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RECOMMENDED READING LIST FOR AMERICAN FURNITURETo browse the books on American Furniture we currently have in stock, click on this link View our books on this subject
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As we’ve said, several experts have assisted us with these lists. Each had their own thoughts as to which books to recommend, but two were on every list. All agree that these books are the essential tools for training the eye to discern differences in quality.
Fine Points of American Furniture by Albert Sack (This book is known as “Good, Better and Best”)
New Fine Points of American Furniture, by Albert Sack. This book adds two additional grades to the first book and it has color plates
Also recommended for an understanding of the aesthetics of American furniture
Early American Furniture: How to Recognize, Evaluate, Buy and Care for the Most Beautiful Pieces by John Kirk
In Praise of America by Wendy Cooper
There was also a general consensus on the value of the following books in their respective subject areas.
For Painted Furniture
American Painted Furniture 1660-1880 by Dean Fales
American Painted Furniture by Klein and Schaffner
For Windsor Chairs
American Windsor Chairs by Nancy Goyne Evans
American Windsor Furniture: Specialized Forms by Nancy Goyne Evans
The Windsor Style in America by Charles Santore
For Formal Furniture
AMERICAN FURNITURE: THE FEDERAL PERIOD IN THE HENRY FRANCIS DU PONT WINTERTHUR MUSEUM by Charles Montgomery
American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale by Joseph Downs
New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods by Nancy Richards and Nancy Goyne Evansl
American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art:Vol. 2 Late Colonial Period: Queen Anne and Chippendale, by Morrison Hecksher
AMERICAN FURNITURE WITH RELATED DECORATIVE ARTS, 1660-1830: THE MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM AND THE LAYTON ART COLLECTION edited by Gerald Ward
Classical Taste in America 1800-1840 by Wendy Cooper
For Early Furniture
American Seating Furniture 1630-1730 An Interpretive Catalog by Benno Forman
Pilgrim Century Furniture by Wallace Nutting
Pine Furniture of New England by Russell Kettel
American Furniture in The British Tradition by John Kirk
Courts and Colonies: The William and Mary Style in Holland, England and America Cooper Hewitt Musuem
Worldly Goods by Jack Lindsay
New England Furniture: The Colonial Era by Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye
Hearts and Crowns by Robert Trent
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