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Southern Furniture, 1680–1830: <br>The Colonial Williamsburg Collection

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"Southern Furniture, 1680–1830:
The Colonial Williamsburg Collection"

By Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown
Winner, Charles F. Montgomery Award

Southern Furniture is the first modern, broad-ranging study of furniture made and used in the early South. Going beyond earlier aesthetic and stylistic analyses, the authors provide the most recent information about the region’s cabinetmaking traditions and ethnic and cultural diversity. One hundred eighty-three catalog entries discuss the utilitarian, aesthetic, and symbolic functions of each object.
Published in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
Colonial Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series
640 pp., 220 color photographs, 565 black-and-white illustrations, 3 maps, 26 line drawings, 9 3/4 x 11 1/4
1997; 2nd printing 1998
CW No. 521930
Hardbound
ISBN 0-87935-200-0
$75.00
Available through www.williamsburgmarketplace.com.


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