Furniture Treasures, Vol. 1 and 2

by Wallace Nutting

Book Overview

This book will tell you how to collect antique furniture, how to recognize the various styles, how to appreciate their special qualities, how to judge beauty of line and integrity of structure, how to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0025909800
• ISBN13: 9780025909809
• Release Date: October 1928
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 6.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.7" x 8.3" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Classic in the field

If you want to see what collectors of American antique furniture could find in the first half of the 20th century, this is a great book. It contains many, many (black & white) photos of wonderful pieces in all major categories of furniture. Each category is chronologically organized from the Puritan period up to late Federal (nothing really from Neo-classical on however). Note that there is very little data provided for each item - this is really a photographic reference. Even so, for the novice this is a great book because it provides so much variety to view in one place. For the expert it is a great place to see rare and highest quality pieces. No collector of American period furniture should be without this book.