Product Description: New Perspectives on Boston Furniture gathers together nineteen essays first delivered at the Winterthur Museum’s 2013 Furniture Forum. It amply illustrates how research concerning one of America’s most productive centers of furniture-making has diversified in the forty years since the Colonial Society of Massachusetts published Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century (also distributed by Virginia), the proceedings of a similar conference held in 1973...read more

Product Description: Studio jewelry is defined not by an aesthetic or philosophy, but by its makers and their work process. Studio jewelers are independent artists in small workshops, directly handling their materials and producing one-of-a-kind pieces that are both decorative object and fine sculpture...read more

Product Description: At more than 500 pages, and featuring 1000 detailed reproductions, this handsome, extensive collection catalogue complements and updates Kathryn C. Buhler's landmark 1972 opus, American Silver, 1655-1825. It includes all of the American silver in the Museum of Fine Art's esteemed collection, including many previously unpublished works acquired between 1972 and 2004...read more

Uncovers the history of the United States through paintings, ceramics, furniture, and other works of art used around the American Revolution, from a collection found in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the Department of State.

Product Description: Folk art has been part of the American idiom for nearly as long as America has been a nation. Today it remains one of the best-loved and most fervently collected forms of American art, a diverse and authentic vernacular expression...read more

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Discusses five styles of American decorative arts

Product Description: The essays in this book explore a wide range of furniture styles, from colonial times to the present day. The first of four essays on regionalism calls for a more sophisticated approach that includes geographical, social and economic factors; the second examines early American furniture in the Atlantic community; and the other two discuss the furniture of Appalachia and the St...read more

Product Description: A useful bibliography on 21 specific aspects of decorative arts and household furnishings.

Product Description: 273 pp. Profusely illustrated. An examination of the explosion of illustrated books in the 1800's. Nine essays cover every facet including techniques; popular illustrators; the use of illustration in architectural books, natural history book, encyclopedias and other non-fiction; gift editions; and books in the art-deco style...read more