Texas Furniture, Volume One The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880, Revised Edition

Name: Texas Furniture, Volume One The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880, Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9780292728691

ISBN-10: 0292728697

ISBN-13: 9780292728691

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lonn Taylor, David B. Warren, Ima Hogg

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The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas Furniture and its makers. They spent more than a decade working with museums and private collectors throughout the state to examine and photograph representative examples. They also combed census records, newspapers, and archives for information about cabinetmakers. These efforts resulted in the 1975 publication ofTexas Furniture, which quickly became the authoritative reference on this subject.Now…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.344
Language: English

Lonn Taylor is an authority on the architecture, furniture, and decorative arts of the American Southwest. He had a twenty-year career at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., and also served as director of the University of Texas at Austin’s Winedale Historical Center.