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Exhibition

The Calculated Curve: Eighteenth-Century American Furniture

Ongoing

The 2024 reinstallation of The Met’s Wang Galleries highlights American furniture (1720–1770), showcasing key collections and its design, materials, and form.

Essay

The Golden Age of French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

October 1, 2003

By Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide

French furniture of this period was the collaborative effort of various artists and craftsmen who worked according to strictly enforced guild regulations.

Essay

English Ornament Prints and Furniture Books in Eighteenth-Century America

October 1, 2003, revised April 1, 2018

By Peter M. Kenny and Morrison H. Heckscher

The books ran the gamut from princely folio size to pocket handbook, but most were modest volumes intended to guide tradesmen in constructing fashionable furniture.

Essay

American Furniture, 1620–1730: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles

March 1, 2010

By Nicholas C. Vincent

Furniture in the early Baroque, or William and Mary, style broke away from the solid, horizontal massing and rectilinear outlines of the preceding era.

Essay

Shaker Furniture

March 1, 2012

By Nicholas C. Vincent

Shaker communities were largely self-sufficient: in their attempt to separate themselves from the outside world and to create a heaven-on-earth, members grew their own food, constructed their own buildings, and manufactured their own tools and household furnishings.

Essay

French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century: Seat Furniture

October 1, 2003

By Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide

Since only the menuisier was obliged to sign his work, the names of the other craftsmen are, unfortunately, rarely known.

Essay

French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century: Case Furniture

October 1, 2003

By Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide

One of the most gifted and successful cabinetmakers of the second half of the eighteenth century, Riesener was the favorite of Queen Marie Antoinette.

Publication

American Japanned Furniture

As European and American interest in Asian art grew in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, Western consumers coveted expensive lacquerware for its gloss, durability, and rich ornament. This edition of the Bulletin examines the evolving discourse surrounding japanned furniture, an artform cultivated by European and North American tradesmen that was inspired by luxury lacquer items from China and Japan. Using resin from native conifers or imported sandarac, copal, and shellac, they imitated the medium and the motifs used in traditional lacquer objects. Featuring more than a dozen examples of japanned chests, tables, and mirrors, American Japanned Furniture discusses the works’ patronage and aesthetic origins while also uncovering a new artistic attribution to Thomas Johnston for key examples in The Met’s Collection– a discovery which not only sheds new light on Johnston’s work, but also helps shape a new understanding of the Museum’s japanned furniture.

Press Release

Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age

editorial

New Drawings on View in Chippendale's Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker

October 15, 2018

By Femke Speelberg

Associate Curator Femke Speelberg invites readers to view the new rotation of furniture drawings recently installed in The Met's exhibition celebrating Thomas Chippendale's three hundredth birthday.