Name/Title
The Cabinet-makers of AmericaEntry/Object ID
2025.110.1Description
Buried in elusive records - account books, diaries, letters, histories - is the story of the lives and works of the cabinetmakers of America. Over many years Ethel Hall Bjerkoe (pronounced
"Bee-air-co") has studied, traveled, and searched and has finally gathered together their story. Here it is, collected for the first time in one volume.
Mrs. Bjerkoe first traces the history of cabinetmakers in America in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. She brings out such facts as when and where the earliest furniture was made in the New World, what it was, and how the development of cabinetmaking has had a direct relationship to the culture and needs of various groups. This survey of cabinetmaking as it developed in America is a clear and illuminating introduction to the biographical check list that follows it.
Through exhaustive research the author has uncovered facts about hundreds of cabinetmakers - personal data, characteristic features of their craft, where they were located, and where their work may be seen today.
Alphabetically arranged and carefully documented, these biographies contain a great deal of fresh material and bring together an exhaustive file on these men.
Mrs. Bjerkoe concludes the book with a glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography.Create Date
May 28, 2025
