Based in East Hampton, New York, Pritam & Eames is associated with
the finest work in American furniture making since 1981. As the
country's oldest established gallery connected with the American
studio furniture movement, they represent a distinguished group of
artist-craftspeople.
Edward S. Cooke, Jr. is the Charles F. Montgomery Professor
of American Decorative Arts in the Department of the History of Art
at Yale University. He has served as director of the Yale Center
for the Study of American Art and Material Culture since 1992 and
served as the Chair of the department from 2000 to 2006.
Roger Holmes, author and furniture maker, manages a workshop
in Lincoln, NE, where he combines traditional handwork and
contemporary technology. Author of The Woodworker's Companion, he
has been an editor for Fine Woodworking magazine and has written
extensively on furniture and furniture making.
Speaking of Furniture presents insightful interviews between gallery owners Bebe Pritam Johnson and Warren Eames Johnson and 14 master furniture makers they have represented-- all core, second-generation figures in the scantily examined American Studio Furniture movement. Dating from 1991, the transcripts focus on each designer's biography and reasons for entering te field; problems delayed publication, but each interview contains a coda updating the subject's professional views in 2011. Each designer considers whether furniture making is art, prompting one to seek radically new forms and concepts; or a craft, directing one to produce utilitarian objects consistent with prototypical forms. While their viewpoints vary, the subjects selected retain homogeneous characteristics, lacking much diversity of race, gender, or geography... This book provides excellent insight into a little-explored field.--A.R Michelson "CHOICE "
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