Making Furniture in Preindustrial America

The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut

AvEdward S. Cooke Jr.

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Cooke offers a fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England communities.Winner of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc.'s Charles F. Montgomery PrizeOriginally published in 1996. In Making Furniture in Preindustrial America Edward S. Cooke Jr. offers a fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England communities. Drawing on both documentary and artifactual sources, Cooke explores the interplay among producer, process, and style in demonstrating why and how the social economies of these two seemingly similar towns differed significantly during the late colonial and early national periods. Throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century, Cooke explains, the yeoman town of Newtown relied on native joiners whose work satisfied the expectations of their fellow townspeople. These traditionalists combined craftwork with farming and made relatively plain, conservative furniture. By contrast, the typical joiner in the neighboring gentry town of Woodbury was the immigrant innovator. Born and raised elsewhere in Connecticut and serving a diverse clientele, these craftsmen were free of the cultural constraints that affected their Newtown contemporaries. Relying almost entirely on furnituremaking for their livelihood, they were free to pay greater attention to stylistically sensitive features than to mere function.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-04-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:426 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421436050
Utmärkelser:Winner of Charles F. Montgomery Prize 1996 (United States)

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Möbeldesign inom Kultur

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Edward S. Cooke, Jr. is Charles F. Montgomery Associate Professor of American Decorative Arts at Yale University. He wrote the exhibition catalog for New American Furniture: Second Generation Studio Furnituremakers, edited and contributed to Upholstery in America and Europe from the 17th Century to World War I, and contributed to Furniture by Wendell Castle, Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Conservation by Design, The Ideal Home 1900-1920 and "The Art that is Life": The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920.

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Edward S. Cooke has written an exhaustive and sophisticated interdisciplinary study comparing and contrasting the 'social economy' of furniture and furniture makers in two western Connecticut communities . . . Cooke has combined the social and economic historians research in traditional records with material culture's analysis of artifacts. The synthesis is certainly more than the sum of its parts . . . Thoughtful and challenging.—H. Roger King, History

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List of Tables and Charts Acknowledgments Introduction. The Need for the Artis anal Voice Chapter 1. The Preindustrial Joiner in Western Connecticut, 1760-£820 Chapter 2. The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner Chapter 3. The Joiners of Newtown and Woodbury Chapter 4. SocioeconomiSc tructure in Newtown and Woodbury Chapter 5. Consumer Behavior in Newtown and Woodbury Chapter 6. Workmanship of Habit: The Furniture of Newtown Chapter 7. Workmanship of Competition: The Furniture of Woodbury Conclusion. The Response to Market Capitalism Appendix A. Biographies of Newtown Joiners, 1760-£820 Appendix B. Biographies of Woodbury Joiners, I 760-r 820 Notes Glossary of Furniture Terms Note on Sources and Methods Index