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- catalog abstract ""Plain or fancy, natural or painted, American wicker represents a significant and distinctive achievement in the international arena of the decorative arts. The fascinating history of American woven furnishings, from the mid-nineteenth century to the Great Depression, is offered in this volume, published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C." "Although basketweave furniture is "as old as history itself" and indigenous to many parts of the world, in the United States it blossomed into an astoundingly rich and meaningful art form. The story of American wicker is like the saga of America, for the design, manufacture, use, and symbolism of woven furniture directly reflect the nation's changing social, cultural, and aesthetic values during its most transformative era." "In 1620 the first Pilgrim born on North American shores was rocked aboard the Mayflower in a willow cradle, but the real birth and flowering of the American wicker industry occurred during the nineteenth century when the freewheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the times brought forth important technological innovations and set the scene for the intense commercial rivalry of two principal manufacturers - the Massachusetts-based Wakefield Rattan Company and Heywood Brothers and Company - who, singularly and in merger, dominated the industry well into the early decades of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b4642794.
- catalog contributor b4642795.
- catalog contributor b4642796.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description ""Plain or fancy, natural or painted, American wicker represents a significant and distinctive achievement in the international arena of the decorative arts. The fascinating history of American woven furnishings, from the mid-nineteenth century to the Great Depression, is offered in this volume, published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C." "Although basketweave furniture is "as old as history itself" and indigenous to many parts of the world, in the United States it blossomed into an astoundingly rich and meaningful art form. The story of American wicker is like the saga of America, for the design, manufacture, use, and symbolism of woven furniture directly reflect the nation's changing social, cultural, and aesthetic values during its most transformative era." "In 1620 the first Pilgrim born on North American shores was rocked aboard the Mayflower in a willow cradle, but the real birth and flowering of the American wicker industry occurred during the nineteenth century when the freewheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the times brought forth important technological innovations and set the scene for the intense commercial rivalry of two principal manufacturers - the Massachusetts-based Wakefield Rattan Company and Heywood Brothers and Company - who, singularly and in merger, dominated the industry well into the early decades of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 170) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Wicker in History -- The Emergence of an American Industry, 1840-1873 -- The Great Rivals: Wakefield Rattan Company and Heywood Brothers and Company, 1874-1897 -- Victorian Wicker and the American Home, 1876-1900 -- The Search for New Materials, Styles, and Meanings in the Progressive Era, 1893-1914 -- Novel Uses, Technologies, and Design in the Modern Age, 1915-1930 -- Epilogue: Wicker in the 1930s.".
- catalog extent "175 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "American Wicker.".
- catalog identifier "0847816702".
- catalog identifier "0847817032 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "American Wicker.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution ; New York : Rizzoli,".
- catalog relation "American Wicker.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "749.213/09/034 20".
- catalog subject "NK2712.7 .A32 1993".
- catalog subject "Wicker furniture United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Wicker furniture United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Wicker in History -- The Emergence of an American Industry, 1840-1873 -- The Great Rivals: Wakefield Rattan Company and Heywood Brothers and Company, 1874-1897 -- Victorian Wicker and the American Home, 1876-1900 -- The Search for New Materials, Styles, and Meanings in the Progressive Era, 1893-1914 -- Novel Uses, Technologies, and Design in the Modern Age, 1915-1930 -- Epilogue: Wicker in the 1930s.".
- catalog title "American wicker : woven furniture from 1850 to 1930 / Jeremy Adamson ; principal photography by Kit Latham.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".