Furniture of the New Zealand colonial era : an illustrated history, 1830-1900
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Furniture of the New Zealand colonial era : an illustrated history, 1830-1900
Classmark: Bedford Collection B466
Creator(s): Cottrell, William (1956-)
Additional creator(s): Clark, Helen (1950-) (Writer of foreword); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Reed
Publication city: [Auckland N.Z.]
Date(s): [2006]
Language: English
Size and medium: 591 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730920
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019918077505181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 577-581) and index.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Reference and Anthology, 2007
Montana New Zealand Book Awards, NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction, 2007
Early European settlement -- Furnishing the colony -- New Zealand timbers -- New Zealand's cabinetmakers.
Foreword / Rt Hon Helen Clark, Prime Minister -- Measurements and credit abbreviations -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- EARLY EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT. Ch. 2. The first settlers -- Ch. 3. Immigration -- Ch. 4. Making a home in the new land -- Ch. 5. Ethnic influences -- Ch. 6. 'Nothing more to wish for'? -- FURNISHING THE COLONY. Ch. 7. Campaign and patent furniture -- Ch. 8. Imported furnishings -- Ch. 9. The contents of a colonial house -- Ch. 10. Musical instruments -- Ch. 11. Improvements in living standards -- Ch. 12. Domestic work -- NEW ZEALAND TIMBERS. Ch. 13. The search for spars -- Ch. 14. Recording New Zealand's timbers -- Ch. 15. The commercialisation of New Zealand's timbers -- NEW ZEALAND'S CABINETMAKERS. Ch. 16. The beginnings of cabinetmaking -- Ch. 17. The development of the industry -- Ch. 18. Specialisation and related trades -- Ch. 19. The growth of the large furnishing business -- Ch. 20. Design influences and fashions -- Ch. 21. Tools and machinery -- Ch. 22. Fixings and hardware
-- Ch. 23. Finishes and veneers -- Ch. 24. Exhibitions -- APPENDIX. Cabinetmakers and associated trades.
This book provides a definitive account of the furniture and interiors of nineteenth-century New Zealand, and of the cabinetmaking industry throughout that period.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B466: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FFS/44.
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