A History of English Furniture by Percy Macquoid, with plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe and numerous illustrations selected and arranged by the author. The main aim of this volume is to talk about the history, development and evolution of English furniture and the foreign influences that contributed to them. The subject has been divided into four periods. The first, dating from 1500 to 1600, comprising furniture that can be attributed to the Renaissance and its evolution from the Gothic, termed as 'The Age of Oak'. The second, from 1660 to 1720, where the change is varied by the Restoration and Dutch influence, followed by an English spirit, called 'The Age of Walnut'. The third period, lasting from 1720 to 11770, with French influences, called 'The Age of Mahogany'; and the fourth, from1770 to 1820; inspired by a combination of all things classical, combined with a curiously unbalanced taste, described as 'The Composite Age'. The colour plates depict: Red Lacquer Cabinet; Inlaid Commode; Mahogany Escritoire; Mahogany and Satin-Wood Sideboard; Gilt Table with Marble Top; Inlaid Folding Card-Table; Painted Chair; Satin-wood Chair; Inlaid Mahogany Pole-screen; Amboyna-Wood Writing-cabinet; Mahogany and Satin-wood Clothes-press; Satin-wood Commode; Painted Sideboard-commode; Painted Satin-wood Writing-cabinet; Satin-wood Tea-caddy; Circular Knife-case; Painted Satin-wood Chair; Painted Chair; Satin-wood Work-table; Satin-wood Dressing-table; Painted Commode. The other Illustrations depict: Adam; Amboyna-wood; Badminton; Barometer-cases; Beds; Beechwood; Bird-cage; Black-wood; Blenheim; Book-cases; Bossi Cement; Bracket Clocks; Burghley; Cabinets; Candle-stands; Candlesticks; Cartel Clocks; Chairs; Chandeliers; Chests; Chests of Drawers; Cheval Glasses; China-cases; Chinese Art; Chippendale; Cipriani; Clock-cases; Clothes-presses; Lady Mary Coke; Commode Chest of Drawers; Commodes; Country-houses; Cupboards; Decker; Mrs. Delany; Robert Dossie; Dressers; Dressing-tables; Drinking-tables; Drizzling; Edwards and Darley; Empire Style; Escritoires; Flaxman; Furniture in Farmhouses; Madame Genlis; Gentlemen's Secretary; Robert Gillow; Glass Chandeliers; Gouthiere; Haig and Chippendale; Sir William Hamilton; Hardwicke; Harewood House; Hepplewhite; Houghton; Ince and Mayhew; Japanning; Angelica Kauffmann; 'Kidney'-tables; Knife-cases; Lacquer Beds, Chairs, China-cases, Commodes, Furniture, Tables; Lamps; Library Furniture; Sir Horace Mann; Simon Martin; Medicine-cupboards; Metal-work; Mirrors; Neilson; Nostell Priory; Osterley; Parfilage; Parfileuses; Parisot; Pear-Wood; Pedestal Sideboards; Pedestals; Pembroke Tables; Pergolesi; Piranesi; Plate-glass; Powders and Cometics; William Salmon; Satin-wood; Seddon; Sequoia; Settees; Shaving-tables; Thomas Shearer;Sheraton; Sideboards; Side-tables; Snakewood; Soane Museum; Sofas; Stretchers for Chairs; Taper-legs; Tapestry; Tea-caddies, gardens; Torcheres; Tub-chairs; Wall-lights; Walpole; Wardrobes; Wedgwood; Wheel-pattern; Window-seats; Work-tables; Writing-cabinets; Vases; Zebra-wood; Zuccharelli; Zucchi.
MacQuoid, Percy Thomas (1852-1925), theatrical designer
A book compromising of the architectural works of the architectural company McKim, Mead & White, with a collection of drawings including plans, sections, elevations, perspectives and details of each building, to scale. All drawings are highly detailed. Buildings included are: Casino at New Port, Rhode Island; Ross Winans Residence, Baltimore, M.D.; C.A. Whittier Residence, Boston, Mass.; St. Paul's Church, Stockbridge, Mass.; Charles L. Tiffany Residence, New York City; Casino at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island; Henry Villard Residence, New York City; Residence of Charles J. Osborn, Mamaroneck, New York City; Residence of Mrs. William Edgar, Newport, R.I.; Residence of Charles J. Osborn, Mamaroneck, N.Y.; David Glasgow Farragut Monument, New York City; Peter Cooper Monument, New York; H.A.C. Taylor Residence, Newport, R.I.; John F. Andrews Residence, Boston, Mass.; Russell & Erwin Building, New Britain, Conn,; Algonquin Club, Boston, Mass.; Johnston Gates Main Entrance, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Entrances to Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City; New York Life Insurance Company Building, Kansas City, Mo.; St. Peter's Church, Morristown, N.J.; Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Pa.; Century Club, New York City; Madison Square Garden, New York City; E.D. Morgan Residence, Newport, R.I.; The Washington Arch, New York City; Agricultural Building, Chicago World's Fair; New York State Building, World's Fair, Chicago, Ill.; Walker Art gallery, Brunswick, Me.; Walker Art Gallery, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.; Columbia University, New York City; Judson Memorial Church, Washington Square, New York City; Metropolitan Club, New York City; New York Herald Building, New York City; The Bowery Savings Bank, New York City; Elliot F. Shepard Residence, Scarborough, New York City; Garden City Hotel, Garden City, L.I.; Battle Monument, West Point, New York City; New York University, New York City; Robert W. Cumming Residence, Newark, N.J.; H.A.C. Taylor Residence, New York City; Frederick W. Vanderbilt Residence, Hyde Park, New York City; Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; New York Life Insurance Co. New York City; Thomas Nelson Page Residence, Washington, D.C.; Houses on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass.; George A. Nickerson Residence, Boston, Mass.; Sherry's Hotel, New York City.
McKim, Mead and White
A book compromising of the architectural works of the architectural company McKim, Mead & White, with a collection of drawings including plans, sections, elevations, perspectives and details of each building, to scale. All drawings are highly detailed. Buildings included are: Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass.; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA,; Casino of John Jacob Astor, Rhinebeck, New York City; The Cullum Memorial, West Point, New York City; Houses for James J. Godwin, New York City; Houses for H.A.C. Taylor, New York City; Radcliffe College Gymnasium, Cambridge, Mass.; State Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich.; The University Club, New York City; The Boston Symphony Music Hall, Boston, Mass.; WM. C. Whitney Residence, New York City; A. A. Pope Residence, Farmington, Conn.; Estate of E.D. Morgan, Wheatley Hills, L.I.; Memorial Gateways, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Henry W. Poor Residence, New York City; Cornell University, Medical School, New York City; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Philip Rollins Residence, New York City; Robert G. Shaw Memorial, Boston, Mass; "Harbor Hill" C.H. Mackay Residence, Roslyn , L.I.; Oelrichs Residence, Newport, R.I.; Alterations to White House, Washington, D.C.; Joseph Pulitzer Residence, New York City; Rhode Island State Capitol, Providence, R.I.; C.D. Gibson Residence, New York City; St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City; New York Public Library Branches.
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