Vintage 1970s | CABINET MAKERS AND FURNITURE DESIGNs by Hugh Honour

First American edition From the inside flap: his book, the first in a series of three books by Hugh Honour, consists of fifty studies of outstanding makers and designers of furniture - French, English, American, Italian, Dutch, German and Scandinavian - from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is intended not only for collectors and connoisseurs, but also for those generally interested in the arts of the West and for all who have wondered what personalities lurk behind such names as Boulle, Chippendale, Sheraton, Duncan Phyfe and C. R. Mackintosh. Hugh Honour has been able to show the astonishingly wide range of people who have made contributions to the development of furniture design; they include simple artisans, architects, sculptors, businessmen, art collectors, antiquaries, a soldier and a Baptist minister, many of whom emerge from contemporary documents as living human personalities<br><br>Condition near Fine