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Antique Furniture of Quebec: Four Centuries of Furniture-Making

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Antique Furniture of Québec brings together hundreds of sumptuous full-colour photographs illustrating each and every phase in the history of Québec furniture and an authoritative text written by Michel Lessard describing and analysing that history. The result is a book that may be both a beautiful object and an unparalleled resource.

Lessard emphasizes the cosmopolitan and eclectic nature of Québec society and its openness to out of doors influences. He draws upon both textual and photographic sources to demonstrate that Quebeckers, from the first years of settlement to the present time, have adopted craft and design ideas from out of the country. The three cultures that have historically shaped Québec society, that of France, Great Britain, and the US, have naturally been the most powerful influences. Lessard traces their effect at the same time as, at the same time, demonstrating the continuously original and creative response to these influences by Québec designers, artists, and craftspeople.

It’s all in these pages: from the ornate and continuously heavy furniture of eighteenth century France to the primitive, Shaker-influenced pine furniture of rural Québec, to William Morris and Art Deco and, in any case, the Modern era.

Of particular interest is the series of homes that the writer has tracked down, each and every typical of a particular era and each and every preserved with furnishings appropriate to the era in place. By this and other means, Michel Lessard masterfully combines an appreciation of the historical and social context in which furniture is made and used with a thorough understanding of the craft and business of furniture-making.

“Furniture,” writes Michel Lessard, “is an open book containing a multitude of stories.” This lavish and authoritative book is certain to continue telling its stories for future years.

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