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Furniture 2 Neoclassic to the Present
Author: William C. Ketchum, Jr.

"Volume 1 of this two-part series, Prehistoric Through Rococo, dealt with furniture made up to 1800. During this vast span of time surprisingly few innovations in technique and materials appeared, though many different design types emerged. Volume 2, Neoclassic to the Present, deals with a much shorter period, ... more »but one in which a virtual revolution in technique and taste took place." Thus writes William Ketchum in his Introduction to Furniture 2, a work that provides an illuminating analysis of this complex period and its many coexisting styles.

Beginning with an examination of the opulent French Empire style, which swept through the Western world at the time of Napoleon's conquests around 1800, the author shows how the lingering influence of Thomas Sheraton resulted in a simpler version of Empire in England -- the Regency style. He then goes on to demonstrate how these two sometimes conflicting currents fed the great stream of American Empire, characterized by the designs of Duncan Phyfe and Charles Honore Lannuier.

With Napoleon's fall came the rise of the British manufacturers, and it is perhaps appropriate that the English, who had toppled Napoleon at Waterloo, inherited his role of design arbiter. Industrialization and population expansion became the vital elements in the growth of the modern furniture industry in Victorian England, with the manufacturers cateing to the taste for revivals of earlier styles among the newly urbanized middles class. Renaissance, Gothic, rococo -- all were adapted to mass production. A similar enthusiam for revival styles developed in the United States, where John Henry Belter's rococo parlor and bedroom suites, for example, were regarded as indispensible for properous merchants and rising professionals.

In the second half of the nineteenth century new voices began to be heard, those of the reformers reacting against the dominance of these Victorian revival styles. With the help of a generous number of illustrations, in both color and black and white, the reader is guided through the often confusing but always fascinating multitude of trends -- from the Arts and Crafts movement to Art Nouveau, from Art Deco to the International style -- that resulted from this revolt. Using the new materials and technology of the modern age, the designers of the revolutionary International style continue to provide attractive and practical furniture in our day.

A chapter on collecting, a glossary of special terms, a list of further reading and a guide to public collections of furniture extend the usefulness of this concise work.

ISBN-13: 9780910503334
ISBN-10: 0910503338
Publication Date: 6/1981
Pages: 128
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Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Book Type: Hardcover
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