Just as the originalNeat Piecesstimulated interest in and awareness of Georgia's plain-style furniture, this new volume should provide renewed energy to this important area of study."-Ashley Callahan, Curator, Henry D. Most importantly, color photographs are included, better documenting the remarkable surfaces and decorations present on the furniture carefully selected for inclusion in this publication. The new foreword by Deanne Levison provides an informative summary of the research leading up to the original publication and the influence it had on subsequent projects. "This edition ofNeat Piecesmakes the seminal research it presents available to a new generation of scholars and collectors. Features: -126 exemplary pieces of furniture (including chairs, tables, huntboards, washstands, and candlestands) -72 color photographs, 17 black-and-white photographs -Information on furniture forms, nomenclature, and finishes -Details about more than twelve hundred nineteenth-century Georgia furniture craftsmen Also included in the book is a list of more than twelve hundred nineteenth-century Georgia furniture craftsmen, with key details of their lives and work. Griffin, provides information on furniture forms, nomenclature, and finishes. A new foreword by Deanne Levison looks at related publications and exhibits of the subsequent two decades. Photographs in the original edition of Neat Pieces were black-and-white here they are color. Each of them is described and illustrated in this book. The exhibit featured 126 exemplary pieces of furniture, including chairs, tables, huntboards, washstands, and candlestands. Neat Pieces first appeared as the companion volume to the Atlanta History Center's seminal 1983 exhibit of the same name. It is also prized by museums, antiques dealers and auction houses, and furniture appraisers, collectors, and makers. Today, this furniture is read by historians, folklorists, and other experts for clues into a past way of life. Simply designed, solidly constructed of local woods, and usually unadorned, such pieces were used daily by their owners for storage, sleeping, eating, and more. Neat Pieces is a detailed, extensively illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the "plain style" of furniture made and used by Georgians in the 1800s.
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