Furniture in the Southern Style: 27 Shop Drawings of Furniture
from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts "The drawings
from MESDA's collection satisfy my eye in capturing the kind of
structure, art and honesty I have seen in 18th-century
furniture." — Mack S. Headley, Jr. Early American furniture has
been widely studied, but through a narrow lens. Typical museum
pieces seen today were not found in typical homes, and there is
a vast amount of distinctive furniture from the southern region
of early 18th- and 19th-century America that has been largely
ignored. Furniture in the Southern Style is the first book of
measured drawings to present details of this vernacular
furniture, which draws on a wide variety of influences that
combine to make forms that are uniquely Southern and typically
American. No serious study of 18th- and 19th-century American
furniture would be complete without the in-depth examination of
work produced in the South that this book provides. Furniture in
the Southern Style - In this