitant of Salem, Massachusetts, is an expert in genealogical research. She has collaborated closely with her co-author on numerous issues of provenance that have enabled attributions of furniture to Nathaniel Gould.Contributing AuthorsGlenn Adamson, formerly Head of Research, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is The Nanette L. Laitman Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Modern Craft and the author of Inventing Modern Craft. Daniel Finamore is The Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. Dean Lahikainen is The Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. His publications include Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style and In the American Spirit: Folk Art from the Collections (of the Peabody Essex Museum). Elisabeth Garrett Widmer, formerly director of Sotheby's American Arts course and a Senior Vice President at Christie's, New York, and director of Classes in Connoisseurship, is an authority on American eighteenth- and nineteenth-century decorative arts and social history. Her publications include At Home: The American Family 1750 - 1870. Klappentext A major addition to the study of American colonial and post-colonial furniture, and to the scholarship on Nathaniel Gould. Zusammenfassung A major addition to the study of American colonial and post-colonial furniture! and to the scholarship on Nathaniel Gould. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordAcknowledgmentsNote to the ReaderEssaysHidden in Plain Sight Kemble Widmer and Joyce KingBehind the Curve? Putting Nathaniel Gould in Perspective Glenn AdamsonGrand Houses and Rural Retreats Dean Thomas LahikainenBrides, Housewives, and Hostesses: Acquiring, Using,Caring for and Enjoying Mr. Gould's Furniture Elisabeth Garretttt Widmer"Desks took on bord" in Nathaniel Gould's Caribbean Furniture Trade Daniel FinamoreThe Business of Cabinetmaking Kemble Widmer and Joyce KingCatalogue of Nathaniel Gould's Furniture Forms by Kemble Widmer and Joyce KingCase Furniture ConstructionChests of Drawers IntroductionCases of Drawers IntroductionDesks and Desk-and-Bookcases IntroductionSeating Furniture IntroductionTables IntroductionBedsteadsAppendicesClient ListDrop-Leaf Tables Price ListIntroduction and Key for the AppendicesAppendix A: Furniture Orders by FormAppendix B: Journeymen and ApprenticesAppendix C: Nathaniel Gould's Export OrdersAppendix D: Furniture Orders Associated with WeddingsAppendix E: Furniture Orders Associated with ChildrenPhoto CreditsBibliographyIndex...