Texas Furniture, Volume Two : : The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880 / / David B. Warren, Lonn Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Lonn,; Warren, David B.,
• MitwirkendeR: Carleton, Don,
• TeilnehmendeR: Carleton, Don.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Focus on American History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas furniture and its makers. After more than a decade of investigation, they published Texas Furniture in 1975, and it quickly became the authoritative reference on this subject. An updated edition, Texas Furniture, Volume One, was issued in the spring of 2012. Texas Furniture, Volume Two presents over 150 additional pieces of furniture that were not included in Volume One, each superbly photographed in color and accompanied by detailed descriptions of the piece’s maker, date, materials, measurements, history, and owner, as well as an analysis by the authors. Taylor and Warren have also written a new introduction for this volume, in which they amplify the story of early Texas furniture. In particular, they compare and contrast the two important traditions of cabinetmaking in Texas, Anglo-American and German, and identify previously unknown artisans. The authors also discuss nineteenth-century Texans’ desire for refinement and gentility in furniture, non-commercial furniture making, and marquetry work. And they pay tribute to the twentieth-century collectors who first recognized the value of locally made Texas furniture and worked to preserve it. A checklist of Texas cabinetmakers, which contains biographical information on approximately nine hundred men who made furniture in Texas, completes the volume.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Furniture of the Frontier: The Surviving Evidence -- 1. Beds, Cribs, and Cradles -- 2. Wardrobes -- 3. Chests of Drawers -- 4. Chairs and Stools -- 5. Sofas, Settees, Benches, and Daybeds -- 6. Tables and Stands -- 7. Desks -- 8. Cupboards -- 9. Safes -- 10. Miscellaneous Objects -- A Checklist of Texas Cabinetmakers -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX