Blossfeldt, Karl and Karl Nierendorf. Urformen der Kunst : photographische Pflanzenbilder. Berlin: E. Wasmuth, 1929. Print.

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The folios in this collection represent furniture design, interior design, and architecture of and before the time of the Phoenix Furniture Company. Included in several of the folios are small sketches, notations, page markings, larger scale drawings, and other items that suggest that these were the working folios for the furniture designers at the Phoenix Furniture Company and possibly the other companies that came to be associated with the Phoenix... Furniture Company.

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Dates

1837-1929

Extent

From the Collection: 21 Linear Feet (36 boxes)

Language of Materials

German

Physical Storage Information

Box: 17 (mixed materials)

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Grand Rapids History Center Repository

https://www.grpl.org/history/

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Collection organization

Phoenix Furniture Company folios

Schottmuller, Frida. Wohnungskultur Und Mobel Der Italienischen Renaissance. Stuttgart: J. Hoffmann, 1921. Print.

Sluyterman, K. Huisraad en Binnenhuis in Nederland. [S.l.: s.n.], 1918. Print.

Shaw, Henry. Details of Elizabethan Architecture. London: W. Pickering, 1839. Print.

De Ricci, Seymour. Louis XVI Furniture. London: W. Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913. Print.

Guerinet, Armand. Materiaux et Documents d'Art Décoratif. Paris: Armand Guerinet, 1---. Print.

Richardson, Charles James. Fragments and Details of Architecture, Decoration and Furniture of the Elizabethan Period: ninety-two plates selected from "Studies from old English mansions"- 4th series. New York: W. Helburn, 1848. Print.

Ward, James. Historic Ornament: Treatise on Decorative Art and Architectural Ornament. 2 Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1897. Print.

Wheeler, George Owen. Old English Furniture from the 16th to the 19th Centuries – Second Edition. London: L.U. Gill, 1909. Print.

Schmitz, Hermann. Das Mobelwerk. Berlin: E. Wasmuth, 1929. Print.

Talbert, Bruce J. and Henry Shaw. Fashionable furniture; a collection of three hundred and fifty original designs representing cabinet work, upholstery and decoration, by various designers. New York: J. O'Kane [188-?]. Print.

Raguenet, A. Matériaux et documents d'architecture et de sculpture. [Paris? : s.n., 19--?]. Print.

Warne, E. J. Furniture mouldings; full size selections of moulded details on English furniture from 1574-1820. London, E. Benn, 1923. Print.

Hunter, George Leland. Decorative furniture : a picture book of the beautiful forms of all ages and all periods … Grand Rapids, Mich.: Good Furniture Magazine ; Dean-Hicks Co., 1923. Print.

Sadoul, Charles. Le Mobilier Lorrain. Paris: Ch. Massin, [s.d.]. Print. Bound together with: Champier, Victor. Le Mobilier Flamand. Paris: Massin, 1926. Print.

Interiors of the Italian Renaissance. New York: William Helburn, Inc., [1916?]. Print.

Speltz, Alexander. The coloured ornament of all historical styles : with coloured plates from own paintings in water colours. Leipzig: K.F. Koehler's Antiquarium, 1915. Print.

Bury, T. T. Remains of ecclesiastical woodwork. London: John Weale, 1847. Print.

Zweig, Marianne. Wiener Bürgermöbel aus Theresianischer und Josephinischer Zeit : (1740-1790). Wien: Kunstverlag A. Schroll, 1922. Print.

Illustrations of Furniture. London: Maple and Co., [1913?]. Print.

Richardson, Charles James. Architectural remains of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. London: Charles James Richardson, 1840. Print.

Richardson, Charles James. Observations on the architecture of England during the reigns of queen Elizabeth and king James I. London: John Weale, 1837. Print.

Angus, Charles. Angus' Practical Stair Railing. Grand Rapids, Mi: Charles Angus, [nd.]. Print.

Bertin, L. and L. Compagnon. Complets de Tous Styles. Dourdan: E. Thézard, 1900. Print.

Metman, Louis and Gaston Briere. Le Bois. Paris: D.A. Longuet, [1905-

Tanner, Henry. English Interior Woodwork of the XVI, XVII, & XVIIIth Centuries. London: B. T. Bastford, 1902. Print.

Historical art furniture : specimens of English, French, German and Italian workmanship from the Middle Ages, Renaissance-Period, and epochs of Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI. New York: Helburn & Hagen, [1880?]. Print.

Schmidt, Otto and Joh W. Deininger. Kunstschätze aus Tirol ... Heliogravuren nach photographischen aufnahmen von Otto Schmidt in Wien. Wien: A. Schroll & Co., 1894-1902. Print.

Sluyterman, K. and Arthur Jacob Hendrik Cornette. Interieurs Anciens en Belgique. La Haye: M. Nijhoff, 1912-13. Print.

Rowe, Eleanor. Studies from the Museums. Wood Carvings from the South Kensington Museum – Folio I. London: R. Sutton & Co., 1889. Print.

Rowe, Eleanor. Studies from the Museums. Wood Carvings from the South Kensington Museum – Folio II. London: R. Sutton & Co., 1889. Print.

