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Informationen zum Autor Lonn Taylor is an authority on the architecture, furniture, and decorative arts of the American Southwest. He had a twenty-year career at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., and also served as director of the University of Texas at Austin's Winedale Historical Center.David B. Warren is an expert on American decorative arts and Founding Director Emeritus of Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the former home of Miss Ima Hogg and now a museum of American decorative arts and paintings owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Klappentext Back in print for the first time in thirty years and thoroughly updated, Texas Furniture is the definitive guide to the state's rich heritage of locally made nineteenth-century furniture and the craftsmen who produced it. Zusammenfassung Back in print for the first time in thirty years and thoroughly updated, Texas Furniture is the definitive guide to the state's rich heritage of locally made nineteenth-century furniture and the craftsmen who produced it Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Miss Ima Hogg Acknowledgments Mid-Nineteenth-Century Texas: The Coast and the Hinterland Cabinetmaking in the Hinterland Furniture of the Frontier: The Surviving Evidence Beds, Cribs, and Cradles Wardrobes Chests of Drawers Chairs and Stools Sofas, Settees, Benches, and Day Beds Tables and Stands Desks Cupboards Safes A Checklist of Texas Cabinetmakers Appendix Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
