Product Description

This history of oak furniture covers the British Isles and New England, from the Middle Ages through to 1800. It has become a standard work of reference, providing clear classification within the context of any one period, and equipped with a pictorial index for quick and easy identification.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #563701 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 620 pages

Customer Reviews

Absolutely canonical history of oak furniture, UK and USA
This is an excellent book, but more than that it's the _standard_ reference book on oak furniture. Extensively illustrated, it's commonly used as a thesaurus of patterns and styles, so that pieces are often described as "like the illustration on page 555 of Chinnery".

It's mainly about the "oak period" of English furniture, up to the Restoration. Quite unusually it also goes beyond this, describing the less fashionable pieces that remained in oak or ash even into the Georgian period. There's also some interesting comparison with early colonial-period furniture from New England.

It's an expensive book, but it's so good that it really is worth it.