Three centuries of Connecticut furniture, 1635-1935

The Middle Ages were marked by dramatic social, economic, political, and religious changes. Diverse regional and local conditions, and varied social classes - including peasant, ar...

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 ...

Tommy Simpson almost singlehandedly changed the direction of the Studio Furniture field. Trained as an artist at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Tommy exhibited at ...

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...

After accepting an excellent offer from MGM in 1933, Selznick fostered a relationship with MGM composer Herbert Stothart. As with Steiner at RKO, Selznick’s penchant for longer sco...

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...