Antique furniture in Suffield, Connecticut, 1670-1835

New furniture was the first consumer durable to be successfully diffused to a mass (middle- and working-class) market in Britain. This chapter charts how a small number of furnitur...

This chapter explores the furniture music of French composer Erik Satie (1866–1925). Satie's pieces of furniture music are each fundamentally based on a short musical fragment, to ...

The textbook discusses the forms and design features of various styles of furniture, design principles and techniques of architectural and artistic solutions, materials of modern f...

A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays performed in private non-playhouse settings between 1560 and 1670.Capturing a lively period of performance, this v...

In this classic book, Norah Waugh explores the changing shapes of women’s dress from the 1500s to the 1920s. Simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whalebone and steel, while...

In 1927 with Nancy Cook at the helm, the three friends (plus Caroline O'Day as a partner) opened a small furniture factory on site, and hired several skilled wood workmen (NYC im...