Rather Elegant Than Showy
Subtitle: The Classical Furniture of Isaac Vose
Publisher: David R Godine
Published: May 31, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781567926194
Description: "Isaac Vose was well known in his day among style-conscious Bostonians, his name synonymous with furniture of the highest quality and advanced design. His shop, the "first on Boston Neck," was in a prominent location and served as a familiar landmark in his South End neighborhood. Throughout the 1820s, 1830s, and as late as 1843, some nineteen years after Vose's death, auction advertisements explicitly cited his name as the maker of select furniture, with the association connoting quality and calculated to increase its sale price. This book gathers in one volume the known works of Vose as well as those attributed to him, and it is gorgeously illustrated throughout. The authors hope that Isaac Vose's work will gain recognition for its outstanding contributions to an American vision of classicism, albeit in Boston's more conservative, less "dashy" style."--Publisher.
Notes: Source title: Rather Elegant Than Showy: The Classical Furniture of Isaac Vose