Opening Saturday, May 3, 2008
Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture

Drawing on 60 examples of furniture from Historic Deerfield's permanent collection--including masterworks by Duncan Phyfe, Samuel McIntyre, and others -- this new exhibition offers an accessible and imaginative format for audiences to learn about the raw materials, tools, hand skills, designs and ornamental techniques that woodworkers used between 1675 and 1840. A wide array of furniture forms from tables and chairs to clocks and looking glasses have been assembled by Curator of Furniture Joshua Lane using innovative "exploded view" display techniques and before and after views of conservation treatments.

This long-term exhibition, with changing elements, will be on view through 2013.