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Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850

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Winner of the SPNEA/Historic New England Book Prize (2010)

Through furniture, this exhibition catalogue will explore the cultural identity of slightly-studied region of 18th and 19th century New England: southeastern Massachusetts, an area that stretches from just south of Boston to Providence, east to the end of Cap Cod, and includes the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. The era between 1710 and 1850 used to be marked by enormous changes within the landscape, population, and economy of this area, in addition to within the activities of furniture craftsmen and the purchasing patterns of local residents. Three themes are paramount here:

1. Regionalism within the character of furniture made within the area and the forces that shaped that identity.
2. Fashion, changing tastes and the growing affluence of local residents through the years.
3. Shop practices and the evolving craft practices of furniture makers during the recreation of two stores, the agricultural handcraft tradition of Samuel Wing of Sandwich in 1800 and the mechanized operation of a New Bedford or Fall River chair factory in 1850.

The exhibition will include approximately 75 pieces of furniture from private and institutional collections, tools and equipment from the Samuel Wing cabinet shop (now owned by Sturbridge Village), and selected household furnishings depicting interiors in southeastern Massachusetts right through the 18th and 19th centuries.

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