TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Christina M. AU - Andrianou,Dimitra AU - Campbell,Erin J. AU - Miller,Stephanie R. AU - Carroll,Elizabeth A. AU - Cordier,Sylvain AU - Houliston,Laura AU - Futter,Catherine AU - O'Mahony,Claire I.R. TI - A cultural history of furniture SN - 9781474206471 AV - NK2270 .C85 2022 PY - 2021/// CY - London ; New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Furniture KW - History KW - Furniture design KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Volume 1. A cultural history of furniture in antiquity / edited by Dimitra Andrianou -- Volume 2. A cultural history of furniture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Erin J. Campbell and Stephanie R. Miller -- Volume 3. A cultural history of furniture in the Age of Exploration / edited by Christina M. Anderson and Elizabeth Carroll -- Volume 4. A cultural history of furniture in Age of Enlightenment / edited by Sylvain Cordier -- Volume 5. A cultural history of furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry / edited by Christina M. Anderson and Catherine L. Futter -- Volume 6. A cultural history of furniture in the Modern Age / edited by Claire R. O'Mahony N2 - "A Cultural History of Furniture presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes spans 4,500 years of furniture in its physical, social and cultural context. Each volume discusses the same themes in its nine chapters: Designs and Motifs; Makers, Making and Materials; Types and Uses; the Domestic Setting; the Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations"-- ER -