Synopses & Reviews
The first major study of furniture from the Old South, Southern Furniture 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection examines objects that were once found in homes from Maryland to the Carolina Low Country. No other book contains so much fine and diverse furniture, such rich documentation, and such a coherent overview of the regional styles of the Old South.
Incorporating both urban and rural, high-style and plain pieces, Southern Furniture 1680-1830 explores the economic and cultural diversity of the region, and provides the most recent information about the South's little-known but extensive furniture-making traditions. It draws its examples from the particularly fine collection at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, one of the nation's most popular historical sites. These beautiful objects, often with fascinating regional characteristics, have never before been examined and explained with such care. Large color photographs made especially for this book reproduce 183 key examples of Southern furniture, and there are hundreds of other color and black-and-white photographs of details.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 617-623) and index.