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Texas Furniture, Volume Two

Texas Furniture, Volume Two

$60.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

by Lonn Taylor (Author), David B. Warren (Author), Don Carleton (Introduction) The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas furniture and its makers. After more than a decade of investigation, they published Texas Furniture in 1975, and it quickly became the…