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Born 1745 • Aberdeen • Scotland
Died March 5, 1795 (aged 50) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
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John Rowe Townsend
British author
John Goddard
American cabinetmaker
William Savery
American cabinetmaker
Phyfe, Duncan: card table
Duncan Phyfe
American furniture designer
Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
Thomas Chippendale
British cabinetmaker
Thomas Chippendale, II
British cabinetmaker
Thomas Goddard
American cabinetmaker
Stephen Goddard
American cabinetmaker
Job Townsend
American cabinetmaker
Christopher Townsend
American cabinetmaker
Gustav Stickley
American designer
John Henry Belter
American cabinetmaker
McIntire, Samuel: Derby Summer House
Samuel McIntire
American architect and craftsman
David Roentgen
European cabinetmaker
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
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
Design for a sofa by George Hepplewhite, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788).
George Hepplewhite
British cabinetmaker
Adam Weisweiler
French cabinetmaker
John Cobb
English cabinetmaker