Friends of the House: Furniture from China’s Towns and Villages - PEM Shop

Friends of the House: Furniture from China’s Towns and Villages

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$50.00

Product Description

This accompaniment to a past Peabody Essex Museum exhibition serves both as a tour through PEM’s excellent Chinese furniture collection and as an introduction to Chinese antiques for the beginning collector. Curator Nancy Berliner’s personal reflections of travels through rural China accompany examples of softwood, bamboo, and root furniture. Although inspired by classical forms, artisans often followed their own creative spark and the natural forms of the materials.

Product Details
With essays by Nancy Berliner, PEM's curator of Chinese art, and Sarah Handler.
Hardcover 133 pp. Illus.
Pub. Date: 1996