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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.
Kittinger Furniture is available through several showrooms across the country. Kittinger's primary showroom is located at its factory and corporate offices. Showrooms in Georgia, New Jersey, New York City and Pennsylvania represent and carry Kittinger. In 2012 Kittinger Furniture opened a showroom in Tokyo, Japan, at the Sala Azabu store.
John Jelliff armchair in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. John Jelliff (July 30, 1813 – July 2, 1893) was an American furniture designer and manufacturer, based in Newark, New Jersey during the second half of the 19th century. By the 1850s, John Jelliff & Co. had become the leading furniture manufacturer in New Jersey. [1]
Born in Langenstein, Hesse, Germany, Pabst immigrated to the U.S. in 1849 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he would make his professional career.The excellence of his craftsmanship elevated him above his peers, as did the strongly architectonic (building-like) quality of his furniture designs—often massively scaled, with columns, pilasters, rounded and Gothic arches, bold ...
A William and Mary style cabinet with oyster veneering and parquetry inlays. What later came to be known as the William and Mary style is a furniture design common from 1700 to 1725 in the Netherlands, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland and Kingdom of Ireland, and later in England's American colonies.
Furniture attributed to Day, North Carolina Museum of History. Thomas Day (c. 1801–1861) was an American furniture craftsman and cabinetmaker in Milton , Caswell County , North Carolina. [ 1 ] Born into a free African-American family in Dinwiddie County , Virginia, Day moved to Milton in 1817 and became a highly successful businessman ...
Federal furniture refers to American furniture produced in the federal style period, which lasted from approximately 1789 to 1823 and is itself named after the Federalist Era in American politics (ca. 1788-1800). [1] Notable furniture makers who worked in the federal style included John and Thomas Seymour, Duncan Phyfe and Charles-Honoré Lannuier.
Interior of Antique Furniture & Wooden Sculpture Museum in Milan. A furniture museum is a museum with exhibits relating to the history and art of furniture. This is a list of articles about notable furniture museums. Many other types of museums also host furniture exhibits.