Chippendale is the best known style of American antique furniture. Popular with antique collectors for three centuries, this style has been described as French inspiration with English sturdiness.

"Chippendale's Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker" reveals how Thomas Chippendale, an 18th century artisan of humble origins, came up with a new way of designing, marketing and ...

The Chippendale style, says Leslie Keno, director of the American Furniture Department at Sotheby’s, is an outgrowth of Rococo, Chinese and Gothic influences. The pieces, fashioned mostly of ...

The book is featured in the exhibit "Chippendale's Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker," which runs through Jan. 27, 2019, at the museum in New York.

Chippendale's name lives on, of course, in references to furniture made in styles he pioneered - rococo, chinoiserie etc - but actual pieces documented as having come from the great man's London ...

V&A director Tristram Hunt said: “It is exceptionally rare to find Thomas Chippendale furniture as well documented as that at Harewood House – the most lavish commission Chippendale ever received.

Granted, it’s not just any desk — it’s an 18th-century Chippendale mahogany slant-front desk that he’ll be examining during an online “For the Love of Furniture” program at 7 p.m. Dec. 30.

V&A director Tristram Hunt said: “It is exceptionally rare to find Thomas Chippendale furniture as well documented as that at Harewood House – the most lavish commission Chippendale ever received. “Of ...