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Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000
Claudia Kinmonth
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Description for Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000
Hardcover.
This major illustrated study investigates farmhouse and cabin furniture from all over the island of Ireland. It discusses the origins and evolution of useful objects, what materials were used and why, and how furniture made for small spaces, often with renewable elements, was innate and expected. Encompassing three centuries, it illuminates a way of life that has almost vanished. It contributes as much to our knowledge of Ireland's cultural history as to its history of furniture. This is a is a substantially different book from Irish Country Furniture, 1700-1950, published by Yale UP in 1993 and reprinted several times. ... Read more
This major illustrated study investigates farmhouse and cabin furniture from all over the island of Ireland. It discusses the origins and evolution of useful objects, what materials were used and why, and how furniture made for small spaces, often with renewable elements, was innate and expected. Encompassing three centuries, it illuminates a way of life that has almost vanished. It contributes as much to our knowledge of Ireland's cultural history as to its history of furniture. This is a is a substantially different book from Irish Country Furniture, 1700-1950, published by Yale UP in 1993 and reprinted several times. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Cork University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781782054054
SKU
V9781782054054
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Claudia Kinmonth
Claudia Kinmonth is Research Curator (Domestic Life), Ulster Folk Museum and a Visiting Research Fellow, Moore Institute National University Galway. She is the author of Irish Rural Interiors in Art (Yale UP).
Reviews for Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000
Claudia Kinmonth's astonishing work of scholarship and preservation records the richness of Irish furniture and furnishings across three centuries - an intimate and powerful expression of domestic life and material culture in a vanishing world;Daniel Carey, MRIA, is Director of the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway and Professor of English in the School of ... Read more