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The maker's hand : American studio furniture, 1940-1990 / Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Gerald W.R. Ward, and Kelly H. L'Ecuyer ; with the assistance of Pat Warner.

by Cooke, Edward S.

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Boston : MFA Publications, a division of the Museum of Fine Arts, c2003.

Furniture -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions

0878466622 (hardcover) :

0878466630 (softcover)

168 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Director's foreword -- Foreword by The Furniture Society -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: defining the field -- Woodworkers: the beginnings of the studio furniture movement -- The challenge of freewheeling artist-craftsmen: tradition and innovation in the 1960s -- Technofetishism: technical virtuosity and exotic woods in the 1970s -- The professionalization of studio furniture: the 1980s -- Afterword -- Makers' biographies -- Select schools and programs in furniture making and woodworking -- Select galleries -- Chronology of select exhibitions.

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