Charleston Furniture, 1700-1825 E.For fashion, elegance, and wealth, the port city of Charleston, South Carolina, flourished without parallel in colonial America, and the furniture that filled its fine homes reflected the prosperit
| Title | : | Charleston Furniture, 1700-1825 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (324 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1570031479 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1997-06-01 |
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Editorial : About the Author E. Milby Burton (1898-1977) was director of the Charleston Museum for forty years. His articles appeared in the magazine Antiques and the New York Times, and his books include South Carolina Silversmiths and The Siege of Charleston, 1861-1865.
For fashion, elegance, and wealth, the port city of Charleston, South Carolina, flourished without parallel in colonial America, and the furniture that filled its fine homes reflected the prosperity and sophistication of its strikingly urbane population. E. Milby Burton's classic study, illustrated with more than 140 photographs, catalogues the trends in design and changes in taste of a city that amassed some of the finest furniture in North America
The Lehman collection was started by Philip Lehman and substantially enlarged by his son Robert. One of the most commendable features of this catalog is that it very carefully identifies these, with references to the scholarship on the fakers where available. The European furniture-many Italian Renaissance pieces including an array of rather heavy cassone-occupies around 100 pages of this catalog.
The objects are generally of superior quality and attest to the Lehman's refined taste. 1470). But to see it in the context of this exhibition is to realize anew how uniquely, and literally, "bloody shocking" it is. I wish there were even more information, specifying exactly how one can look at the individual pieces and see what is "wrong" with them, maybe with detail photos even, but this is far ahead of most such works that ignore or gloss over problematic pieces.
Prospective buyers should be aware that "decorative arts" here does not include silverwares, which I presu
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