Identifying American Furniture offers answers to the questions most people ask about furniture: "What style is that?" "How can you tell?" and "When was it popular?" Curators, collectors, appraisers, connoisseurs of furniture, and students of history, architecture, and the arts -- as well as those just learning the fascination of stylistic trends in American furniture -- will find this succinct handbook essential.
Styles are arranged chronologically from 1607 to the present and represent all thirty-five major furniture styles from Arts and Crafts to Windsor. Milo M. Naeve's vivid commentary draws attention to the book's 196 photographs, pinpointing distinctions among the styles. Naeve also offers an excellent guide for further reading.
Herman Miller: The Purpose of Design
In 1936, Herman Miller Inc. founder D. J. De Pree committed Herman Miller to "modern" furniture. The rest is history: their continuing collaboration with some of the giants of modern design has made Herman Miller synonymous with quality in design. Herman Miller examines the company's powerful contributions by looking at the problems that design can solve and how creative thinking can benefit the world. Aside from having produced icons of modern furniture, Herman Miller has revolutionized office systems and furniture in the workplace.
A definitive history of design and the company's work since its founding, Herman Miller features the legendary designs of Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Gilbert Rohde, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, and many more. It is a must-read for collectors, designers, professionals, students, and anyone with an interest in design.
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Shopping for Furniture: A Consumer's Guide
Of critical interest to anyone considering a major furniture purchase, this guide seeks to make consumers experts on buying residential furniture by focusing on informed purchasing and shopping for value, not simply price.
Shopping for Furniture: A Consumer's Guide
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Danish Modern and Beyond: Scandinavian Inspired Furniture from Heywood-Wakefield
The sleek lines of Danish Modern furniture took the design world by storm in the mid-twentieth century. Among the American companies that manufactured this style of furniture was the Heywood-Wakefield Co., based in Gardner, Massachusetts. Known widely today for their lines of blonde furniture, Heywood-Wakefield addressed the American family's desire for an informal yet sophisticated look through its Danish Modern and related lines produced in the 1950s and 1960s. Here are original Heywood-Wakefield catalog images of Danish inspired living room, dining room, and bedroom furniture, featuring original catalog descriptions, model numbers, and measurements for all pieces. A price guide showing current market values is included. Collectors, designers, and aficionados of vintage furniture will welcome this timeless presentation.
Danish Modern and Beyond: Scandinavian Inspired Furniture from Heywood-Wakefield
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Goodnight, Sweet Pig
In this swine-stuffed count-along bedtime book, one Rham-bunctiousS pig after another comes crowding into poor Pig Number One's bedroom--each one with his own special way of keeping her awake. Full color.
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In The Bedroom
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture (2001), this universally acclaimed film features Academy Award-winners Sissy Spacek (Best Actress, "Coal Miner's Daughter", 1980) and Marisa Tomei (Best Supporting Actress, "My Cousin Vinnie", 1992), and Academy Award-nominee Tom Wilkinson (Best Actor, "In the Bedroom", 2001). When young Frank Fowler (Nick Stahl) becomes romantically involved with an older single mother (Tomei), his parents (Spacek and Wilkinson) are concerned. But when the...
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Fruit Design Laser-Cut Plastic Stencils by Sue Brooks, ISBN 0486290700
Enhance walls, furniture, fabrics, more, with 7 plastic stencils, laser-cut for sharpest detail and greatest durability. Pears, lemons, pineapples, cherries, etc. Instructions.
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