Identifying American Furniture A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms Colonial to Contemporary

by Naeve, Milo M.

• ISBN13: 9780393318449
• ISBN10: 0393318443
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Identifying American Furniture offers answers to the questions most people ask about furniture: "What style is that?" "How can you tell?" and "When was it popular?" Curators, collectors, appraisers, connoisseurs of furniture, and students of history, architecture, and the arts '” as well as those just learning the fascination of stylistic trends in American furniture'”will find this succinct handbook essential. Styles are arranged chronologically from 1607 to the present and represent all thirty-five major furniture styles from Arts and Crafts to Windsor. Milo M. Naeve's vivid commentary draws attention to the book's 196 photographs, pinpointing distinctions among the styles. Naeve also offers an excellent guide for further reading.

Table of Contents

About the Author	4	(1)
Introduction	5	(2)
Preface	7	(6)
STYLES
Medieval Style, 1607--1700	13	(2)
Renaissance Style, 1607--1700	15	(2)
Restoration Style, 1660--1700	17	(2)
William and Mary Style, 1695--1730	19	(2)
Queen Anne Style, 1730--1760	21	(2)
Chippendale Style, 1755--1790	23	(2)
Federal Style, 1790--1815	25	(2)
Phyfe Style, 1801--1825	27	(2)
Classical Styles, 1805--1840	29	(2)
Empire Style, 1810--1820	31	(2)
French Restauration Style, 1830--1850	33	(2)
Gothic Revival Style, 1841--1860	35	(2)
Elizabethan Style, 1851--1915	37	(2)
Rococo Revival Style, 1845--1865	39	(2)
Naturalistic Style, 1850--1865	41	(2)
Louis XVI Style, 1850--1914	43	(2)
Renaissance Revival Style, 1851--1880	45	(2)
Neo-Greek Style, 1855--1885	47	(2)
Egyptian Revival Style, 1865--1890	49	(2)
Reform and Eastlake Styles, 1872--1885	51	(2)
Art Furniture Styles, 1875--1914	53	(2)
Art Nouveau Style, 1896--1914	55	(2)
Arts and Crafts Styles, 1885--1915	57	(2)
Prairie School Style, 1900--1920	59	(2)
Art Deco Styles, 1925--1945	61	(2)
International Style, 1940--present	63	(2)
Craftsman Styles, 1945--present	65	(2)
Contemporary Styles, 1981--present	67	(2)
Dutch Style, 1624--1860	69	(2)
German Style, 1751--1870	71	(2)
Spanish Style, 1601--1900	73	(2)
Vernacular Styles, 1671--1790	75	(2)
Vernacular Styles, 1791--1914	77	(2)
Shaker Style, 1801--1914	79	(2)
Windsor Style, 1750--present	81	(2)
Garden Furniture Styles, 1801--1914	83	(18)
FURTHER READING
Periodicals	85	(1)
Books, Articles, and Manuscripts	85	(16)
Background Sources: Architecture and Design	85	(5)
General Sources: American Furniture	90	(4)
Regional Sources: Hawaiian Islands	94	(1)
Regional Sources: Mid-Atlantic	94	(2)
Regional Sources: Midwest	96	(1)
Regional Sources: New England	97	(2)
Regional Sources: South	99	(1)
Regional Sources: Southwest	100	(1)
Regional Sources: West	100	(1)
Index	101