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Bent wood and metal furniture, 1850-1946

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A529

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Type of record: Book

Title: Bent wood and metal furniture, 1850-1946

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A529

Additional creator(s): Ostergard, Derek E (Editor); Alvera, Alessandro (1940-) (Contributor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); American Federation of Arts (Issuing body)

Publisher: University of Washington Press; The American Federation of Arts

Publication city: [Seattle] : New York, N.Y

Date(s): [1987]

Language: English

Size and medium: xvi, 366 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731526

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019934597205181

Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-359) and index.

Before industrialization : bent wood and bent metal in the hands of the craftsman / Derek E. Ostergard -- Michael Thonet and the development of bent-wood furniture : from workshop to factory production / Alessandro Alvera -- The development of the bent-wood furniture industry, 1869-1914 / Graham Dry -- Bent wood production and the Viennese avant-garde : Thonet Brothers and J. and J. Kohn, 1899-1914 / Christian Witt-Dòˆrring -- Furnishing the future : Bent wood and metal furniture, 1925-1946 / Christopher Wilk -- The social and cultural context of bent wood and metal furniture / Robert Keil.

Examines bent wood and metal furniture made between 1850 and 1946.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A529: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front inside cover: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FFW/20.

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