Community Corner
Speaking of Furniture -- Book Signing
Pritam & Eames will host a book signing of the
just-published Speaking of Furniture:
Conversations with 14 American Masters on Saturday, December 14, from
3:00-5:00 PM. The book, which is published by The Artist Book Foundation (TABf)
and distributed by Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. (D.A.P.) presents the
candid stories of 14 exceptionally gifted people who chose furniture as a
vehicle for artistic expression and, in turn, how their careers shaped a
powerful movement in 20th-century decorative arts. Based on interviews
conducted by Bebe and Warren Johnson, owners of Pritam & Eames, where all
of the artist-craftsmen have exhibited their work, the book is also a record of
the rise to national renown of a gallery started on a shoestring and sustained by
an untutored belief in an emerging field.
In his introductory essay, “Defining the Field”, Edward S.
Cooke, Jr., Charles F. Montgomery Professor of the History of Art, American
Decorative Arts and Material Culture, at Yale University, establishes the
defining features of the American studio furniture movement and places it
within its historical context.