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Article: Furniture close up: Adam Bowett salutes the detailed scholarship of the Metropolitan Museum's latest catalogue of its American furniture, a monument to the connoisseurship of 20th-century collectors.(American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)(Book review)
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- May 1, 2009
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North American museum collection catalogues are habitually thorough, detailed, meticulously researched and beautifully produced, and the latest offering, on early American furniture in the Metropolitan Museum, is no exception. Frances Safford's book is the first in a chronological series of three catalogues covering the Met's collection; the second volume, on the 'Queen Anne' and 'Chippendale' periods, was published in 1985, and the third, on the Federal period, has yet to appear. This volume has been many years in preparation, and it aims to be definitive; indeed, Morrison Heckscher, the Chairman of the Met's American Wing and a noted furniture historian himself, states ...