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Neat Pieces - The Plain-style Furniture of Nineteenth-century Georgia (Paperback, New)
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Neat Pieces - The Plain-style Furniture of Nineteenth-century Georgia (Paperback, New)
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Neat Pieces is a detailed, extensively illustrated survey of the
major forms and makers of the ""plain style"" of furniture made in
the 1800s. Simply designed, solidly constructed of local woods, and
usually unadorned, such pieces were used daily by their owners for
storage, sleeping, eating, and more. Today, this furniture is read
for clues into a past way of life by historians, folklorists, and
other experts. It is also prized by museums, antiques dealers and
auction houses, and furniture appraisers, collectors, and makers.
""Neat Pieces"" first appeared as the companion volume to the
Atlanta History Center's seminal 1983 exhibit of the same name. The
exhibit featured 126 exemplary pieces of furniture (including
chairs, tables, slabs, huntboards, washstands, and candlestands).
Each of them is described and illustrated in this book. Photographs
in the original edition of ""Neat Pieces"" were black-and-white;
here they are in full color. A new foreword by Deanne Levison looks
at related publications and exhibits of the subsequent two decades.
The introduction, by William W. Griffin, provides information on
furniture forms, nomenclature, and finishes. Also included in the
book is a list of more than twelve hundred nineteenth-century
Georgia furniture craftsmen, indicating for each the key details of
their life and occupation.
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