Charles, Richard. The cabinet maker: a journal of designs. For the use of upholsterers, cabinet makers, decorators, carvers, gilders, and others. London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1868. Print.

Modern Surface Ornament. New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 1877. Print.

Guerinet, Armand. Broderies Chinoises Indiennes, Toiles de Genes & de Jouy. Paris: Guérinet, [n.d.]. Print. Loose pages / not bound

Guerinet, Armand. Materiaux & Documents d'Art Décoratif – 2nd Serie. Paris: Armand Guerinet, [1---]. Print.

Guerinet, Armand. Materiaux & Documents d'Art Décoratif - 3rd Serie. Paris: Armand Guerinet, [1---]. Print.

Schmid, Charles. La Décoration des Interieurs au XVIII Siecle. Paris: Librairie Générale de l'Architecture & des Arts Décoratifs, [nd?]. Print.

Von Hefner-Alteneck, Jakob Heinrich. Ornamente der Holzsculptur von 1450 bis 1820. Frankfurt am Main: Heinrich Keller, 1881. Print.

Schoy, Auguste. L'art architectural, décoratif, industriel et somptuaire de l'époque Louis XVI/ 2. Paris: C. Claesen, 1868. Print.

Maincent, E. and E. Zamor. L'Art du Tourneur. Paris: Maincent, E.,1869. Print.

Oeuvres de Watteau. Paris: Armand Guerinet, [nd.]. Print.

Oeuvres de Gormand. Paris: Armand Guerinet, [nd.]. Print.

Robert Sash and Door Company and J. R. Eaton & Sons Limited. Universal Millwork Design Book No. 20. [Dubuque, Ia. : Universal Catalogue Bureau, ©1920]. Print.

Erixon, Sigurd. 1925. Stockholm: Nordiska Museet, 1925.

von Bode, Wilhelm and Mary E. Herrick. Italian Renaissance Furniture. New York: W. Helburn, 1921. Print.

von Bode, Wilhelm. Die italienischen Hausmöbel der Renaissance ... 2. Auflage. Leipzig: 1920. Print.

De Jonge, Caroline Henriette and Willem Vogelsang. Hollandische Mobel und Raumkunst 1650-1780. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1922. Print.

American Seating Company Catalog number thirty-six: Furniture and Interior Woodwork for Churches: Pews, Pulpits, Altars, Railings, and Ecclesiastical Cabinetwork. American Seating Company, 1925. Print.

Gotch, J. Alfred. Early Renaissance Architecture in England; A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625. London: B.T. Batsford, 1901. Print.

Ortwein, August. Deutsche Renaissance: ein Auswahl von 300 Tafeln aus dem grossen sammelwerke – Vol. I. Leipzig : E. A. Seemann, 1893. Print.

Ortwein, August. Deutsche Renaissance: ein Auswahl von 300 Tafeln aus dem grossen sammelwerke / von Ortwein und Scheffers – Vol. II. Leipzig : E. A. Seemann, 1893. Print.

Wenham, Edward. The Collector's Guide to Furniture Designs (English and American) from the Gothic to the Nineteenth Century. New York: Collectors Press, 1928. Print.

Monckton, James H. Stair-building in its various forms : and the new one-

Strange, Thomas Arthur. An Historical Guide to French Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork, and Allied Arts during the last half of the Seventeenth Century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth. London : McCorquodale & Co. ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [19--?]. Print.

Ellwood, G. M. English Furniture and Decoration 1680 to 1800. Stuttgart: J. Hoffman, 1909. Print.

Schopp, Alexander. Alte volkstümliche Möbel und Raumkunst aus Norddeutschland. Elberfeld : Schöpp, [1920]. Print.

Blossfeldt, Karl and Karl Nierendorf. Urformen der Kunst : photographische Pflanzenbilder. Berlin: E. Wasmuth, 1929. Print.

Hirth, Georg. Das Deutsche Zimmer der Gothik und Renaissance, des Barock-, Rococo- und Zopfstils. München; Leipzig: [Hirth], 1886. Print.

Watteau, Antoine, et al. Watteau, Lancret und Pater. Wien : Gerlach & Schenk, [19--?]. Print.

Schoy, Auguste. L'art architectural, décoratif, industriel et somptuaire de l'époque Louis XVI / 1. Liège: Claesen, 1868. Print.

Gurlitt, Cornelius. Das Barock- und Rococo-Ornament Deutschlands. Berlin : E. Wasmuth, 1889. Print.

Lessing, Julius. Holzschnitzereien des Fuenfzeihnten und Sechszehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin: E.Wasmuth, 1882. Print.

Charvet, Alberto. Raccolta pratica e artistica d'ammobigliamenti completi in diversi stili. Torino: A. Charvet-Grassi, [1890?]. Print.

Richardson, Charles James. Fragments and Details of Architecture, Decoration and Furniture of the Elizabethan Period: ninety-two plates selected from "Studies from old English mansions"- 3rd series . New York: W. Helburn, 1845. Print.

Richardson, Charles James. Fragments and Details of Architecture, Decoration and Furniture of the Elizabethan Period: ninety-two plates selected from "Studies from old English mansions"- 2nd series. New York: W. Helburn, 1842. Print.

