Early New England Woodworking Exhibition in Deerfield, MA

"Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture", with a focus on the materials, tools, and methods of the craft, at the Flynt Center of Early American Life, Old Deerfield, MA, May, 2008 through 2013.


From the exhibition description:

Drawing on 60 examples of furniture from Historic Deerfield's permanent collection--including masterworks by Duncan Phyfe, Samuel McIntyre, and others -- this new exhibition offers an accesible and imaginative format for audiences to learn about the raw materials, tools, hand skills, designs and ornamental techniques that woodworkers used between 1675 and 1840. A wide array of furniture forms from tables and chairs to closk and looking glasses have been assembled by Curator of Furniture Joshua Lane using innovative "exploded view" display techniques and before and after views of conservation treatments.

For more information, see the museum website.

This exhibition was reviewed in the New York Times for June 13, 2008, here.

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