Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 316
re. It is always fine, and does not have a finishingstrip on the outside. We have no record of the first designer of the day-bed. The style is beingrevived at present. It is certainly far better than the Empire lounge,to which we bid good-bye with pleasure. It no more needs a back thandoes a bed.… … THE simple day-bed above is so nearly like that on the opposite pagethat its insertion here is, in part, to show the method of lacing, or trussingthe canvas. This couch is the property of the Metropolitan Museum.Date: 1690-1710. Among the woods used in early American furniture the most…
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