Most Innovative Cabinetmaker?

[sapfm]

We thought it might be fun to use the forum's Poll feature from time to time, so here's the inaugural poll. You must be a registered forum user and logged in to cast a vote. If you have an idea for a poll question, submit it to [email protected].

In source material on American period furniture, the work of the Townsend and Goddard families is often cited as the perfect synthesis of design and craftsmanship in America. Albert Sack has said "if one piece were to be selected to represent the contribution of the American furniture craftsmen," the Townsend-Goddard six shell secretary "would have few rivals."

What do you think? Which of the craftsmen listed here best exemplify innovation in early American furniture design? Vote for only one. The results will be posted next week.

 

[msiemsen]

This is like asking which type of doughnuts I like best. They are all so good.
Mike

 

[sbachner]

Well...fresh Crispy Cremes are hard to beat.  Although Entenmans are good and so are Dunkins and so are.....

 

[Jeff L Headley]

I like eclairs myself. I am sorry but I guess there wasn't any furniture made of any consequence south of Balitimore or am I mistaken. My real vote goes to the man down the road. I thought I might stir thing up. Jeff

 

[Mark Arnold]

Jeff,

Well, I knew it was only a matter of time before someone pointed out this glaring omission. The truth of the matter is that I chose to be selective in the poll options. The choices were guided more by popular conception and the preponderance of literature on the listed makers than by a deliberate Northern bias.  So while I risk being compared to Joseph Downs who proclaimed at the 1949 Williamsburg Antiques Forum that "little of artistic merit was made South of Baltimore" (<i>The Magazine Antiques</i>, March 2005, p. 93), the Yankees Dunlap and Chapin, every bit as innovative as Elfe, were not included either.

I also ask that nothing be inferred by my preference for Boston creams!

Mark

 

[Mark Arnold]

This is the last day to cast your vote in the above poll. Results will be posted tomorrow.
Remember, you have to be logged in to vote. Send your ideas for the next poll to [email protected].

Mark

 

[sapfm]

The results of the Most Innovative Cabinetmaker poll are now available. Are these results surprising to anyone? Why or why not? What informed your vote?

Watch for the next poll to be released soon on a new board called Polls!

 

[John McAlister]

How and where can we find the results of the poll?
John McAlister

 

[John McAlister]

Scratch my last post. I found it!!
John McAlister

 

[paul rulli]

Arguably not the most "innovative" but Samuel Mac deserves at least one vote!  Egad, we are all so opionated!

 

[msiemsen]

I wonder what type of doughnut is the most period appropriate?

 

[Kay]

I wonder what type of doughnut is the most period appropriate?

I’m thinking…Boston cream filled, served up on an open talon ball & claw Newport tea table, of course.