Explaining why he created 175 period rooms after inheriting his family home at Winterthur, Henry Francis DuPont wrote, "I didn't believe the early-American arts and crafts had been given the recognition they deserved, so I assembled examples of architecture, furniture, and widely divergent early-American materials of all sorts to show America as it had been."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0912724439
ISBN13:9780912724430
Release Date:June 1998
Publisher:Winterthur Museum, Incorporated, The, Henry Francis duPont
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