Comments on: RWW 37: 18th Century Furniture Styles: A Trip to Winterthur http://rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog/2009/05/14/rww-37-17th-century-furniture-styles-a-trip-to-winterthur/ So many projects, so little time... Welcome to Woodworking A-D-D. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:49:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rockler Woodworking http://rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog/2009/05/14/rww-37-17th-century-furniture-styles-a-trip-to-winterthur/comment-page-1/#comment-1647 Rockler Woodworking Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:19:15 +0000 http://rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog/?p=171#comment-1647 Shannon-- Loved your two postings about Winterthur! Have never been there myself, but just got back from a weekend in Asheville, NC, where I toured the Biltmore Estate. Not nearly as heavy on the furniture as Winterthur, but fascinating along the same lines! Thanks for the mini-tours! Kim Adams Rockler Companies Shannon–
Loved your two postings about Winterthur! Have never been there myself, but just got back from a weekend in Asheville, NC, where I toured the Biltmore Estate. Not nearly as heavy on the furniture as Winterthur, but fascinating along the same lines! Thanks for the mini-tours!
Kim Adams
Rockler Companies

]]> By: Neil http://rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog/2009/05/14/rww-37-17th-century-furniture-styles-a-trip-to-winterthur/comment-page-1/#comment-1565 Neil Sun, 17 May 2009 00:46:54 +0000 http://rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog/?p=171#comment-1565 Shannon.........I enjoyed that walk through DuPonts pad. I was glad to hear you mention the abrupt lack of development of form. To me it is obvious I'm glad you witnessed it. Alot has to do with the struggle over furniture being viewed by museum curators as a Decorative Art or standing alone as Fine Art. I still believe the Studio movement is immature and stalled by one hit wonders who have clogged up creativity. The worst part is that it is being repeated again by your generation, that's what you need to discover next, but the one who finds it, won't be following or building backwards too much, study yes, build not so much, there is only so many pieces one can build in a life time. Alot has to do with economics, I'm of the belief that after this downturn, pent up demand and a supporting economy will last long enough for a furniture period to be established. People don't talk about it, and you won't see it at DuPonts Pad, but we did have a furniture Period in the 1980's. It was about materials, poke around Memphis Group, Robert Venturi, Ettore Sottsass. It was alot of experimenting, alot of fun and where the economy was strong enough to support a time frame where good product emerged. Chapin is that apprentice who hung out in Philly for a while before returning to the CT River Valley. Good ep.......Shannon............Neil Shannon………I enjoyed that walk through DuPonts pad.

I was glad to hear you mention the abrupt lack of development of form. To me it is obvious I’m glad you witnessed it. Alot has to do with the struggle over furniture being viewed by museum curators as a Decorative Art or standing alone as Fine Art. I still believe the Studio movement is immature and stalled by one hit wonders who have clogged up creativity. The worst part is that it is being repeated again by your generation, that’s what you need to discover next, but the one who finds it, won’t be following or building backwards too much, study yes, build not so much, there is only so many pieces one can build in a life time.

Alot has to do with economics, I’m of the belief that after this downturn, pent up demand and a supporting economy will last long enough for a furniture period to be established.

People don’t talk about it, and you won’t see it at DuPonts Pad, but we did have a furniture Period in the 1980’s. It was about materials, poke around Memphis Group, Robert Venturi, Ettore Sottsass. It was alot of experimenting, alot of fun and where the economy was strong enough to support a time frame where good product emerged.

Chapin is that apprentice who hung out in Philly for a while before returning to the CT River Valley.

Good ep…….Shannon…………Neil

]]> By: Shannon http://rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog/2009/05/14/rww-37-17th-century-furniture-styles-a-trip-to-winterthur/comment-page-1/#comment-1559 Shannon Fri, 15 May 2009 02:03:42 +0000 http://rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog/?p=171#comment-1559 Peter, You know, no matter how many times I tell myself how the numbering works, after all these years I still think 1770 something and associate it with 17th century even though the rational side of me knows that it's 18th century. Thanks for catching that blunder. By the way I enjoyed your recent article in Pop Wood. Peter,
You know, no matter how many times I tell myself how the numbering works, after all these years I still think 1770 something and associate it with 17th century even though the rational side of me knows that it’s 18th century. Thanks for catching that blunder. By the way I enjoyed your recent article in Pop Wood.

]]> By: Peter Follansbee http://rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog/2009/05/14/rww-37-17th-century-furniture-styles-a-trip-to-winterthur/comment-page-1/#comment-1558 Peter Follansbee Thu, 14 May 2009 23:34:23 +0000 http://rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog/?p=171#comment-1558 I'm glad you liked Winterthur. It's a great museum. but, don't you mean "Eighteenth-century" or even "ninenteenth-century" - surely not seventeenth-century stuff in your pictures... I’m glad you liked Winterthur. It’s a great museum. but, don’t you mean “Eighteenth-century” or even “ninenteenth-century” – surely not seventeenth-century stuff in your pictures…

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