www.philamuseum.org      Philadelphia Museum in Pennsylvania; An excellent collection of important high-style early American furniture.

www.metmuseum.org      Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Important collection of American furniture (and all sorts of other incredible stuff).

www.mfa.org      Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Exceptional furniture

Links to Other Craftsmen and Artists:

www.betsykriegsalm.com       Magnificent Academic "School Girl" Art from the Federal Period by nationally recognized decorative artist Betsy Salm. L.L. Hammond creates many of the furniture pieces that Ms. Salm decorates in this little known historic style.


Highly Recommended books:

New Fine Points of Furniture, 1993, Albert Sack, Crown Publishers, in print

Fine Points of Furniture, 1950, Albert Sack, Crown Publishers, out of print

The Antiques Directory-Furniture, 1995, Miller, Crescent Books, in print (I think)

Furniture Treasury, 1928, Wallace Nutting, Macmillan publisher, out of print

American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art-Late Colonial Period, 1985, Heckscher, Random House, out of print

Southern Furniture 1680-1830, The Colonial Williamsburg Collection, 1997, Hurst and Prown, Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, in print

The Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1794, George Hepplewhite, Dover Publications, in print

The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director, 1762, Thomas Chippendale, Dover Publications, in print

The Cabinet-maker and upholsterer's Drawing-book, 1793-1802, Thomas Sheraton, Dover Publications, in print