Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture
Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture

Author: Arthur Hayden

Publisher: Lundberg Press

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1409796922

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections

Author: John Walsh

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1997-12-04

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0892364769

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Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty

Chats on Old Furniture
Chats on Old Furniture

Author: Arthur Hayden

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781505492026

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"[...]queens have been applied to various styles of furniture as belonging to their reign. Early Victorian is certainly a more expressive term than early nineteenth century. Cromwellian tables, Queen Anne chairs, or Louis Seize commodes all have an especial meaning as referring to styles more or less prevalent when those personages lived. As there is no record of the makers of most of the old English furniture, and as a piece of furniture cannot be judged as can a picture, the date of manufacture cannot be precisely laid down, hence the vagueness of much of the classification of old furniture. Roughly it may in England be dealt with under the Tudor, the Stuart, and the[...]".