Research Catalog

Title

Chicago furniture : art, craft & industry, 1833-1983 / Sharon Darling.

Author

Darling, Sharon S.

Publication

New York : Chicago Historical Society in association with W.W. Norton, ©1984.

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Details

Description

xi, 416 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

Traces the history of the Chicago furniture industry, and shows examples of chairs, tables, desks, dressers, stools, and cabinets manufactured there.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Geschichte 1833-1983
• Furniture > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century
• Furniture > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century
• Furniture > Illinois > Chicago > History
• Furniture > United States > History
• Furniture
• Möbel
• United States
• Illinois > Chicago
• Chicago, Ill

Genre/Form

• History
• Books.

Note

• "Other Chicago designers and manufacturers": p. 355-381.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 401-406.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0393018180
• 9780393018189

LCCN

83025522

OCLC

• ocm10299105
• 10299105
• SCSB-95750

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library