Boston Furniture Makers 19th Century

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Boston furniture makers 19th century.

In 1690 the handicrafts guild of that city had registered more than sixty furniture makers and over forty upholsterers. May 14 2020 original. The story of boston furniture craftsmen is not necessarily a sad tale of artisan declension against an incoming tide of mass produced furniture. The 19th century brought industry quicker and more diverse trade factory made furniture and the arts and crafts.

Boston architectural college lobby. She gives the names also of furniture makers in salem charlestown and newbury massachusetts and eight in maine. I am a furniture maker i love to make things and i am grateful that this is my job. By 1830 the city boasted more than 61 000 residents a figure that would almost triple to just under 178 000 by 1860.

Miss singleton gives the names of about forty members of the craft who were at work in boston between 1635 and 1700. A trio of victorian era favorites now highly collectible. Throughout the 19th century many different furniture styles came in and out of vogue. Books and products mentioned in oldhouseonline stories are chosen by our editors.

As america became more industrialized furniture reflected the new technologies of the times. Furniture styles of the 19th century. The lively network of relationships documented by struck marks should not obscure the fact that the boston area is especially notable for the number of makers struck marks that survive also evident in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture of the hudson river valley and the north shore of massachusetts. It was the century of revival furniture styles in the united states england and europe.

And that s just in the 18th century when boston buzzed with furniture makers.