9780300047622-0300047622-English Vernacular Furniture, 1750-1900 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

English Vernacular Furniture, 1750-1900 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

ISBN-13: 9780300047622
ISBN-10: 0300047622
Edition: First Edition
Author:
Publication date: 1991
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Format: Hardcover 534 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780300047622
ISBN-10: 0300047622
Edition: First Edition
Author:
Publication date: 1991
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Format: Hardcover 534 pages

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English Vernacular Furniture, 1750-1900 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (ISBN-13: 9780300047622 and ISBN-10: 0300047622), written by authors , was published by Paul Mellon Centre in 1991. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Furniture Design (Decorative Arts & Design) books. You can easily purchase or rent English Vernacular Furniture, 1750-1900 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Furniture Design books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.51.

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The vernacular furniture used by ordinary people has only recently been considered a subject worthy of study. In this magisterial book―the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of English vernacular furniture―Christopher Gilbert demonstrates that common furniture possesses as much interest as fashionable pieces made for country houses.

Gilbert investigates over twenty well-defined vernacular subgroups that have never previously been explored in detail, including furniture made for workhouses, schools, prisons, Quaker meetinghouses, army barracks, alehouses, lunatic asylums, shops, railway premises, and ships. He also discusses such facets of vernacular furniture making as regional differences in the production of chairs and beds; mainstream cottage and farmhouse domestic furniture; and traditional straw and wicker crafts. Although Gilbert’s main focus is on the English vernacular tradition, he also touches on furniture form Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the channel Islands. He makes extensive use of provincial Books of Price sand various Parliamentary Reports on living conditions that often contain splendidly detailed first hand evidence about domestic interiors, and he has provided numerous illustrations of securely provenanced items to support his text.

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