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Duncan Phyfe (1768 – 16 August 1854) [1] was one of nineteenth-century America's leading cabinetmakers.. Rather than create a new furniture style, he interpreted fashionable European trends in a manner so distinguished and particular that he became a major spokesman for Neoclassicism in the United States, influencing a generation of American cabinetmakers.
Four of these Queen Anne chairs are originals and attributed to Savery; four are modern reproductions. William Savery (1721 or 1722 – 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an 18th-century American cabinetmaker noted for his furniture in the Queen Anne and Philadelphia Chippendale styles.
Both the portrait and chair are at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Benjamin Randolph (1721—1791) was an 18th-century American cabinetmaker who made furniture in the Queen Anne and Philadelphia Chippendale styles. [ 1] He made the lap desk on which Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence. [ 2]
Francis Trumble. Congress Voting Independence (ca. 1784-88) by Robert Edge Pine. Francis Trumble was an 18th-century chair and cabinetmaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . Trumble produced a variety of "fine furniture" in the Queen Anne, Chippendale and Federal styles. [1] He also manufactured Windsor chairs that are believed to be the ones ...
Heywood-Wakefield Company. The Heywood-Wakefield Company is an American furniture manufacturer established in 1897. It went on to become a major presence in the US. Its older products are considered collectibles [1][2][3] and have been featured on Antiques Roadshow. [4][5]
Carpenters' Hall, in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the official birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a key meeting place in the early history of the United States. Completed in 1775, [4] the two-story brick meeting hall was built for and still privately owned by the Carpenters' Company of ...
Queen Anne furniture is "somewhat smaller, lighter, and more comfortable than its predecessors," and examples in common use include "curving shapes, the cabriole leg, cushioned seats, wing-back chairs, and practical secretary desk - bookcase pieces." [2] Other elements characterizing the style include pad feet and "an emphasis on line and form ...
Whether from any of these causes or from purely commercial ones, what became part of the Elizabethan furniture style was the top-heavy and overloaded Dutch cabinet and the table with big columnar legs capable of upholding mighty serving dishes, and both covered with Flemish ornament.