The American sofa table.

The Magazine Antiques | May 1, 1999| | Copyright

In 1950 Albert Sack published "one of the few sofa tables produced in America," a New York example in the style of Duncan Phyfe.(1) Sixteen years later Charles E Montgomery declared sofa tables the "rarest of all American drop-leaf tables." He added that "all American examples known to the writer have pedestal bases and were made in New York."(2) Although they were not the first to publish this form, Sack and Montgomery established the interpretive framework through which subsequent writers still view sofa tables.(3) The present study draws on references to some fifty surviving ...

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