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Born c.1710
Died 1778
Movement / Style Neoclassical art
Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
Thomas Chippendale
British cabinetmaker
Design for a sofa by George Hepplewhite, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788).
George Hepplewhite
British cabinetmaker
David Roentgen
European cabinetmaker
Phyfe, Duncan: card table
Duncan Phyfe
American furniture designer
Design for a library table by Thomas Sheraton, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805)
Thomas Sheraton
English furniture designer
Gerrit Jensen
British artist
Thomas Chippendale, II
British cabinetmaker
William Vile
English cabinetmaker
John Rowe Townsend
British author
Christopher Townsend
American cabinetmaker
Job Townsend
American cabinetmaker
Thomas Goddard
American cabinetmaker
John Goddard
American cabinetmaker
Stephen Goddard
American cabinetmaker
Cartel clock with Louis XIV clockcase by Charles Cressent; in the Wallace Collection, London
Charles Cressent
French cabinetmaker
Thonet, Michael: bentwood chair
Michael Thonet
Austrian furniture maker
Adam Weisweiler
French cabinetmaker
Gustav Stickley
American designer
John Henry Belter
American cabinetmaker
Majorelle, Louis
Louis Majorelle
French cabinetmaker