{"product_id":"making-furniture-in-preindustrial-america-the-social-economy-of-newtown-and-woodbury-connecticut-paperback","title":"Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward S. Cooke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1996. In \u003cem\u003eMaking Furniture in Preindustrial America\u003c\/em\u003e Edward S. Cooke Jr. offers a fresh and appealing cross-disciplinary study of the furnituremakers, social structure, household possessions, and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighboring New England communities. Drawing on both documentary and artifactual sources, Cooke explores the interplay among producer, process, and style in demonstrating why and how the social economies of these two seemingly similar towns differed significantly during the late colonial and early national periods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the latter half of the eighteenth century, Cooke explains, the yeoman town of Newtown relied on native joiners whose work satisfied the expectations of their fellow townspeople. These traditionalists combined craftwork with farming and made relatively plain, conservative furniture. By contrast, the typical joiner in the neighboring gentry town of Woodbury was the immigrant innovator. Born and raised elsewhere in Connecticut and serving a diverse clientele, these craftsmen were free of the cultural constraints that affected their Newtown contemporaries. Relying almost entirely on furnituremaking for their livelihood, they were free to pay greater attention to stylistically sensitive features than to mere function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward S. Cooke, Jr. \u003c\/b\u003eis Charles F. Montgomery Associate Professor of American Decorative Arts at Yale University. He wrote the exhibition catalog for \u003ci\u003eNew American Furniture: Second Generation Studio Furnituremakers\u003c\/i\u003e, edited and contributed to \u003ci\u003eUpholstery in America and Europe from the 17th Century to World War I, \u003c\/i\u003e and contributed to \u003ci\u003eFurniture by Wendell Castle, Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Conservation by Design, The Ideal Home 1900-1920\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\"The Art that is Life\" The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 314\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53105872372028,"sku":"9781421436050","price":138.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/7265\/1324\/files\/T4NfNNb1wJ9781421436050.webp?v=1780548114","url":"https:\/\/barginbooks.co\/products\/making-furniture-in-preindustrial-america-the-social-economy-of-newtown-and-woodbury-connecticut-paperback","provider":"Books Fare ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}