irish country interiors furniture

books:

Irish Country Furniture, 1700-1950

2 reviews
Claudia Kinmonth

Yale University Press, 1995

This is the definitive reference book of Irish Furniture.
I found this book to be a wonderful resource detailing Irish Furniture and it's place in the cultural history of Ireland. There are numerous photographs which are very helpful in realizing the variety of styles within a given category of furniture.

Irish Rural Interiors in Art
Claudia Kinmonth

Yale University Press, 2006

This book offers a fascinating view of many aspects of Irish rural life from the eighteenth to the mid twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 images, many of which have not been published before, the book evokes the hardships and celebrations of laborers and farmers, men and women, the old and the young as depicted in oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, postcards, and cartoons. Most of the illustrations show people engaged ...