Boston’s furniture production was part of a regional and Atlantic World economy. To understand the city’s craft community and its evolution, we must focus on three major themes. O ne of the challenges for scholars studying American furniture is to understand why Boston became a center for production and how conditions of design and fabrication changed. Boston and Its Furnituremakers, 1650–1860.Davenport: Furniture Manufacturing in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1850–1900 Boston Furnituremakers and the New Social Media, 1830–1860 Framing the Interior: The Entrepreneurial Career of John Doggett

Classical Excellence in Boston: The Furniture of Isaac Vose, 1789–1825 Benjamin Bass and Boston Sideboards: A Question of Attribution Reflecting on Forty Years of Studying Boston Late Classical Furniture “The Best Workman in the Shop”: Cabinetmaker William Munroe of Concord Windsor Furniture Making in Boston: A Late but Innovative Center of the Craft “Such ruins were never seen in America”: The Looting of Thomas Hutchinson’s House at the Time of the Stamp Act Riots A Scotsman, Thomas Chippendale, and the Green Dragon Tavern Boston or New York? Revisiting the Apthorp-Family and Related Sets of Queen Anne Chairs Tara Hingston Cederholm & Christine Palmer Thomson “Tortoiseshell & Gold”: Robert Davis and the Art of Japanning in Eighteenth-Century Boston “Newest Fashion” Case Furniture in Boston, 1690–1725: A Transatlantic View

Boston and Its Furnituremakers, 1650–1860

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