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Chicago furniture : art, craft & industry, 1833-1983
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- Creator
- Sharon Darling
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Chicago Historical Society in association with W.W. Norton, [1984]
- ©1984
- Physical Details
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- xi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393018189, 0393018180
- OCLC
- ocm10299105
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406) and index.
- pt. I. Introduction. Frontier furniture makers, 1833-1851 ; Steam-powered manufactories, 1852-1872. -- pt. II. Furniture for "the million," 1873-1917. The dynamics of the industry, 1873-1917 ; Upholstered parlor furniture, 1873-1917 ; Patent furniture, 1873-1917 ; Bedroom furniture, 1873-1917 ; Chairs for all occasions, 1873-1917 ; Commercial furniture, 1873-1917 ; Cabinet wares: plain and fancy, 1873-1917. -- pt. III. Art furniture, 1873-1917. Modern Gothic, 1873-1880 ; Special designs for "the sifted few," 1880-1917 ; Hand-carved furniture and period reproductions, 1880-1917 ; The Arts and Crafts Movement, 1889-1917 ; Mission furniture, 1895-1917 ; A new Prairie Style, 1895-1917. -- pt. IV. Modernism to Mies, 1918-1983. What is modern? 1918-1945 ; The great central market, 1918-1945 ; The postwar years, 1946-1983. -- Epilogue. -- Appendix: Other Chicago designers and manufacturers