|
|||||||
|
J. Garland Warren J. Garland Warren was the quintessential good ole boy, a quiet man who valued family, friends, faith and quite frankly was simply known as the man with the best burger in town. Warren is one of the most successful businessmen to ever put down roots in San Marcos, TX, but you’d never know it unless someone told you. Most days, you could find Warren in his Centerpoint Station store with his [...] Click here to continue reading. Collection of Joanne and Jeffrey Klein Collectors Joanne and Jeffrey Klein enjoy the eclectic mix of American folk art, painted furniture and modern sculpture and paintings. They love the juxtaposition of modern with traditional ranging from symbolism to widely varying textured painted and weathered surfaces. Their appreciation of form, color and texture is exhibited in their collection of exceptional painted furniture, weathervanes, redware pottery, hooked rugs and wood carvings. Information courtesy of Keno Auctions, January 2013. Culturally Diverse Clothing Storage, Or, A Wardrobe by Any Other Name In the melting pot that was early America, closet space, at least as we know it, was not common. Thus, a wide variety of furniture forms were available for clothing and linen storage. These forms include the basic blanket chest as well as the chest of drawers. A step up from the chest of drawers was the linen or clothes press, which was [...] Click here to continue reading. Bent Family Collection Provenance Note Designed and furnished in the Mediterranean Revival Style, Quattro Venti is the last great private residence in Annisquam Village, a small fishing hamlet near Gloucester, Massachusetts. Quincy Bent, vice president in charge of production at Bethlehem Steel at the turn of the last century, built the summer retreat around 1912. His forebears purchased quarries in West Gloucester in 1820 and originally used the property, situated on the tip of [...] Click here to continue reading. Preciosa Meaning precious or beautiful in the Spanish and Portuguese languages. It may refer to the subject of an 1821 play, Preziosa, by the German author Pius Alexander Wolff, with overture and music by Carl Maria von Weber. The title and subject of the play is taken from a 1613 novel of the same name by Cervantes. In involves Prezoisa, the beautiful daughter of a gypsy chief who falls in love with the [...] Click here to continue reading. Rorimer Brooks Company The Rorimer Brooks Studio of Cleveland, Ohio was one of the first American firms to design and execute entire residential and commercial interiors. The company was founded by Louis Rorimer in 1896 as Rohrheimer Design. In 1917 he purchased a competitor, the Brooks Household Arts Co. from its owner, retiring Edward Brooks, to create the largest interior design firm of its time west of New York City. Louis Rorimer was the [...] Click here to continue reading. Joel Pratt, Jr. “The turner Joel Pratt, Jr. (1789-1868), of Sterling, Massachusetts, was producing 8,000 chairs per year at the time of the 1820 census,” according to American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940 by William C. Ketchum, Jr. “He remained active into the 1840s, making arrow-back side chairs and armchairs, Boston rockers, and half-spindle fancy chairs.” A printed paper label used by Pratt reads, “Warranted / Chairs / Made And Sold By / Joel [...] Click here to continue reading. Jacob Smith Jacob Smith was a well-known New York City turner and cabinetmaker who was active circa 1787 to 1812. He worked at 13 Beekman Street. Source: American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940 by William C. Ketchum, Jr. J.K. Hatch Little is known about the maker J.K. Hatch. American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640 to 1940 mentions a Hitchcock-type, decorated, half-spindle, plank-bottom side chair, probably from Connecticut, circa 1840 to 1870, having a printed paper label, “J.K. Hatch / Warranted.” Snow Hill Society Snow Hill Society, an offshoot of Ephrata, was a pious community of Seventh Day Baptists who began meeting in the second half of the 18th century. Members of the Schneeberger (Snowberger) family were devoted followers. In 1798, when the group determined to officially establish a communal component and have its own regular house of worship, the Snowbergers provided space and formally arranged for their land, Snow Hill, to be given to [...] Click here to continue reading. |
|||||||
|
Copyright p4A.com, ltd. & Internet Antique Gazette - 2024 - All Rights Reserved |
|||||||
