Furniture design papers, 1920s-1970.

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Furniture design papers, 1920s-1970.

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A small group of furniture templates and drawings from the Attwill Furniture Company; scrapbooks with pictures; and magazines and dealers' catalogs which were collected by J. Sanger Attwill for design inspiration. One scrapbook contains mirror designs; another focuses on interiors inspired by the Colonial period. The collection contains little original material, rather it focuses on the kinds of publications a furniture designer collected for inspiration. The Winterthur Museum owns a collection of furniture templates from the Attwill Furniture Company.

3 boxes, 4 volumes : ill.

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Attwill Furniture Company (Lynn, Mass.)

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Attwill, Joseph Sanger

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J. Sanger Attwill of Lynn, Massachusetts began working in the furniture business in 1927. His compnay, Attwill Furniture Company, specialized in custom made reproductions and also offered an interior design service. A mainstay of his business during the hard times of the Great Depression and World War II was restoration work and dealing in secondhand furniture. After the war, business improved, but by 1970, most of his work was in interior decoration and furniture restoration and refinishing, ra...