Antique Chippendale Furniture Rococo Style 1745-1765 / Scarce In-Depth Book

Description

420 superb black-and-white photographs with identifying captions highlight this rare out-of-print book which provides a pictorial survey of Chippendale furniture produced between 1745-1765.  The book also covers Chippendale’s contemporaries who produced furniture in the Rococo style.
CHIPPENDALE FURNITURE 1745-1765: THE WORK OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES IN THE ROCOCO TASTE – Vile, Cobb, Longlois, Channon, Hallett, Ince and Mayhew, Lock, Johnson, and Others
by Anthony Coleridge, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., NY, 1968.
“This book covers the development and period of predominance of the English Rococo Style in furniture, exemplified by the first and longest part of Thomas Chippendale’s career, up to the time when rococo was ousted by neo-classicism.  [The author] discusses Chippendale’s career, his clients and his design book,
The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director
, in its three editions.  He quotes in detail important newly discovered documents, accounts and advertisements, some for the first time.  He also deals with the careers of Chippendale’s most serious rivals – Vile, Cobb, Hallett, Pierre Langlois, the celebrated French emigrant specialist
marqueteur
, and John Channon, the important newly discovered cabinet maker, who specialized in the production of case-furniture, finely mounted in ormulu and inlaid with brass and tortoiseshell.  Another chapter is devoted to the cabinet-makers and designers,, such as Vardy, Lock, Ince and Mayhew, Johnson, Linnel, Manwaring and others, whose published furniture designs, together with those of Chippendale, can perhaps be called the blue-prints of English Rococo furniture style.  Finally the careers and
oeuvres
of many of the lesser cabinet-makers are discussed – some for the first time in book form.”  The profuse black-and-white photographs, identifying captions, and in-depth narrative combine to make this rare text an invaluable resource reference for the connoisseur of antique furniture.
8.8” x 11.2” hardback with dust cover in very good condition .  Approximately 400 pages.
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