Neat Pieces: The Plain-Style Furniture of Nineteenth-Century Georgia

by Atlanta History Center

Neat Pieces is a detailed, extensively illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the "plain style" of furniture made and used by Georgians in the 1800s. Simply designed, solidly constructed of local woods, and usually unadorned, such pieces were used daily by their owners for storage, sleeping, eating, and more. Today, this furniture is read by historians, folklorists, and other experts for clues into a past way of life. It is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820328057
• ISBN13: 9780820328058
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 11.0"