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18TH-CENTURY AMERICAN FURNITURE: NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS, 1966-1976

Nonetheless, the furniture made in the American colonies is readily distinguishable from its English prototypes. Different forms were preferred, ecorative motifs were employed in different ways, and different kinds of woods were used.1 But there was a much more fundamental distinction, one which explains why 18th-century American furniture defies stylistic generalization. In England, there was one style center, London, from which all fashions emanated. In the colonies there were simultaneously several independent style centers Boston, Newport, New York, and Philadelphia and each one was more directly tied to London than to each other. This resulted in there being no single colonial style of American furniture at any given time.