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The Cabinetmaker and the Carver

Boston Furniture from Private Collections

Gerald W R Ward author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Massachusetts Historical Society

Published:3rd Oct '13

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The Cabinetmaker and the Carver cover

For centuries Boston has been one of the most important furniture-making centres in America. Soon after the town’s founding in 1630, Boston’s joiners and turners were the first craftsmen to make furniture in British North America, and the city’s cabinetmakers contributed to the art and craft of furniture making throughout the elegant colonial and federal periods. Its factories and designers have also been a source of fine furniture, creating major pieces in the various revival styles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Massachusetts Historical Society, The Cabinetmaker and the Carver showcases rare and exemplary pieces from private collections, illustrating three centuries of Boston history through carefully selected examples of furniture that represent the trajectory of this great tradition.

Distributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society.

ISBN: 9781936520060

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 200g

64 pages