Small, John William. Scottish Woodwork of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. London: Stirling Mackay. 1878. Print.

Pergolesi, Michel Angelo and Geo. H. Polley & Co. Eighteenth Century Architectural Ornamentation, Furniture and Decoration. Boston and New York: G.H. Polley & Co. [n.d.]. Print.

Timms & Webb. Die Fünfunddreißig Mobelstyle. Darmstadt : A. Koch, [189-?]. Print.

Richardson, Charles James. Fragments and Details of Architecture, Decoration and Furniture of the Elizabethan Period: ninety-two plates selected from "Studies from old English mansions". New York: W. Helburn, 1841. Print.

Macquoid, Percy. A History of English Furniture. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1906. Print.

Germanische Frühkunst/ 2, Tafel 61-120. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1907. Print.

Chippendale, Thomas. Vorbilder fuer Kunst- und Möbeltischler im Gothischen, Chinesischen und Rococo-Stil. Berlin : E. Wasmuth, [1890?]. Print.

Chippendale, Thomas. The Gentleman and Cabinet-

Vredeman de Vriese, Paul. Plusieurs Menuiseries. Bruxelles: Trigt, 1869. Print.

The New Note in Furnishings. London: Waring & Gillow Ltd., [1901?]. Print.

Some examples of Warings Furniture. London: Waring & Gillow, [1900?]. Print.

Foley, Edwin. The Book of Decorative Furniture. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. Print.

Pugin, Augustus. Gothische Ornamente. Berlin; New York: B. Hessling, 1896. Print.

Ortwein, August. Deutsche Renaissance: ein Auswahl von 300 Tafeln aus dem grossen sammelwerke / von Ortwein und Scheffers. Leipzig : E. A. Seemann, 1893. Print.

Comment discerner les Styles : Enseigné par l'image. [II.], Le Mobilier : Transformations progressives de l'Antiquité au XIX. Siècle. Mille Reproductions documentaires, Armoires, Bahuts, Cabinets, Cadres, Coffres, Commodes, Consoles, Crédences, Sièges, Tables, etc. Paris: Rouveyre, [ca. 1900]. Print.

De Forest, Lockwood. Indian Architecture and Ornament. Boston: G.H. Polley & Co., 1887. Print.

Hessling, Egon and Walter Hessling. Louis XIV Möbel des Louvre und des Musee des Arts Decoratifs. Berlin, New York [etc.]: B. Hessling, g.m.b.h., 1909. Print.

Wytsman, P. Flemish Interiors and Furniture. New York: Paul Wenzel, 1898. Print.

Dupont-Auberville, M. L'Ornament des Tissus. Ducher et Cie, 1877. Print.

Wood, Henry. Designs for Furniture. London: [s.n., 1845?]. Print.

Meuble De Luxe. Paris: Armand Guerinet, 1906. Print. [Not in original order. The folio has been reordered and put into folders, presumably by Phoenix Furniture Company]

A. Hepplewhite and Co. Cabinet-Makers. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide or Repository of Designs For Every Article of Household Furniture, in the Newest and Most Approved Taste: Third Edition. London: Batsford, 1897.

English Household Furniture. Boston: Bates & Guild Co., 1900. Print.

The Georgian Period: being Measured Drawings of Colonial Work. [New York] American Architect & Building News, 1898-1902. Print.

Hunter, George Leland. Italian Furniture and Interiors. New York: W. Helburn Inc., 1918. Print.

Hunter, George Leland. Italian Furniture and Interiors. New York: W. Helburn Inc., 1918. Print.

Nash, Joseph. The Mansions of England in the Olden Time Vol. 1 First Series. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1869. Print.

Nash, Joseph. The Mansions of England in the Olden Time Second Series. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1870. Print.

Nash, Joseph. The Mansions of England in the Olden Time Vol. III. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1871. Print.

Nash, Joseph. The Mansions of England in the Olden Time Vol. IV. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1872. Print.

Loose Plate found in Huisraad en Binnenhuis in Nederland. (Box 1)

Loose papers found in “Stair-building in its Various Forms” (Box 16)

Loose papers found in “The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director” (Box 23)

Loose paper found in “English Furniture and Decoration 1680-1800” (Box 16)

Loose papers found in “The Cabinet Maker” (Box 10)

Loose paper found in “Comment Discerner les Styles” (Box 26)

Loose paper found in “Italian Renaissance Furniture” (Box 14)

Loose paper found in “Die Fünfunddreißig Möbelstyle” (Box 21)

Loose paper found in American Seating Company Catalog (Box 14)

Bajot, Edouard. French styles in furniture and architecture : 1500 examples of structural and ornamental details of original work in Gothic, Francois I, Henri II, Henri III, Henri IV, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Empire, Modern. New York: P. Wenzel, [19--]. Print.

Profils et Tournages XIV Siècle Epoche Gothique Plates 1-60 –Loose in a folder

The Art-Worker – Volume 1 / 1878 – Loose in a folder

Loose paper found in Fragments and Details of Architecture” (Box 22)

Loose paper found in A History of English Furniture (Box 22)