Posts Tagged ‘mahogany’
Annual Event – Currier Museum – Manchester NH – Sept 22nd
Every year the Furniture Masters have a big gala party – this year we are in Manchester at the Currier Museum, which has a fabulous collection of White Mountains art (think Cole and Bierstadt) as well as a contemporary side that stands up well to many larger, more well known museums. How about a photo of…
Read MoreThomas Jefferson’s chairs
This chair was probably made at Monticello – by Thomas Jefferson’s joiner and slave, John Hemings. Whether TJ himself ever sat on it is up for discussion. In the collection of Colonial Williamsburg, it is an example of a chair with less finesse than those made in large urban centers, but with a bit more…
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