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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Joseph A. Bailly, Daniel Pabst, Gustav Stickley, Herter Brothers, Roy Mcmakin, Goddard and Townsend, Charles-Honoré Lannuier, Eliphalet Chapin, Lambert Hitchcock, Nimura and Sato, John Houshmand, Francis Trumble, Stewart Wurtz, Duncan Phyfe, Alexander Roux, William Showalter, Samuel Loomis. Excerpt:Alexander Roux (1813 1886) was a French -trained ébéniste , or cabinetmaker , who emigrated to the United States in the 1830s. He opened a shop in New York City in 1837. The business grew quickly: by the 1850s he employed 120 craftsmen in his shop and introduced then-new industrial technologies, such as steam -powered saws . Roux specialized in the ornate Rococo Revival style, but practiced many others. His work is highly sought by collectors, with larger and more complex pieces fetching large sums. One of his sideboards was featured in a 2000 exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art . Websites (URLs online) References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Game table, c. 1815, mahogany, gesso, gilding, and ormolu mounts. Charles-Honoré Lannuier, French-born American cabinetmaker (1779 1819), lived and worked in New York City . In Lannuier's time, the style of his furniture was described as "French Antique." Today his work is classified primarily as Federal furniture , Neoclassical , or American Empire . Early life and influences Charles-Honoré Lannuier was born outside of Paris in Chantilly, France, on June 27, 1779, son to Michel-Cyrille Lannuier, an innkeper, and his wife, Marie-Geneviève Malice. From childhood, Charles-Honoré Lannuier was influenced by his older brother, Nicolas-Louis-Cyrille Lannuier, and an uncle, Jean-Baptiste Cochois, successful cabinetmakers selling furniture in pre-Revolutionary Paris. Both relatives contributed to Lannuier's tra... ... Read more

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Cecil B. DeMille was one of Hollywood's greatest directors, his name synonymous with epic movies, where casts ofthousands, spectacular sets and some of Hollywood's most famous stars dazzled the public. He was the quintessential director complete with riding boots, breeches, riding crop and megaphones, the latter to make sure no one missed his directions. His filmography of 70 films spans the Hollywood timeline from the inception of the movie industry with silents to the mid 1950s where his epics included sound, technicolor and wide screens. He was not always pleasant or easy to work with, and he was not necessarily the greatest director of actors, but his films were so highly regarded by the public few lost money. The DeMille story is essentially the history of the American movie industry from its earliest days in Los Angeles where films were made in barns and shown on flimsy screens--sometimes plain white sheets--to the harsh realities of the McCarthy hearings on Hollywood in the 1950s. The New York Times summed up Cecil B. DeMille as "the Phineas T. Barnum of the movies—a showman extraordinary.” [1,535-word Titans of Fortune biographical profile] ... Read more

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