This Shaker rocker and side table show off the style’s essential design elements including the ladderback and brightly colored cloth tape seat on the chair and straight gently curved legs of both pieces. “Do your work as if you had a thousand years to live and as if you were to die tomorrow.” The above [...]

Furniture by and attributed to Duncan Phyfe, including a secretary-bookcase beneath an oil by George Caleb Bingham, fills the Green Room of the White House. Duncan Phyfe. Taken aside the question of how his last name should be spelled (Phyfe is correct by the way), his style of furniture has come to be instantly recognizable [...]