Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin And His Contemporaries, 1750-1800:

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Connecticut Valley Furniture offers the primary-ever systematic framework for classifying eighteenth-century Connecticut case furniture–high chests, dressing tables, desks, bureaus, chests-on-chests. Just about 2 hundred illustrated entries present the findings of the Hartford Case Furniture Look at, an extensive field Look at of over five hundred regional examples conducted over fourteen years by independent furniture scholars Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman and furniture consultant and restorer Robert Lionetti.

The book defines four major style centers emanating from the towns of Wethersfield, East Windsor, and Colchester, Connecticut, as well the Springfield-Northampton region of Massachusetts. Over half of the illustrations feature unpublished or little-known furniture pieces found out in private or small institutional collections, along with the peculiar holdings of the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and other major collections.

Complementing the text are period maps, an illustrated word list, biographies of decided on cabinetmakers, and 6 interpretive essays.

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