Name/Title
"FURNITURE: AS INTERPRETED BY THE CENTURY FURNITURE COMPANY"Entry/Object ID
2000.33.1.1Description
"FURNITURE: AS INTERPRETED BY THE CENTURY FURNITURE COMPANY"
Color: Blue
"Furniture: As Interpreted by the Century Furniture Company," (Second edition, Grand Rapids: Century Furniture Company, 1927,) 156 pp. A hardcover book without a dustjacket with a light blue cover in darker blue trim at the right corners and down the left side of the front. The single-word title "Furniture" is at the top center in script with the letter "F" highly stylized. Two small paper labels are on the spine, with the word "FURNITURE" at the top and the word "CENTVRY," with the Roman "U", at the bottom. There is, at the beginning of the work, a short foreword, a three-page preface, a description of Grand Rapids as the furniture capital of America, and a explanatory section on furniture periods and styles, including brief surveys of those of the Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Gothic. Longer analyses of the following are: Italian, French, Spanish and Dutch and Flemish renaissance; the Elizabethan, Jacobean, William and Mary and Queen Anne periods in England; the periods of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI or the Quattore, Quinze, and Seize, as well as French Empire in France; the Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Adam Brothers, Sheraton and other English designers in the Georgian period; and the Colonial American period, including a chapter on William Savery and the American Empire, with a separate chapter devoted to Duncan Phyfe. A short description of the Century Funiture Company, a chronology of the aforementioned styles and periods, and a glossary conclude the work. With fading and some cover wear and a loose binding, the artifact is in fair condition.Lexicon
Search Terms
Three-dimensional, Books, Century Furniture Company, Furniture--Styles, Furniture industry and trade, Furniture, Queen Anne, Furniture, Renaissance
